The Indianapolis Journal

The Senate Sub-Committee's Work.

New York, Sept. 28.—Before the Senate committee on labor and education, to-day, Charles Siedler, of a tobacco house, said his firm employed about 4,000 persons, and now pays wages amounting annually to $250,000. They had paid as high as $400,000 in one year. About 40 per cent. of the employes are girls. Most of their employees live in tenements. Unfortunately they are improvident, and spend their wages as they earn them. There are 860,000,000 pounds of chewing tobacco manufactured annually in this country. All who are injured or become ill in their employ are treated without charge. He favored the establishment of industrial schools. Many employers, he said, are turning their minds toward enhancing the interests of their employes socially and otherwise.

Senator Blair said that in his opinion the schools of twenty-five years ago were much better conducted than now. He predicted that unless the North woke up the Southern schools would far exceed them in educational progress.

The committee adjourned to Monday.