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 vitality has been continuous and heavy, and he most needs sleep in order to recuperate. This continues indefinitely—each succeeding day being but a repetition of the former."

And in his diary, Lieut. Walker showed:

"That the complaint was not so much that there wasn't some bit of an evening before you, but that there was no untired time when you were good for anything—work or play. When you had sat about for perhaps an hour after supper, you recoverd enough to crave recreation. A movie was the very peak to which you could stir yourself. There were men who went further. I know a young Croat in Pittsburgh who attended night school after the 12-Hour Day. But he is the only one of all the steel-workers I met who attempted such heroism. And he had to stop after a few weeks."

Testifying before the Senate Committee, Father Kazinski very ably exposed the damaging effect of the two-shift system on the intellectual life of the worker. Said the Father:

"We have an Americanizing course project taking place, and they have been instructed to go and attend these night schools. They are not a very great success for the simple reason that the men are over-worked, working from ten to thirteen hours a day; and they do not feel like going to the schools and depriving their families of their own company and society even after these hours, these long hours. Sunday—they have none, for most of them go off to work."

Finally, the Inter-Church investigators, analyzing the report on workers' education made by A. H. Wyman of the Carnegie Steel Company of Pittsburgh at the 1919 session of the National Association of Corporation Schools have shown that:

"Nearly fifty per cent of the startingly small group of 341 enrolled out of the tens of thousands in the district dropped out for reasons connected with hours."

The ravages of the rapacious Steel Barons are not limited to the fathers and mothers. Profits take a terrific toll amongst the children of the steel workers. In the steel areas the infant mortality rate is appalling.

The noted surgeon, B. S. Warren, and government statistician, Sydenstricker, in Public Health Bulletin No. 76, have brought to light the following astounding situation: