1 There was a barrel factory, and a boiler-repair shop.
2 She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
3 She had taken the place of an Irishwoman who had been working in that factory ever since any one could remember.
4 But only ten days after she had joined, Marija's canning factory closed down, and that blow quite staggered them.
5 Marija was in despair, for there was still no word about the reopening of the canning factory, and her savings were almost entirely gone.
6 The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.
7 She was in another canning factory, and her work was to trim the meat of those diseased cattle that Jurgis had been told about not long before.
8 However that might be, the known facts were that a few weeks before the factory closed, Marija had been cheated out of her pay for three hundred cans.
9 He decided that he would first try to get work, and so he put in the rest of the day wandering here and there among factories and warehouses without success.
10 In the late spring the canning factory started up again, and so once more Marija was heard to sing, and the love-music of Tamoszius took on a less melancholy tone.
11 There was a building to which the grease was piped, and made into soap and lard; and then there was a factory for making lard cans, and another for making soap boxes.
12 With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
13 He began the long, weary round of factories and warehouses, tramping all day, from one end of the city to the other, finding everywhere from ten to a hundred men ahead of him.
14 He met this man on his way to work in the giant factories of the Harvester Trust; and his friend told him to come along and he would speak a good word for him to his boss, whom he knew well.
15 He tried in stores and offices, in restaurants and hotels, along the docks and in the railroad yards, in warehouses and mills and factories where they made products that went to every corner of the world.
16 Not only did he own the dump, but he owned the brick factory as well, and first he took out the clay and made it into bricks, and then he had the city bring garbage to fill up the hole, so that he could build houses to sell to the people.
17 Only a month after Marija had become a beef-trimmer the canning factory that she had left posted a cut that would divide the girls' earnings almost squarely in half; and so great was the indignation at this that they marched out without even a parley, and organized in the street outside.
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