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Responding to international outcry and eager to regulate the beef trust, President Roosevelt commissioned Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds to investigate Sinclair’s claims. They returned with evidence that Sinclair’s findings were true.
The report shows that the stock yards and packing houses are not kept even reasonably clean, and that the method of handling and preparing food products is uncleanly and dangerous to health.
NEILL-REYNOLDS REPORT CONFIRMED. President Sends to Congress Documents Concerning Packing House Scandal. In a Letter to Chairman Wadsworth, of House Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Roosevelt Quotes from a Reliable Correspondent at Chicago, Who Corroborates the Stories of Filth aud Disease in Packing Plants. Washington, D. C.
Jun 13, 2012 · Neill and James Bronson Reynolds, a reformer from New York City, submitted the Neill-Reynolds report, and by June, the President signed Congress' meat inspection bill and the Pure Food Law.
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Charles P. Neill was born on December 12, 1865, at Rock Island, Illinois. His parents James and Julia Neill had emigrated from Ireland in 1850. The family moved to Austin, Texas in 1871, where Charles' father, James, practiced law. Charles was employed as a bank messenger from 1876 to 1885. He attended the University of Notre Dame from 1885 to 1888...
President William Howard Taft reappointed Charles in 1909. Woodrow Wilson appointed him Commissioner of Labor Statistics in 1913 when the Department of Commerce and Labor was divided and the Bureau of Labor Statistics was established in the new Department of Labor. Neill provided federal mediation services in railroad labor disputes and he drafted ...
After his departure from the Department of Labor later in 1913, the skilled arbitrator was employed by Southeastern Railways from 1915 to 1939 to handle labor issues. He also served on the United States Railroad Board of Adjustments from 1919 to 1921. He was interested in industrial safety and workmen's compensation laws. Some of his charitable wor...
The Charles Patrick Neill Papers consist of seven manuscript boxes and one reel of microfilm from the years 1893 to 1956. His personal papers include correspondence, tax information (1940–1946), clippings and a scrapbook (1893–1903).Neill's professional papers contain correspondence (1904–1942) written while performing one of his various positions ...
The beginnings of child labor legislation in certain states: a comparative study (1910)Some ethical aspects of the labor movement (1908)WASHINGTON, June 4. -- With a promise that further revelations will be made, President Roosevelt sent to Congress today the first section of the Neill-Reynolds meat inspection report,...
Apr 21, 2023 · 1. Quarterback Drama! Last year's NFL Draft saw just one quarterback taken in the first round (Kenny Pickett went to the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 20th pick) but it should be a lot different...
