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That was really it. That was what made him, and the better employers in the dry cleaning business, urge the code. Of course, it created great animosity among the smaller, shoe-string, investment type of employers who didn't have good plant conditions and didn't want to lay out the money to have them because they didn't have enough capital readily available to make a good factory. One of the tragic things that you see when you go into this is that the small employer, who is doing business on his own capital or a very small amount of capital borrowed from his friends, which is the old-fashioned typical American type of business man, getting into business with his own savings, and so forth, is always, when you come to examine the situation, the greatest offender against whatever laws are set up for the protection of life, health and safety. He is the one who holds back longest from complying. He's the one who doesn't want any regulations, because he's got to put his capital out, whereas the big concerns with big capital can do all right. The DuPonts coming into a chemical industry have plenty of money. If you issue an order on them, they conform. It's cheaper for them to obey the order than it is to hire a lot of lawyers to argue it out. They'll do whatever you tell them to do, with almost no holding back. Whereas, the small man trying to operate an industry that has the same hazards in it is





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