"Are there differences in the levels of work pay?"

"There are. But we are trying to raise wages for men as well as for women. Anything more?"

"How high is the pay?"

"It varies. There are 24 different categories in the Armour slaughterhouses."

The conversation was obviously lagging. It seems we were rubbing salt in the sensitive areas of "free enterprise business."

"It's that way not only at Armour. It's the same in other companies" said the other worker, a man getting on in years who had previously said nothing.

A piercing glance from Spear forces him to stop in the middle of a sentence. Ted Spear looks impatiently at his watch. We were given exactly 49 minutes to become acquainted with the "largest meat business in the world."

"We are in San Francisco," exulted jolly Walter Clement. "It is the most beautiful city in the U.S.A.! Life here is like nothing anywhere in the world!"

A four days' stay in picturesque San Francisco was for us a real maelstrom. We tried to cut down the frenzied tempo, which interfered with our chance to make a thorough acquaintance with the life of America, but we were not often successful.

"Arrange it so they spend more time looking at pretty girls and cars," Mike Gutovski, a graduate student in the Economic Department of Berkeley University, advised our guides.

"I advise you not to accept the invitations of students I don't know. If you do, I can't be in any way responsible," declared Walter Clemens.

Only on the final day of our stay in San Francisco were we finally able to have some free time for ourselves and accept the invitation of a group of students to visit Stanford University without our guides.

In Stanford University the tuition is as high as in other private universities of the U.S.A.--more than 1000 dollars a year. There is no guarantee of getting a job after finishing the university.

Martin Horwitz, a student in the Sociology Department, told me about all this.

"Tell us, what percentage do the children of American workers and peasants comprise in Stanford University?" we asked two professors.