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-JNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936.
that workmen .who have been X- Heads
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|lSILICOSIS PROBLEM discharged, only'to leariTtWz other employers were unwilling ~to~~gltC~e~
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them on the payroll.
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.INSTATE AT`CRISIS' Where silicosis exists, bemadded, man tod
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Secretary Perkins, in opening the meeting, said that silicosis exposure
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in some degree faces 500,000 wag*eamers. She advocated a compre
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hensive plan for workmen's com pensation in connection with silico sis and other dust diseases.
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New Appliances Promising, Re* GET LONG TERMS HrTHEFT
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Urges Broad Plan.
Fivs Sentenced in Bold Robbery at Home of Joseph Love.
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WASHINGTON, April_14.--Elmer
Specie! to Tax Ktv rose Tncts.
WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., April 14J
F. Andrewi, New York State In dustrie! Commissioner. In a memo
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Joseph Love, New manufacturer of 86 nue, Yonkers, or
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1 Perkins, said that an emergency were sentenced '.. .tajj.-
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situation existed in mica oust hazartt industrial lh New fork State.
Judge Gerald h County Judge .* During the burg!
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the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the New York State Department, of Labor, declared that the prob lem of silicosis prevention has be come scute for employers m recent years because of commdB law dam age sum Aggregating minions."
Under a law adopted last year in New York, Commissioner Andrews said, silicosis was made a compen sable disease, but employers were
subjected to "staggering insurance premiums" and the employes war* also adversely affected, i "Many plants were--faced with the hft went on, "which .wouldLppt hundreds o;
Jerome D. Er 38 Liberty Plac a former men advertising 1 planning the tenced to thf for an tndefi*
Jacob Kleh ity Avenue, tenced as * serve thirty years for c Eli (Pickle merly of * York, was in prison..'.?:'-'
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add many to'the relief rolls. In the end, he added, a bill dras
tically limiting compensation tor silicosis was prepared, and ia now before the Leglelature. He said theJ
tenced to and Sam Street, i. State wit-
bill was not a good ona, but "weL?entenca
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a portion of their compen order to work. Industry want to close its plants."
1 gan Alfred C. Hlrth of the Air Hygiene
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Foundation of America, an organi zation of 1,000 companies, asserted
that mechanical appliances have de was veloped "to such a degree that the
GIs- existence of a dust hazard is already
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lean on its way out."
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