The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-01-16
TRADES THAT KILL.
CALLINGS MORE DANGEROUS
THAN DYNAMITE MAklNG.
Xiscrics Of Lead Workers FILLED with
poisou-HOw Match.nakorS Are
Said TO Contract Ter
rible Malauies.
~ONSlDERABLE attention S
[ I being given in England just
y NOW TO Investigating the

NNA1ADI4A|.ADAIc "oV0AeA"n T."
Il I being given in England just
now to investigating the
various trades and occupa.
tons which are said to jeopardize the
health and lives of the workers. And
some appalling facts have been dis
covered, but it is doubtful if these
will lead to remedial legislation, for
the victims are tho poor and ignorant,
who are quito as much opposed to the
investigators as are the oppressors
themselves. Living always upon the
verge of starvation, as their fore.
fathers did for generations before
them, these unfortunatcs regard the
investigators as meddling monsters
who would destroy their only means
of earning bread for themselves and
their children. They are content to
work and die, as their fathers and
mothers did, and rs their children will
do.
But while England certainly heads
the list rs Nation with killing occu.
pations, the same conditions exist
here, but in much less aggravated
form. And there is no remedy unless
the demands OF commerce be arrested,
and to make that possible the whole
machinery Of the world must be re.
adjusted.
In round figures there are 10000
wage carriers in England employed in
killing or health. destroying occupa-
tions. and quite as many in this coun-
try, owing to the similarity OF the in
dustries.
1t would seem that the making of
dynamite should be q more hazardous
calling than the making Of hats, but
carefully gathered statistics show that
Tor one death OF dynamite worker
there are ten Of hatmakers. In fact,
the dynamite trade is not classed
among deadly occupations. In the
making Of hats q fine lint is thrown
off which works its way day by day
into the lungs Of the workman, pro.
ducing in time e variety of r.aladies,
and each one Of them lie sborteuer.
Hat making is trivial, however, to
the trade OF manufacturing chlorine
COS. 1t hes been shown that If y per.
icctly healthy maa follows this occu-
patton for nine years hc;'will be O.
corpse. Nine years is the maximum,
the minimum three months. This cas-
is extensively used for bleaching and
dyeing, snd in the making emits
heavy grecnish .vapor. This poison,
entering the lungs of the workman,
soon brings on q rackinS cough, in.
flaming the lung cells and eating away
the tissues and generally: ending in
death.
Ice factories are common enough
throughout the country, but it is not
generally known that ten years is the
limit set by physicians for man who
works in one OF these places. In the
hot summer days, when the tempera.
turc is among the nineties, the men IN
an ice factory are working in O place
as cold as the Polar regions, muttled
up in overcoats and ear muffs, and
wearing heavily padded gloves. Even
then they suffer from cold, yet when
the days work is over they swe]ter
like the rest of humanity. These ex-
IRENE changes soon weaken the sys.
tenn, and pneumonia or consumption
is the ultimate end.
Much publicity was recently given
to the fact that the Gould brothers had
insisted upon the girls employed in
their match making factories having