Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-05
National Policy to Protect
Workers From Trade Diseases
Lacking, Says Health Bureau

By International Labor News Service.
New York, Feb. S,-rhc report II
the United States Public Health
Service agains. permitting the manu-
faetate AMI sale Of Dangerous Ethyl"
the highiy poisonous trua eghei lead
Whtrh takes the ekaoek' out If case
line mo,ofs. does not give adequate
prolee,ien to the workers Nho must
handle this product. This Is brought
eut BY the Workers Health bureau.
which points eat that there Is no pro
Vision made under present laws fe
safeguard the lives Of workers from
industrial poisenS,
Hogs are Safesnarled.
Commehiine on the report. Mss
Gtace NJ. hutnham. director II The
Health BUREAU, says;
Hogs aud corn receive careful CON
sideration. while an industrial poison
ike tetra ethyl lead Is allowed % Kill
l. workers and poison SOME 100 9th
ers before investigation of the poison
81 regulations for the protection Of
workers are even suggested. IN a
country of vast commercial resources
and wealth as the United States. there
il no branch Of the government 70 eN,
cnsise control over 0oeupatinnal dan
gers which desttt the health and lives
Of is industrial army
United States Stands Aiunc.
In this lack of national policy With
is criminal neglect of workers lives
the United States stands alone, France
tn dealing with the hazatd of lead
poisoning, has entirely abolished the
use of white lead hs national law. Rus
sta has recently declared that by 1880
the manufacture and use of white
lead must be abandoned, Germany.
Belgium, Austria, EaechoslAxia, rs
thouia. latayia. POLAND. Spain, Sae-
den, Bulgaria and Greece have adopted
national laws for the regulation pi
certain industrial hazards. England.
In the midst of the World war by
national act abolished the use ni
aefoplane dope son account of the has
zaid involved,
"ln the United States workers In
Is states ale dependent for their pf1-
| lection on the action Of the individual
| state and city health departments, the
| personnel Of which shifts with every
| political change. The result II that
there is no uniformity In state indus.
trial codes~-and 10 guarantee of pro
lection against specific hazards. Tn,
! scandaous loss Of life caused by te
la ethyl lead illustrates this shame
ful neglect of workers lives by oui
national government
Who Win Be the N,,sims7
I aleanrereus Ethyl. has by no nean
been knocked out II viii take man
More lives of workers. IL Is expected
for the report of the United State
Public Health Service permitting IL
manufacture again points cut "tcy
III any substances more toxic than te
ira ethyl have been manufactured oi
q large scale This poinson is - 4
| 20 times as dangerous ~ beuzol, re
Gently condemned by the Nationa
Safety Council Bonzol kills hundred
Of painters annually by slow pfoeesa
but deadly ethyl" will be used litcfall,
millions of garage workers, mechanics
| and motorists, not 10 mention the pub
| tic that must breathe the CONDENSED
! fumes IN the large and c0ngested tfaf.
| fic in the cities.
! Need for Strong Control.
The government makes fecommeni
dation for the safeguarding of the
| workers who make Dangerous Ethyl
for the garage and filling station EN-
ployes, for the public, but meanwhile