Talk:Radium Girls

message: * It's not at all true, as this article said up until today, that "there were no further injuries to dial painters" after 1928. There were quite a few cases in Ottawa, Ill. of the "Living Dead" as they were called, and many others that were hushed up in out-of-court settlements. Im simply taking it out and leaving the rest of the article as - is.  But I agree, this needs work. Bill Kovarik.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wkovarik (talk • contribs) 12:37, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Further injuries

message: * Why isn't this article categorized as part of feminist history?    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.211.48.168 (talk) 03:24, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free.  --JeffJ (talk) 04:27, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Categorizing

message: "rv: perhaps a well meaning edit, but the spice of relevant and hearty context sure beats politically correct historical revisionism any day" 
:My intent was hardly "historical revisionism"! The reason I changed the statment "In a chilling prelude to the atomic bomb radiation unleashed by the United States during World War II, the U.S. Radium Corporation hired some 70 women to perform..." is because it SOUNDS poorly worded. "the atomic bomb radiation released during WWII" is miniscule compared to the amount of fallout released by the thousands of nuclear weapons detonated by both superpowers in the decades afterward. This is a time more aptly encompassed by the term "atomic age". Furthermore the sentance seems to draw an implicit connection between the radium corporation's negligence and the US Gov.'s nuclear ambitions and that's just silly.--Deglr6328 17:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: ok I can agree with most of that, I just don't like the comcept of comparing the Ra girl "incident" in which negligence (and some ignorance?) was at fault for the harm induced in the workers at the factory to a act which purposely resulted in the obliteration of tens of thousands of lives during a war.... What about what I have added now: "In what may be seen as a chilling prelude to the use of nuclear weaponry and the atomic age as a whole, in which lack of concern for exposure to radiological hazards was at times endemic; the Radium Girl episode holds an important place in the history of both the progression of the field of health physics and of the labor rights movement."?--Deglr6328 06:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit

message: I added a request for a citation to the statement "industrial safety standards were demonstrably enhanced for many decades."  This seems to imply that standard may have been loosened in recent decades, or it could mean nothing much at all.  At any rate, a citation of a real quote of what this lawsuit meant would be clearer. 64.252.85.0 (talk) 20:27, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly disagree with the above request for citation and, therefore, removed this claim as well as the claim for a citation for the preceding sentence "The Radium Girls saga holds an important place in the history of both [...]". One might argue that the exact meaning of the sentences are not clear and that they would need a clarification, but they are quite self evident and in no need to be verified by a citation. As for anyone not understanding the sentence "industrial safety standards were demonstrably enhanced for many decades.", it means that there were little to no industrial safety before the lawsuit and that the lawsuit was used as an encouragement for others to request better safety standards for years afterwards. I don't really see how anyone could interpret it as an implication of worsening in recent decades. --167.83.9.26 (talk) 07:34, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: request citation 

message: There must somewhere be other records of this sort of thing. Most of the aircraft used in WWII had instruments whose dials had been painted in luminous paint, often using radium based paints. I was aware of a factory in Clerkenwell in London probably used for this purpose at some time in the past. When we came across this in 1990 the building was in use as a wine warehouse, but there was an awful lot of radiation in the building when an analysis was done. Most of this building was decontaminated and the waste removed to UKAEA at Harwell. Soarhead77 (talk) 12:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at the "Radium Dial Painters" data set at http://cedr.lbl.gov/ for an indication of the extent of this problem.  There is also an interesting summary at http://www.rerowland.com/dial_painters.htm that might be a good source for expanding and generalizing this article.  A google search on "radium dial painters" brings up several additional items.  Pzavon (talk) 02:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for those links - very useful. Soarhead77 (talk) 15:43, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Incidents of this nature 

message: I find it very confusing that the entry initially says the workers were in New Jersey and then it mentions employees in Illinois further down.  Also, could the location of the Canadian workers be specified? Risssa (talk) 00:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ottawa?  New Jersey? 

message: A memorial to the Ottawa women was erected in 2011 and should be mentioned in any revision of this article or creation of a separate one treating the Ottawa events. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/32596  http://www.greatplainslaborer.org/single_pic.cfm?PicID=319545&GalleryID=9624  http://www.voanews.com/content/radium-girls-remembered-for-role-in-shaping-us-labor-law-129169888/144746.html Cigardener55 (talk) 14:13, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:   Ottawa Memorial 

message: I've chopped the "In literature, music and film" section as the entries were either unsourced, sourced to primary sources and/or in some cases apparent spam. Such a section could be useful if properly sourced. Vsmith (talk) 20:45, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed list 

message: Arthur Roeder was the president of the United States Radium Corporation
*RADIUM PLANTS COMBINE.; Form U.S. Radium Corporation, With Arthur Roeder as Head. 2. Sept 1921 The New York Times
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* Short bio of Arthur Roeder  Born 1884 Pleasantvile N.J. graduated from Cornell University in 1907 became junior engineer in Newark, Became general Manager of Robert H. Ingersoil & Brothers, After his time as president of the Radium Corporation he became vicepresident of the American Linseed Company and later president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company.
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https://books.google.de/books?id=5dNGAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA24-PP1}}
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--Stone (talk) 21:26, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to include Arthur Roeder 

message: — Assignment last updated by Taysun20 (talk) 18:46, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Writing and Reading Women Back into History

message: this only mentions women and not men too
this seems more of a female empowerment article since what about the men that died. thats bot mentioned Krabs7281 (talk) 15:56, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  why the name radium girls 

message: — Assignment last updated by Kmijares (talk) 22:40, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 4A Wikipedia Assignment