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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1930 June 28 DOC NMA191 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION John Bull Magazine - Workers Who Breathe Death eo, eo 1 JOHN JOHN JUNE 28 1930 Afrikander must be good to have got where it to have got tight into the affections of so many hundreds of thousands of pipe smokers stayed . there Opinions nay differ vastly as to the best methods of beating the book bringing up broccoli or pacifying police- men but all men who give Afrikandet just one trial carry it unanimously from . then on They O.K. its flavour They unite in appreciation of its soothing full- bodied satisfyingness after a month Jj -a year generation they will all : agree that it's the most downtight de- pendable baccy in the world The price an a3 ounce is d -7 ot It saves fast ce | and | - satisfies | uy Issued by Coben Weenen & Co Ltd 4, He, > Bhoian + . ; WORKERS who Breathe DEATH Shredded to see you Wheat through * CABINET MINISTER MINISTER stated the other day that there in pre ten million workers this country engaged in unhealthy and dangerous occupations and of this number three are constantly millious exposed to great danger To the worst trades is now to be very added another -the asbestus worker Itaewcomer Itaewcomer Itaewcomer because only during the last two years has been made to show the the causes and number an attempt hak between of deaths of asbestos workers and their occupation During that perled perled twelve deatas cut of some 2,000 workers have been deft- nitely awribed by the lovestigators to & lung complaint for which they have * coined the pane ashenics That figure takes account only of those cum aliere quests and post- mortems as takes place or other attempts at establishing the presence of the disease Will be worse 10 matter if the Alarm has let you down there is always Shredded Wheat to enable you to pick up lost time in the morning It does not include the numerous other death which have taken place amongst this class of worker and have been ascribed to aliments the bron- chitis and pneumonia Nor of course can it give any idea of the numbers who have died slowly strangled by this fell dance before A Shredded Wheat breakfast is always ready No cooking required Just add milk and am a moment you have a delight meal- satisfying and s stuning the author.lles woke up to the fact that here was something which needed investigation The Home Offer has just tasued an official report describing the nature of this disease and suggesting Rome method which asbratos companies should adopt to protect their workpeople It ends on the bleak prophecy that | Shedded What whole Wheat 11 18 pure contains there will be a rise to peak in the nwing death and diablement statistics nwing to the damage already done to the all the elements necessary to build up the body in health and strength supplies the energy and you need for the day's work and play Rich in Vitamin B. workers , As some measure of cold comfort it adas that i the safeguard suggested arc adopted there should be a fall after the peaks peaks passed To what bright this peak is Bitcly to rise or when t is to take place this year next year or ten years he.co he.co the report by shoul The The deas which menaces the At the top is Sur Thomas Legge Govern- ment medical adviser the great authority on dost diseases Below his his Sit Herbert Samint He introduced a Bil to cover occupatenas discure years ago ilo Kestaurants Kestaurants Kestaurants rinuse tr etc. Tolets Boarding Stredard a beat upon h SHREDDED Aves Aves of thousands of workers and which has already killed who knows bow many is disease caused by dust the ashest dis given off by the material whilst 8 is being nanded or worked Asbesus is a fibrous mineral sub- stance which can be span and woven or pressed and moulded has got hold In an official investigation it was found that after this perlod and up to ten years serviet 30 per cent of the workers examined had the discase Beyond this period the figure rose to 80 per cent 11 must be remembered also that the disease is progressive and the longer he th in the trade the less chance Fatal dust Its chief virtue commentally is that it is unaffected by heat or ackis and the worker has of recovery Once it has got a hold o In other words after about Ove years service its effect can never be eradicated during the last forty years a zelatively Large Industry has grown up round this matcual is an industry lucidentally which is amongst the most lurrative in the . Even If he leaves the trade altogether it must inevitably lessen the workers chances of recovery against country judging by the dividends pard by most of the 160 or so firme which constitute the trade A Peep into If you have rat ye bu on opportunity opportunity of trying Shredded Wa on it your name and caress on piler for a free trai ) packet The Shredted beat Co Lid The Dept 26 Wyn Cards City Heris At least one of these firms has a capital running into millions of pounds In every stage to which this material is abjected the deadly dust is given sometimes a little as in some of the weaving processes sometimes a lot as in splitting the fibres and in " begging and mattress -making The als aavaninge which the lem dusty processes have is that it takes longer all to cripple and disable the worker The dust enters the lungs and lodgen in the delicate cells The accumu lated das gradually hardens and thereafter the lung becomes useles After are years work the disease THE FUTURE On Friday July 18 there comen a knock at your door A teiegrate and aston shment you learn 3000 3000 you sie the winner of uw motor car for a Bet fash In a you have become rich famous and a uost too happy to the Etac the prologue to this en from time for a day Enter a coupon huge 83 what there is att to win this wondorius prize few words the attacks of any aflment like bron- chitis and pneumonia What is being done to combat this terrible inenare On the employers alde some of the c more enlightened have carried out buch niety measures as have been suggested Nevertheless according to ILM In- spector of Factories there are numcrous places where antiquated machinery and processes are used all of which raise clouds of asbestos dust and flakes Many of the factories too are hopelessly unsuited for the work being ilventilated and badly lighted There is no excuse for < In the present state of engineering knowledge knowledge is not impossible to provide perfet dust and funte removing removing apparatus Now they know- It is true that such Intually expensive but apparatus is if it can be installed in other industries such 13 the exploses and certain of chemical Industries why hot in the the asbestos factories If boards of directors ses only cost Involved steps should be taken to compel them to introduce adequate sairly mesanes now tha this terrible and insidious menace in their trade in shown to east Mans Mons have introduced cheap pablatives such as providing gasmacks for workers in the more dusty processes The security these provide is worse than useless - There has yet to be designed a mask wluch will stop particle afty- thousandth of an mich in alze which is the order of minutiness minutiness of asbestos Aust In one factory brought to our notice the removing apparatus was SO Inadequate that the bestos hlowing through the doors and windows covered the ground for yards around A neighbouring allotment holder had to ture over his ground to Lury the dust At another there have tien several deaths Ubong Workers recently through lung complaints This is bags us to what is pe- haps the most shametal peal of the wiwle Tau There is no provision under Workmen's Compensalle Act those who dic or are disabled by the for this Geadly dust Compel them It is not listed as an occupational disease and any provision for the wotkinan or his family is left to the charity and good intentions of his employer 5 A BNI to remedy this state of affairs has been before the House for two years it has been wrangled over incessantly and referred again and again to committees There is the strongest analogy be tween the conditions of the asbestos worker day and the glare worker of fifty years ago We do not want to see a repetition of the wordy Parliamentary battles + and the belated protection and justics given to those workers lu this latter day In view of the facts given above and confimed by U.e ifonie Office investi- gation surely the Government cannot aclay longer in Introducing legislation to compel factory to provide s edequate safeguards Let it introduce an Act to pro;. vide fair and just compensation for the dependents of those who have died ;. and those whose health has 2 of broken through this deadly peril their dady work pat, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Office of Business Enterprises Duplication Services Section THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the collections of the Library of Congress contain a microfilm reel entitled JOHN BULL Microfilm number 04894 and on reel number 18 Volume XLVII 47 No. 1254 dated June 28 1930 the following pages - 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