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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 It must Afrikander must be good, to have got where it Is . . . to Slave got tight into the affections of so many hundreds o f thousands of pipe smokers--and stayed there. Opinions may differ vastly as to the best methods o f beating the book, bringing up broccoli or pacifying ppliccriien, but all men who give. Afrikander just one trial carry it unanimously from then on. They O .K. its flavour. They unite in appreciation o f its soothing, fullbodied satisfyingness. And after a month --a year--a generation, they will all agree thap-ifs, the most downright dependit^ie 'baccy in the world. The price, an ounce, is 7^d, be good! "It *savesT!3 ! S and satisfies issuedtyCohcii, Wccncn & C*, Luj, IP&'l1V>ti'i W O R K E R S who Breathe D eath to see you through NO matter* if the `Alarm ' has let you down, there ! ts rthfays Shrchiled W hea t to enable you to ptok up 'lost tune in the morning. A Shredded Wheat break fast is tltvay*. teadv. N o cooking required Ju st add |milk, and in a moment you 'have a deitqhilij mc.jl -- |satisfying arid s .'.riming. i Shedded MVhr.rt is pure Whole Wheat !i contains ;all the element; necessary ito build up the body in health and ot'ength and (Supplies the energy you need for the daW. work art'd plus. R ich in h ituiuio B. AH fc 1-inn, : i ((. '( ., !ti , - i.'.-C Pd ,s HiU Hpuii /',, SHREDDED W HEAT ; i f jdf, b a u r t i u ' / w cpi*.rium tj oj * tryi-'^Sb/iJJfd t J t.s your ta rn l a r J c .ha u an a />>/.. c , . ) -> a f n t tn aJ i padsf "ibi ShrtJa.i Vuat , E/i, ; (Dtp/ 3 6 } . U'Wz.j* C udtx G t y j h r t s . A caB rm rr m im j?* fk the other dxy Hmt then* p-e ten million wot leers in tbia cmintry enc-eged unhealthy and dauf'erou* occupations, and of this cum ber three millions or" constantly cxpo&ed U* great danger To the very worst truck"* i\ now io be ttdde-d m otl.n --the ftshcsU*- worker. I t 1. u cewcompr b een u ^ only duiing the last two years has nt.> attem pt been mar5? to shmv the hok between the rabies aucl number of deulhs at asbestos workeis mid tholr oenipAtion Dining that pc-led twelve d eatas c u t of some 2.C00 worker; }ttm* been rtcf'initdly nvnbecl the investigators to e, lung con p laln t for which they have coined tbr name * a$hf.,'>ioi.5S." thoXs*ehartnsfiisg>urseint-arhe.eUs.qmtH,'csto*u,natndonlpyo*>otf- morte-r-s h.v.* taken place or Other a tte m p t u t esiobluJilne the prtwenca of the disease W ill b e w orse It docs not Include the numerous other death- which have taxon tinea n m o rrst thm class cf worker nnd havo been ascribed to nU ror-ts like h um - chitis and pneumonia Nor, of course, can It p'vt* smy idea oi the num b-rs who hnv* died slowly strangled by this fell die,!.! befe-e lha author.lies woke up to the iar.t th a t here was someihuiK which needed Unesligatioh The Munir Office h.i^ just i.vrjecl an official report dp*rirlblng tin- nature of this disease, mu! *uQ(/e$tltig porno method which asbestos companies should adopt to protect their wmkpeople I t ends on the bleak prophecy th a t there will bo a r l v to a peak in the death and disablement statistics. owing to the d am aje already dono to Ito workers As some m easure of cold com fort, It ados th at l) the `cfcQUordj suggested tahrec apdeoapktea>d tphaesrseedshould be a fall after 'Io -ahat bcb jU this peak Is likely to rise, or 'Alien it 1? to take place-- this year, next rear or ten year* he. co --the repeat L, si.Cf.t di' ca*.* wb'eh m ensces tho lives o! thoc5aj)ds of workers, and which has ai'-endy killed who knows bow many, io a dLu-see caused by dust -- the ashestv, cj if,*, gn< n 0 h> the m aterial whtbt U b hclni? oojuhcd or worked Asbestm. (s a f.nrotii m ineral sub stance whiclr can be span and. woven or precscd and m oulced. Fctfcii fust Its chief virtue co m irm h illv lr, th at It Is unalicctfd by h eat or aMdi, and durh^c the lost forty year*: 0 t datively U rge industry has grown up round this m atcm l It is an Industry hu identaitly, v,'hlch L'j omonfst the m ost lucrative In tho cou'icry, Judgi ig hi rhe dividends pout by most ol tnc* ibO o( so Urnw w hkh constitute the tn.de A t leasi one ul these firms hna 0 capital running into millions of pounds) In every stage to witich this m alerial Is subjected the doadlj dust k given off-^om etlfiies a little, an hi some of the weaving p r o c e s s , om rl'm cs a lot, aa in nphtUng Ebe flbt3 and la bagging" and '*fnattni4 "-m a k in g T he anij aavanm ^e wlUrh trie j'-ss dcty processes lia^c Is that ii takes lox.ger to c r5ppte und dl^ablo tha Worsen T t e d^st enters th ? Iting an d lodge kv the tkUrate a ir -c e lX I h c accum u lated -d cst graduahy liar dens, aud U iereafier the Umg beoiimes uselosr. After Sre >curs' nork tiu5 dive&ua At the top is Str Thent&s Legge, Govern ment medical adOiSfr, the great Minority on ih'it (iiiet'its Bdr.w h ip u S h fU rU ri Samihl He tntradcced a Bbl to to u r or<'<pj-7ci-ii(1''>!.,angod!'seastf-- Ut-ify hut got a hold In on official Investi gation H tvas iomid th a t after this period ami up io fen y ears' aervjcb 30 per ren t oi the workers exam ined had the disease 80 per cord Beyond tins period th e figure rose to i t m ust be remembered also th a t the dbease 1 progressive, and the longer ho b> In the trade the less chan ce Ihr worker has ol recovery Once It has got a hold, o: In other words niter about Gve y ears' service. Its elTirt can never bo eradicated liven if he leaver th e trad e a lto gether, it must Inevitably lessen tho w orkers clmnccs of recovery against A P eep in to T he Future On Friday, -luiv is , there come a knock m your door. A ccieetu sa lo r you ! tv l';\ ruton sV aclit you icsn i ttu,i iou sic the winner or i3 D00 and u tjiotc*' car for a yBubet* Irv a f.iuRi have tsocoma rich, tuvanus- a n d a` uoSt too happy to p -k Ej.qc. tVo prologue to this scene io-<lni. E nter a coupon time to `mthUuxmdotiui prize H ou j \i. a4 S3 w h ilst th c - e Is eitU lo r a few wo-dz. the atUv-ka o f an y aGmcnt l'i:e bron ch itis a n d pneiunnnja W h a t Is being done to com bat Lbb terrible memicu? On th e unpluyers' side scrae of the ( m o te pnllghtcrji-d have tarilcd out ' ' feudi fiftiety m ensuiei as have been iuggeated Navel thekss arcoidhi to jlJvt. In- opeclor ol Factories rheie arc num er ous pirtcos where antiquated m achinery and hand-pioiesses a rt used, all of which raise eluudsef u>btos dust and flakes. Many of the faclo-Ks loo, rt* hope lessly uosiuted for the work, being hi- ventilatird and badly Vghted T l-n c U no excust far tl. i tn tha r r e s c h t d a te of engirceruig knowtedga if is n o t Unjicsvibk to piotJc p eift-'t dust arte Xv*mc iremovirg ppar^tus. N o w they know -- I t Is into th a t i-ucli apparatus tn initially cxpesoAve 'out if i`. ra n be instaUoa m other r.idiisir^s, such ns tne explosives and. certain uf ta s chem ical Jndustr.cs, shy ugi, in th a .StfeStOft iftctoilfs" If buards ol dn'rclors sc- only ru st involved zitfr; Vnr.uld ue i-tken to com pel throi to mtrodv.ee adequate salriy m eisnies, now tbit, lins fem blu and insidious m euaa- in their U ade ft shown t') Mrtiii films h iu f iittro(ii;<A*d ch ta p paljlatl/es, such .-is providioii gas- maefcs i tr ni'kcri. m the more dusty process-: 1 T he security these prtnlde Is wors? than useless. T n yre haa yet to be designed a mu-ik wluQi iv1H slop in rtitlc', one-AWy- ttiousam ith ol an men In ..Ur. which Js the order of mltmtuvt>s of oabvasoa dust Xu on, factory brought to -our notice the d u u -m n o v ln g apparr.Uis was so adcQUuie th a t the asbestos-dust, hlowbi^: through Liu doms and win dows covered Uic groaml lor yards around A nclphtmuriiig ailotficn holder Und to 't o r e over his ground to bury tha dust At another these have iter, several death; im.or.g Workers throuith lui` 2 complamL*. i veersUy T!h<5 U ci btihgx us to what is p ci- Inps Uu* mrvst shanvfiil I ' pert of the whole fi TaU. T hem 1b no provision under the W eikm cuV CofTpoosail-je Act for those h o die 0 a re iiLssbicd by this deadly dust Compel them I t i& not lexica as an occupational eis*;osc. and any prpv.sirm for the wmkmnn or h h fmnily ts left to th e charity nud goad irilPtiUutis at Ills eoiploycc, A BUI to remedy this state of attaire has bceti before the Houi.e for- two years, it has been wnuiglod over tn- cesyutttly, and referred gain and agitln to romntiiieea T here Is Uu* atroogest analogy be tween tlui coudiUous of tbc aslxtstno worker to-day and the lead-giaro worker of fifty y e a n ago W o do not want to w-c ft repetition oi th e wordy Farl'am chtaiT battles * and the belated protection &ud JuaUcs given to those woi kera lu this le tte r day. J jx view of the fa c ts given above and conftjjr.cd by u,o Home OGlce bsvcsU- gatfan. surely t b r Oovenutte&t can n p t ncla? longer ir- inirtiduclnc kglslaUop ' fo cdTiipef factary-owncxs io y tw id e adr^unic safeguards, v U il it tntroduee an Act to ` pro vide r a ir and jnsf eatn pen sacioa-ior.j, the dependents of thnac'who liave' , and ihpse whose ucftlth l,w '.bee&i-i broken ttuough this deadly peril >>-^1.- J d <l\t u.i-rV i ,''1 . . >.b LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Office o f Business bnterpnses 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 - cover page and page 22- are a true and accurate representation from that work. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the seal of the Library o f Congress is affixed hereto on June 8, 2017. 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