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\ -JNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936. that workmen .who have been X- Heads rayed and found aHlcotlc~have Been |lSILICOSIS PROBLEM discharged, only'to leariTtWz other employers were unwilling ~to~~gltC~e~ BINGfc " .--Foi them on the payroll. ties Dav .INSTATE AT`CRISIS' Where silicosis exists, bemadded, man tod ii * Andrews Paper, Read at Cap* If a- ital Parley, CitesMovetoMod- ae ify Compensation Law. Xttht-oern"aepydea~yx1 `mHth5eenrrtjiu"otitffolchleoiTwo'befur~dtwislaacbhgoar~rrgrdeuXeo:iir-rirftwbry:ohlitchheCwo( at some other occupation/* Secretary Perkins, in opening the meeting, said that silicosis exposure h in some degree faces 500,000 wag*eamers. She advocated a compre I HAZARD HELD 'ON WAY OUT ;re hensive plan for workmen's com pensation in connection with silico sis and other dust diseases. FIFTH New Appliances Promising, Re* GET LONG TERMS HrTHEFT 300 search Aide Says--Miss Perkins 4 V u Urges Broad Plan. Fivs Sentenced in Bold Robbery at Home of Joseph Love. c nt, to Sptdel to Tst New Tom Taw. WASHINGTON, April_14.--Elmer Specie! to Tax Ktv rose Tncts. WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., April 14J F. Andrewi, New York State In dustrie! Commissioner. In a memo --Five men who executed a daring daylight burglary at the ,>-- Q Jaw randum pieced before the national conference on silicosis, held here Joseph Love, New manufacturer of 86 nue, Yonkers, or m ` today upon me can oi secretary escaped with $16 . 1 Perkins, said that an emergency were sentenced '.. .tajj.- iteu nds situation existed in mica oust hazartt industrial lh New fork State. Judge Gerald h County Judge .* During the burg! The'memorandum, presented by children and a' -*B'. ' ,. r Dr. Leonard Greenburg, director of bound by the t iu.il per nine ;e i...d ondnent : )e eor 11 go > a*y i be . iythat meet < nd < he i t, JP Jl the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the New York State Department, of Labor, declared that the prob lem of silicosis prevention has be come scute for employers m recent years because of commdB law dam age sum Aggregating minions." Under a law adopted last year in New York, Commissioner Andrews said, silicosis was made a compen sable disease, but employers were subjected to "staggering insurance premiums" and the employes war* also adversely affected, i "Many plants were--faced with the hft went on, "which .wouldLppt hundreds o; Jerome D. Er 38 Liberty Plac a former men advertising 1 planning the tenced to thf for an tndefi* Jacob Kleh ity Avenue, tenced as * serve thirty years for c Eli (Pickle merly of * York, was in prison..'.?:'-' Murray skilled workert_on add many to'the relief rolls. In the end, he added, a bill dras tically limiting compensation tor silicosis was prepared, and ia now before the Leglelature. He said theJ tenced to and Sam Street, i. State wit- bill was not a good ona, but "weL?entenca . . 3 retff[care confronted with an emergency." lit aji /wfe. vafe . . m ' ion. "The workers want their jobsp airs.' back," he added. "They are willing a ; Jooldf ^[tsdoaoetfiosornnegoiont a portion of their compen order to work. Industry want to close its plants." 1 gan Alfred C. Hlrth of the Air Hygiene it i Foundation of America, an organi zation of 1,000 companies, asserted that mechanical appliances have de was veloped "to such a degree that the GIs- existence of a dust hazard is already 1 lean on its way out." of the >ntends ` "d. tP