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" fceWToj dmvlwu(a,h,Ntti<md LvA Gnnpvf, Chafe,bee l m leoklei oj-tht Mam^VcWy CmvnAH^l a e p p e p f o f rp. a l ic e k a h il t o h . I appreciate very much the opportunity of talk- lug to the .r-?r engaged ir. the White Lead .industry ir. this country," and or;, grateful to Mr. Telman for arranging that 3heuld talk t\j veu 'For the laat r.ir.e months I have beer; isiting '.vr.it e load fact' at kr.ow much about the iz very muck interested This Ian i summer X ojitif.er.t to try to laar here I hue no difficu O ** 'w '* f ~ r>ju r * * i PPeerrhhanpo you, your selves, have experience:, he 3ane diff realtieosn that I met on the Continent. In Fr.r.j- nr.t g-.' aar.:i33ion anywhere at all, and in Germany ga.'reo. -idr.issicn to two places- One of these '.van ' ;d a*:-?:- *ir.s * s tab L i shiner: t,, 30 that I only 3aw one White ?.a : X-rty in Germany They are very jealous' of their trade :r^t: ir. Germany. and France I n.Ue the mistake of trying to get my introduction* *1* * -* ^ r A.:.'": can Consuls It - - els us 0 f .en ire very much di aspician to "he Manufacturing Cla hr '.gh tie personal influence of cr- lv .gaining a dm i 0 3 i c n to 'i;v.'i.4 g:oa many in England, Grusnels, ar.i ir. t. is may I was N16034 of the effort - to do fcway :vim in"-th$vi: work arid hero Cookson'e lead' -: fL-V: I .1 y* dffiee rules of-1883 were'oodell ,^the Heme ...- . obtaining then in Cookeon* 8 plan v .; * *-' ` nroud record for a commercial , . '. ' "V-- ' 1 , 'f t-s-!. r :> The study of the past 30 enters the body through inhalat^ the skin. The English lay more Germans, claiming that lead is absorbedl ft* fayT<sr/-- ..... fthat -leaa^-v-' . jiSf--r-'V*'i*i. . . . - owing, not ttr- ' station than t>-- f ,. ?. `ihe ` blood ceace is of the lungs, while the Cerans;jSlnJc"th^^that!'what is r. breathed into the mouth is Of course the methods of protection^fire`' 'founded upon' t.pX&i%fX'i t- i 1. 1 these facte and resolve themselves-..intojjnippreasing the cyus: and seeing to it that the workman -is'frecjfrom White ler? he eats hia lunch and when , { MJwytx&A*-# 1 >f.- 1- * he goe-..poriie bniMthat he k. dee*?' carry it into hia mouth while at work .by.'chewing tobacco., ... . * .- The abolition of dust I haiv,^rsaidy;^s-8'crr,lbed. The r- of the workman*a person consists_.in isupplying, washing ar.J ' ``'"V y v - -.mending working clothes, supplying <head-drivering and sbratitir-*. ' ' -- shoes. At Leyendecker'e all the jtHSm-wearJPwooden ;ehcea vJ i at work, which is a splendid projection -ag.i9.wt' the /iemp/,, cold floors, ' * r` 'r'': :."r'r Everywhere the .men axe 'proT^M^jf-T^' _ er''Waaivirir":-* v, \ y- man must show his bath receipts?^p|-toTBp8^*?ltofore`he' his wag*'!.. In .ife , ,,m iuaty rroc'^sejf'' > ffl*,aNSav.,S^ws:' >-^4 `''tv .- ,5 n'.ti,v:--".. s ! a f; 4 ' 'l o- ^0 "a cnce a week /'.`Y; Washing arran. net as luxuriouhf as they ....;,. -...-v j. are very muon ,more jcar e f ul jjr- waste hie money on luxuries;5 . ,, ,. V `Ir. -7.-. K that he gives the employees/ find as beautiful sanitary/- this country * J:>:K. The men have usually in ice/0ees,,tp it.;.. -~y -*r,/ 4" ,'fjfet; : .if- So you will not :~j -. 4^:My,find-in,. - - w-Tl?.-. - 1 . ' . . --:r ' - ntanbered with each nan'b number. There are l&in' 3Lined einkswith' -|r. vjm * no stoppers, so that a mem muat^wapn,'jLnJoiean.'runnihg water. Usually big cans of soft hakd^-eoap"'t&o,;']prOvided. VThere are sprays for the head le- d. J*Xb7T> e-iraa.cithh"jaaeipEjci,,a'Jnfedra.l'os.n--g'-" nai,j . ,: brushes are fastened into the^iraiijjubt^abovfe'the basins* ? Numbering the towels preventB'*jtheir'belpg^eto 1 eKV'and the arrangements for nail-brushe^jk^^bft^w'^p'provide' against jetealing. The" liinch: r06m8^fp^^^^^|Jp^^^un!iriouj^iDut they s'- ' ' -' is always provision' for hea*t^^^^^^^^^ropeansvinsist 'that it is very important in white ilead^fahtdriee that tho mer, -I V irW-pKy-::', , . -\- =7. , . s,hou.ld. no.t work, on an empAty .stomach^;iior.Nothing s-o.-favors , lead-poisoning as that, and.^e^^ia^^^^itjter safeguard : against it than the pres*ptomapfcii' So that ; ,','.tt*f? we find always a half hour for^break;f>.?.?, I think that you will find Xh0^mjm^0^iKa\li6xn workmen" and so many of them are fore'ignJborh^aSfea that pausd' for.: ... - *' .* *' *-.1 *'/. * ' .;.../ 5-W breakfast, for they7 are not^Wcueto'me^^^We! hearty brekk^' .-i***. rn:-4 i:* fast that fits the . ' - - >-:4 - . /v>=#3l /mother thing that M- H-Vb-/ rm--- i : :f- ' : -/. :ir-^i. -,v t aX ' `i ^ ^4r'5::5r; 31.-f. - .., ... i .. . . . . ^ iR; ^;. \!t' f /;/ t * V" - .; -- 13-i* ' prohibition of tobacco cheving^^liti^^mf'Z -hhave beer: ip this country in white lead or red leaqjipr dry color esr.a: > . lishments, or-paint factories ^iih'Iw^sked" the foreman *. whether he encouraged tobacco chewingtambiig his men; and I '.v? * , ..pjfii.stf''.S'/ j think there hae hardly been more,.thah jihe or two exceptio: s '': z-- ' "i* v -- to an affirmative answer. Many Jajtimeythe, foreman says th-a" I - vv? .*' -pi'-/'** 'iie teachr his men to use it\i;;I .find^iso that it is the -it'-a /: opinion held by practical painters jthat,. the constant expeetc- tion keeps the mouth cleared of-lead dust. Tobacco chewing r . `f `' r is forbidden in Europe and In England because they say that the plug of tobacco is carried, in adman's dusty clothes, Ms working clothes, and that it is ;'taken out with lead omearecl fingers and passes into his mouth often through a h .... 3i.-eared mustache. It is really eo strictly*forbidden that 7 wae impressed by it. I was In one .lead establishment witr an inspector from the Rome Off ice,-.ana hie. wanted to test a certain exhaust and asked for a match. :>The foreman had no':,..-, V-... . tut one cf the workmen had. The inspector tcld me later that as he was on a visit of courtesy he did not follow up the natch episode. I asked him trhat he meant, and he said ; . Viitev' "Vioi any workman who had a match about him no,doubt had some tcoacco too, and that he always investigated such incidents Medical inspect ion is required ^`.law over there, I do not knew when I have been more gratified .by anything than r,\- the information I received from Kr.'/Cornish that the'Bationa; J, b-'-.Ortirf'.-'ih:/-'' head Company intends to have 'medldal^inapection in all of its plants. I wish you could.'dee'^quriway to carry it one' ' ' step further. The next logical".tit seems to me, ia - :. :>:. that your medical inspector shall^itoIdjto -weed out the ------------- -------------- ----- V *>, y ------------- men who are unduly Bueceptible^to^lead^jjKJilson. You know '" " T r----r ; ; ' . V: -; ' -'^'. $- , . ; .. . there are a-certain number of men who cannot stand lead,fc. - - ` 1. I:.-'"T" -brtri -Mrv'a The suscejjtibility of individuals,varies very much. Also I wish that you would try to establish*the rule that a mem once really leaded shall notureturn^to^ii `dangerous part of = .. *' ,"i?s */<**- * - the work. That is a universal rule^over.on the other side. . *. . . . ...... ,i, ^ iv,'-h'-A' ,1* *:;; * . Here, I find, in a great many placeer, that the man drops out -? .a * . ? r ` ' "' and goes '. one or to a hospital,"and when he has recovered he has not sense enough to quit, but .goes back to exactly the same sort of work - - L' .1 ,-v ..v ' It may be asked what is .the result of all this elaborat regulation in England and Europe.,. `I ,,hav`e been told by American manx:facturers that there la actually less Tend- poisoning here than in Europe Well/it is possible to an- swer that quite def initely, In Cookson's plant in Newcastle where 162 men are brought in contact.with white lead, the most rigid weekly medical examination did not reveal one a> vV . case in the year 1909 to 1910, In Locke Lancaster's place there was net one case among 90 men for the five years tetwe 19C3 and 1908, there was one in 1909 ,-v r *`,V* - Let us look at our factories- nowy ' -I can give partial statistics of six places which manufacture white lead, and when I say partial I mean ti^at ..in none pt these factories .... : `.i , ;}:j(y is the whole truth about the men known.-/Three of them ex it ; amine all of the men employed.in"handling lead, but do not fellow up those who quit work > the 'English and German laws require this to be done - a third factCry haB a physician see only those men who complainfcbr jrhonnShe foreman bu of illness, the other two have^hb^iiedIcal>inspection nr.~ ... . . . only way I have been able to .find;"any .cases-has. been thro- hospital records, which means that "l-"have only the severe ^34 Tf. cases of plumbism occuring in =men without families, ' These are the statistics: In No, 1 medical examinati onjshowed 1 man ir. rv -...** *\\ ` be at the time suffering frorn^p limb ism. In Ho. 3 one man in 9. av - . - r ,* 1 . ." X. tr- * - ..v- r.\i \/ In Ho, 3 38fo of all-employeds^have been leaded In Ho.. 4 where medical, inspection is only on c-. rlair.t, 25 cases occurred among about 200 men, or lr,8 The two factories which have jio medical inspei: - - '4- . . are sending to the Cook County Hospital threa cases a: four cases respectively "a month vr|/This would mean 36 cases for one during the year and "48 for the'other, b- we know that r.ot one-half of the leaded men go to tne County Hospital and that the actual'figures would be t i T'-fV r r much larger,, This means that all the ;factoxie'8.j;in Illinois and St Louis are. so dangerous to their workmen that they would be closed by law in any European .countryy^sPlease do not thir.k I am exaggerating, for I am not.' ',MjrJfigkre0- will bear a ve cicse scrutiny- ' '7^.' -V Evidently the protection'of .:the`!men in American factor is very far from satisfactory evendih'dihe very"best and cle u eat factories, where machinery is used,Vto" the utmost extent . i 'i l-'-j . . -j. ~ fvgZ-sg^: and whore there are good wash roomS?anglko<>d lunch rooms This is because of the differehce23n`tiP&rdcess over here, ' - Dry stripping the stacks, dry ssparat in gf^and handling of thrf- dry returns, emptying the drying pan,Vharr^eX,packing and head ing up of ? ' rrrels and in some cases^filling of the | j --- chasers, -all these are dusty and.,dangergus processes. More- ever we do not keep down the dust 'asf'thejF'Sib over there. ! *' ` -?- .r*!C f -' ^ We never keep the floors flushed. Dry sweeping is the rule =and wooden floors . We have not as good means of keeping the .-| , v -v men & persons clean, Overalls are, not provided and washed for the men There is no compulsion as/to.washing. The very . \ i . ,, test waBh-rocm will fail unless- the men are obliged.to use it Of course in many ways it is- much easier to manage men cf the same nationality as their foreman, who*speak the same language \*vj( . .>* i*r*- yr.-c On the other hand I was jtold .that the Italian help employed in one English factory .were.more docile than the English men, who are mere sensitive about their indivi dual rights and do not like to be boseed at all, as far as personal habits go- I think it would be possible to make cui men as amenable to discipline in the matter cf cleanliness as ir. the matter of ether factory rules.^At any rate it seen: to me that it is a matter cf factory !'diaciijline and that [perhaps a factory may be considered'to hava failed in its discipline if it cannot force its men to keep clean, . . .. . ____________ _________________________ ; ___-i-*- ^^ I should suggest, if I were\'tq'"he'aliowed to suggest anything, that the American factories^in^he^ f irst place should have cement floors kept wetj ^second, if the present methods cannot be abandoned, if we^;must'have dusty work, then * >'* cake the uen employed in the duety-work`nee reepiratore, I do not mean only the ordinary.rubber ."respirators with sponges in them, I did not'nee'one Vf ,Sho8e abroad. What. -A *rJr V' *. l. *_ they use'are plain muslin bagajrith-two"tapes fastened to .' ...v* ...`.i ." the edge, which slips over the nose and mouth, the tapes tying behind.the head, They^do'not cost "anything and the *! - * *-V V" AT'* * v .***. ' men do not object to them, as,.they are easy tp breathe throug Overalls and caps should be provided for the men engaged in any dusty process, but the effort should be made to have -3 . V vv . as few dusty processes as possible, When I was down at St. Louis just recently, and visited the Collier Works, Mr, Worrali" balled my attention to the * ; - ,, i* long handled shovels used in the drying room, and I notice, that the men did not throw the white lead, as I have seen it done usually, into the trucks," but put- the long handled 3hovel down until it reached the truck,-and' then turned it ever . . ' ... . I wish very much that the change could be made of melting the dry returns and not using them to set the staci:- Perhaps that is not practical,' Perhaps none of. these thing s are They are simply the suggestions of a.layman. If the barrel packing could be done as carefully and as neatly aB it was at the old ShipnaiTplaint, I think it would be an excellent things I think'the.man who did that th.. 1 - there ought to be sent around as an expert to teach the ether factories- how the barrelling should be done. I am net familiar enough with the process of packing barrels to know why he did it without bluBt and why everybody else -17 does it with dust. ^..... ... _ r-/:-; . #? '- # - I think it is very good"of^ou^jbo iet a layman talk to you about somethingi she ...oonnlylyppaarrttiiaally understand. /..It . , ` .-J ' y. may be very many things I have 'suggested are not applicable to American industry, but' if. they .are I hope the national Lead Company will consider^adopt'ing^ them, just as Cookeon's in England led the way for rthe^ reform in the hygiene of the * V-\v:" : white lead trade, so that when the^laws in 1883 were passed ' ' r~ \ V-<i.i they were practically Cookson's rules, only not quite so strict; so I think the National Lead Company could do the " '.. same thing in this country. We are told that the advantage "............ .V -'-V . ` in great industrial combinations such as yours represents, is that there can be concerted Act ion j- there can be brought about improved methods, and the improvements can be known by others, and followed, and I hope very much that through k ' rt "4 the action of the National Lead Company the hygiene of the white lead trade will be greatly improved, I am very much obliged to you (Applause). . lr : * : . . . . ; r , . v .' .v W ? . ' -.K. v..': r ..'3 . . -v - - .v, vt;.. . , 'v