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14 Workers Ask $485,000,Allege Sickness on Job Fourteen former employes of International Bent Gfcts, Inc., 1825 North Nineteenth st., sued Monsanto Chemical company and a New Yorit paint firm for a total of $405,000 in damages Wednesday.,. Urey charged that they suf fered liver ailments, akin erup tions, cysts and other disorders after handling an enamel dis tributed by the B. F. Drakenfeld company of New York. Imemstional Bent Glass is a light-fixture manufacturer. The plaintiffs alleged that both Monsanto and Drakenfeld were negligent in failing to warn erf toxic characteristics of the com panies' products used at Inter national Bent Glass between 1955 and 1902. The United States Public Health Service found the plain tiffs' ailments were caused by use of the enamel, the suits al lege. The petitioners are Ronald 'Simpson, Merle Clifford, Mary Chapman, Dorothy Barry, Mil dred Barett, Rile B. King, James A. White. Walter F. Miller, The)ma Wieners, Martha Sylar, Theo dore Czarnecki, Charkxte Shoe . maker, Hatel Schneider and | Verge! A. Meness. HONS 050354