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R: dium Concern to
Pay Huge Sum to
Five Factory, Girls
NEWARK, N. J., June 5.-(U.P.)-
The settlement made by five women
who sued the United States Radium
corporation for $1,250,000 will assure
them incomes larger than they ever
made as employes of the organiza-
tion, their counsel said today.
One thousand dollars a year was
the maximum salary paid the women
when they moistened brushes with
their mouths and painted watch
dials with a radio-active substance
in the radium company's plant at
Orange, N. J. In doing that work
they contracted a poisoning which
probably will kill them within a year.
Under the settlement, each woman
received $10,000 outright, $2,000 for
past medical expenses, a pension of
$600 a year to cover further medical
expenses and counsel fees aggregat-
ing $19,500.
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