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June i0, 1928
U. S. Radium Corp.
JUN 22 1928
Orange, New Jersey
Gentlemen;
LEUUS
Am engaged in selling RADIUM ORE DISCS to be placed in
drinking water, as a health measure, and my work has been much
hindered by articles published in the News papers, similar to
the enclosed clipping.
Am at a loss to know in what form the Radium (if indeed it was
Radium) was used, to do so much harm; or with what other substancee
it was mixed, -etc. as to be so poisonous.
Was not Phosphorus-really the substance used for illuminating
purposes?
Was any Radium used at all,- or was"Radium 11 simply the name
used for the Plant ?
Until I can know something more about the facts of the case
I cannot explain the situation satisfactorally to my Clients
and prospective Customers, who, many of them, have now become
afraid to drink Radio-active water, (since reading the encl osed)
Please send explanation in encloded seff addressed envelope-
and I shall be very grateful for the favor.
Very Truly Yours
H. Mead
8457 San Juan Ave. Southgate, California.
Radium 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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