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    "ocrText": "COMMONWEALTH OF RENNSYLVANIA\nRECEIVED\nNUG 13\nDEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY\n5\nHARRISBURG\nAugust 9, 1928.\nTERIAL CORP.\nMr. C. B. Lee\nRe : Plants using radio-\nPresident, United States Radium Corp.\nactive luminous com-\n535 Pearl Street\npounds.\nNew York, N. Y.\nMy dear Mr. Lee:\nThank you very much for your letter of August 7, , supplying me\nwith the addresses of your customers in Pennsylvania.\nI have visited the plant of the Hamilton Watch Company on\nseveral occasions to take up with them the examination of their\nworkers using radio-active luminous compounds. I understand that\nthey are now having their workers examined.\nMy usual procedure in visiting the plants using this type\nof material has been to observe the manner in which the material\nis applied, and to offer suggestions for safe application of the\nsubstance if safe methods are not alre ady in use. If any consi-\nderable amount of radium is used in the plant I also urge a physi -\ncal examination of the workers exposed to this luminous compound\nThis department has at the present time no power to compel\nsuch examinations I feel, however, that every employer using\nthese substances in any considerable amount should know, as far as\nour knowledge now permits it, whether or not his workers are re-\ntaining any of these compounds in their bodies or whether they\nare being adversely affected by the use of these compounds.\nI understand that the material is made with different de-\ngrees of luminosity, depending upon the amount of radium present.\nTherefore, if I learn from the firms using your compounds the\namount of material they have purchased from you I would still not\nknow the amount of radium these companies are using unless they\nhave that information from you.\nIf they know the amount of radium contained in the materials\nthey are using they can give me the information in the plant at the\ntime of my visit."
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