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    "ocrText": "Page 12 -\n27. Ve admit all in this para/raph.\n28. We admit having published and distributed the Bibliography referred to, and that\nit contained a section entitled \"Radium Dangers - Injurious Effects\", but deny that\nthis has any bearing whatever on the cases in question. The subject matter ,which\nis very limited, dealt only with dangers from exposure to large quantities of\nRadium in concentrated form. The Bibliography was published in 1922, a date sub-\nsequent to the employment of the complainants. If the Medical Profession was then\njust beginning to realize the possible danger from Radium burns, where large\nquantities wereused, it takes a wide stretch of the imagination to believe that we\nInew that the infintesinal amount of radium used in luminous material was injurious\nespecially at the time the complainants vere employed.\n29.\nMr. Roeder did endeavor to persuade Dr. Drinker not to publish his report, but\nnever tried to have Dr. Drinker change his opinions. Mr. loeder encouraged Dr.\nDrinker to continue his animal experiments and to investigate other plants\napplying luminous material, with the hope the t a complete investization might\nreveal conditi ons not so alarming a S claimed by Dr. Drinker.\nRemember Dr. Drinker's report was rendered in a comparatively short time, without\nany animal experimentations, and after he had examined a small number of luminous\nmaterials painters at our plant, although there were many plants in the country,\nemploying a greatmany more operators than we who were using material produced\nby us.\nMr. Roeder wanted the industry investimated, which was not done in any\nsense of the word, by Dr. Drinker's reporting only on our plant, which at that\ntime represented a very small portion of the industry. The report was not with\nheld from those entitled to same (Department of Labor incident excepted) and\nDr. Flinn was given the Drinker report when he began, or soon after he began his\ninvestigation.\nMr. Roeder.\n30.\nWe have no knowledge of what investigation the Consuners' League of N.J. may have\nmade, except as it appears in the correspondence. Perhaps on the cross examina-\ntion of liss Wiley much information can be brought out, such as:\n1. What is the \"harmless luminous paint?\n2. Whom did she see?\n3. What doctors and dentists did she interview?\n4. What was the cooperation from Dr. Hoffman\n5. What did the patients and Doctors tell her?\n6. What did Dr. Hofiman tell her\n7. What did they tell the girls"
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