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Vachon, John,, 1914-1975,, photographer.
Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas
1942
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945
Industry
United States--Texas--Sunray
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-59 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35446
Call Number: LC-USW36-842
finally got myself together enough to pack a lunch... praying this isn't the last time for so long again!
Ottawa Radium Girls Monument
Ottawa, IL Corner of Clinton & W. Jefferson,Erected Sept. 2011
Commemorates the “Radium Girls” who’s 1928 lawsuit against U.S. Radium helped establish the area of occupational disease labor law. It took 2 years for plant worker Grace Fryer to get a lawyer to take the case, New Jersey attorney Raymond Berry. Five brave women joined the lawsuit, Edna Hussman, Katherine Schaub, Quinta McDonald, and Albina Larice. By the time of the court hearings Grace had lost all her teeth and could not sit up without help, and Quinta and Albina were bedridden. By the second day the women, who had garnered national attention, were too ill to attend. They took a meager settlement, apparently engineered by a judge who was a U.S. Radium stockholder.
The Radium Girls all died within months but their bravery had an impact on the national consciousness and on the law. Workplace safety laws soon followed. Radium was no longer taken frivolously and 10 years after the historic lawsuit the 1938 Food Drug and Cosmetic Act outlawed deceptive packaging on radium containing products.
The Radium Dial Co. founded in Chicago 1918 moved to Ottawa on the Illinois River in 1922. Only recently have the 16, yes SIXTEEN, EPA Superfund sites in Ottawa, Illinois been deemed safe. Radium also polluted the Fox River almost to death at the site of the Elgin Watch Co. which paid piecework so mistakes were tossed into the river to protect their low paying jobs.
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A warehouse space in Tokyo.
As a reminder, keep in mind that this picture is available only for non-commercial use and that visible attribution is required. If you'd like to use this photo outside these terms, please contact me ahead of time to arrange for a paid license.
Used at nowlearning.com.au/resources/occupational-health-safety-i..., and unitedsafetyassociates.com/about-us.html, and nebinfo.com/blog/health-safety-essentials-manufacturing-c..., and www.ohsglobalrisk.com/top-5-workplace-health-safety-myths/, and rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/policyfix/2014/10/workplace-heal...
more Family Christmas Party left-overs, yay for late-Christmas goodies (brought a couple extra today, to share with a co-worker who well appreciates the Argentine Empananda)
I don't like to talk about money... I don't like to worry about money... I don't like to live my life as if having or not having money is making any huge difference in it...
But, no matter how hard I try to sit back and brush it off... the stark realization that bank account, minus tithe, equals $3 short of rent! kind of sticks a dent into my day... and, try as I may, I can't hide that bleh from those who truly know me!
I hate the fact that the "math" doesn't work. Yet I have to sit back, frugally, and live by faith that it will... That. is hard for me!
The nagging realization that I may have to find myself dipping into my meager 40D savings... aches to no end, and honestly has me stomping around like a three year old who just won't relent on what they know is rightfully theirs. Ack!
And in other news, for those who care, or notice... yes. It's ba-ack! (just when last night I was thinking/reveling to myself that it was over... moving on. *growl*
So I took a picture, and promptly called an understanding friend!)
I hope you find the poster helpful! E-mail me if you prefer a .PDF version of the poster. The .PDF is formatted for (tabloid) 11x17in. paper printing.
It can be printed to letter size sheets by selecting the corresponding options from your printer's print menu.
Take care!
Alfonso Lerma
KHA, Online-MSDS
419-287-6832
a.lerma@online-msds.com