![]() ![]() She licked the brush tips that were then dipped in radium. ![]() I’m wondering if it is feasible for her to have worked in a factory that used radium for watch dials. She died on their 1st wedding anniversary. He would have been 29 in 1948 and they were married 1 year before that. My uncle’s 1st wife died from radium poisoning in the late 1940’s. It happens in all corners of the world…African diamond fields, Philippine factories, Chinese industry…wherever a profit can be made.Ĭapitalism only thrives when all seven sins are indulged in yet we, humans allow this, but why? It’s not American capitalism, it’s the evil of greed and money. And then for to be closed and another plant open a few blocks away. I can’t believe this happened to a small town in the Midwest. I never knew about this being born and raised in Ottawa iL. ![]() I love the radium girls I did a PowerPoint on them. The Ottawa dial-painters had a measure of justice after Donohue’s death.Ī nice posting – History Day students may see how Chronicling America can really help them On October 23, 1939, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the company’s final appeal and the lower court ruling was upheld. She died on July 27, 1938, the day after Radium Dial’s attorneys filed their next appeal. Donohue survived long enough to know that the company’s first appeal before the Commission was unanimously denied. The Radium Dial Company filed numerous appeals. In 1938, after more testimony before the Illinois Industrial Commission, including Donohue’s from her sickbed after she collapsed at the hearing, the Ottawa dial-painters won their case. By that time, the Radium Dial Company had closed its Ottawa plant, opened one in New York, and claimed the previous company was defunct. Their lawyer, Leonard Grossman, had accepted the case only two days earlier. Another two years passed before the Ottawa women had their hearing on Jwith the Illinois Industrial Commission. As with the New Jersey case, the statute of limitations stymied debilitated Ottawa dial-painters in 1935 when Donohue and others tried to sue. The dial-painters in Ottawa, Illinois would have read news coverage about the New Jersey workers, but the Radium Dial Company claimed that it was the element mesothorium that was the culprit in New Jersey and that Radium Dial paint was safe because it contained no mesothorium-only radium. On June 4, 1928, the New Jersey women accepted an out-of-court settlement. “Settlement of a Pathetic Case,” The Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 5, 1928, p. ![]()
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