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...gave River Saga a steady flow of hummable melodies and pounding rhythms that hit his West Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
...years ago, shocked into action by the silicosis scandal of Gauley Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
This week in Manhattan the committee issued a dismally illustrated "Preliminary Report." It was promptly denounced by Secretary Evan Just of the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Association as "damned blackmail." The report contains no harrowing Gauley Bridge tales of mass burials and walking skeletons. It offers only Government statistics, a short medical treatise on silicosis, eyewitness accounts of Tri-State life. What distinguishes the committee's report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease...
...Contractors Rinehart and Dennis of Charlottesville, Va. drilled a tunnel in double-quick time through a hill near Gauley Bridge. Hired for the blasting were 2,000 men, mostly Negroes. Within three years after the tunnel was finished, 466 had died of silicosis and tuberculosis...
...THINGS ARE-Albert Maltz -International ($2}. Violent stories of the "proletarian" ilk. Best: Man on the Road, about a hitchhiking miner who has caught silicosis in Gauley Bridge. W. Va. and cannot decide whom to blame...