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...Gauley Bridge is a disheveled village on the forest-fringed New River of central West Virginia. There six years ago, a construction company named Rinehart & Dennis began to excavate a three-mile waterpower tunnel for a subsidiary of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. Last week Rinehart & Dennis were putting in last licks on their tunnel. But many a man who began the digging in 1929 was not alive to see the finish in 1936. Some had died of silicosis, incurable lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust. Pneumonia and tuberculosis had caused the deaths of others...
Recently the radical press of the nation learned about the deaths at Gauley Bridge, began to rattle the skeleton of what it claimed was a hideous industrial scandal (TIME: Jan. 6). One who heard the clatter was young Representative Vito Marcantonio of Manhattan, who has a sharp ear for the kind of news stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman...
Gaunt Mrs. Charlie Jones, who bought a house and cow with $1,600 she received as compensation for the deaths of three sons who worked in the Gauley Bridge tunnel, claimed : "Shirl's lungs was all gone when they took them out." Later she complained: "We get two dollars a week relief, and I earn one dollar a week takin' in washin'. That helps buy feed...
...public health expert, Dr. Emery Roe Hayhurst of Columbus, Ohio, who had expressed indignation over working conditions at Gauley Bridge, declined to attend Congressman Marcantonio's inquest at Washington until he knew who would pay his traveling expenses...
...Leonidas R. Harless of Gauley Bridge refused to go to Washington because Mrs. Harless was sick and he was too busy professionally. Nonetheless he wrote that he had "warned many workers who came to me for treatment that continuous work in the tunnel would be extremely dangerous. At the same time, the whole thing has been so grossly exaggerated that the filing of the damage suits by former tunnel workers has become almost a racket...