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...success quickly in the person of a little old man with a racking cough. Aléman first saw him under the Caballito monument at the head of the Paseo de la Reforma, and took him for a beggar. But the man refused money and said he was a miner far gone with tuberculosis. Aléman questioned him, took him home, persuaded him to see a doctor. The verdict: not TB, but silicosis. In the name of the old man, Pedro Aguayo, Aléman filed suit against the mining company...
...well be exposed, too. No less important, the council roster now includes for the first time a representative of the people governed: hulking (6 ft., 227 Ibs.) John G. McNiven, mine manager for Negus Mines, and-as a fellow councilor describes him-"the very picture of a husky, hardrock miner...
...coal miner and his family expect to be healthy? Into drab soft-coal towns all over the country, from Virginia to Montana, five teams of Navy doctors and their helpers last summer went to find out-the first such medical study in the nation's history. Last week the doctors brought in their report: a majority of U.S. mining towns are "a menace to healthful living"; some are "a disgrace to the nation...
...average miner lives in a company-owned, one-story, unpainted wooden shack more than 30 years old. Of 1,154 company houses surveyed, only one in ten had a bathroom with tub or shower; 75% had outdoor privies (few meeting minimum sanitary standards); less than half had piped-in water; only a third were properly screened. Well over half the towns had no sewage system or garbage collection; housewives often dumped garbage near the house or in foul streams running through the town (see cut). Though miners lack bathrooms at home, less than half the mines have showers for washing...
...working on a deal to build an entire industrial town, for the same Sao Paulo interests. Next step is to reopen its office in London, from which the firm plans to expand abroad. Most of his ideas, says Loewy, are intended "not for Park Avenue but for the miner's wife," are thus marketable anywhere...