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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...
Union Carbide & Carbon, dragged into the Gauley Bridge affair by its toes, declared that it was "very proud of its safety record everywhere." President P. H. Faulconer of Rinehart & Dennis asserted that "every known device to protect the workers was used and that reports of deaths were grossly exaggerated...
...Other Rinehart & Dennis officials issued statements in which they claimed that an epidemic of pneumonia, not silicosis, was responsible for scores of deaths at Gauley Bridge. They charged that damage suits were filed by some men proved not to have worked in the tunnel and by others who worked only an hour or two. According to the apologists, the death list from various diseases did not exceed 50 out of some 2,000 workers...
WHAT GOD MEANS TO ME-Upton Sinclair - Farrar & Rinehart...
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