Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1907 — Sanitary Ware Made At Fearful CosL. [ARTICLE]

Sanitary Ware Made At Fearful CosL.

“One Oi the most striking entries in the death-roll of industry is the loss of life in the making of porcelain sanitary ware—the very utensils that are designed for the salvation of life in the home and the hospital,” writes Arthur B. Reeve, in ‘ Our Industrial Juggernaut,” in the February Everybody’s. “In this trade scores die annually from lead-poisoning in the glazingdying literally that others may live. From the mining and smelting of lead to the glazing with white lead ’preparations, somebody is constantly being sacrificed to this deadliest of metals.