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Let's Look at Labor III. Death in the factories
Hamilton, Alice | July 17, 1943 issue

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The article discusses U.S. labor issues. The National Safety Council's preliminary report on accidents in 1942 presents a startling picture of what the intensity of war production means in the life of the workers. Accidents, fatal or crippling, have mounted and are still mounting. Here are a few figures. While the death rate for automobile accidents fell 30 per cent in 1942 as compared with 1941, that for manufacturing establishments rose 14 per cent. In seven states, the rise was more than 25 per cent. Some 18,500 workers were killed on the job, and 1,750,000 were injured, 70,000 of them permanently.

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LABOR; WAR; NATIONAL Safety Council; MORTALITY -- Statistics; TRAFFIC accidents; UNITED States
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