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January 8, 1929
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
The United States Radium Corporation wins a legal motion to move a lawsuit by two radium poisoning victims, Mrs. Esthelwynne Metz and Mrs. Helen Puck, from state to federal court, favoring the company. The women, employed to paint luminous watch dials, suffer from incurable radium necrosis and seek $250,000 each in damages.
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Legal Victory
Over Victims
Two more victims of the radium paint poisoning which workers for the United States Radium Corporation contracted while making watch dials luminous are being forced into a court of the company's own Choosing, in order to deprive them of damages. Most of the victims were frightened into accepting mere expenses for their last year or so of life by threats that if they did not waive their legal rights to damages, they would get nothing.
Technicality Favors Boss.
The United States Radium Corporation, defendant in the suit of two women radium victims was today granted a motion to have the case removed from the supreme court to federal court, on the grounds that the concern is incorporated in Delaware.
The two women, Mrs. Esthelwynne Metz, 29, of Newark, and Mrs. Helen Puck, 27, also of Newark, were employed by the Radium Corporation and contracted radium necrosis from handling radium paint.
Mrs. Puck is able to open her mouth only half an inch. Her jaw has been locked for about two months. Mrs. Metz is in the initial stages of the disease. There is no cure known. Several others poisoned in the same way have died.
Suits for $250,000 each have been filed against the radium company by the women. Their husbands have also filed suits for $50,000 each.
Legal Victory
Over Victims
Two more victims of the radium paint poisoning which workers for the United States Radium Corporation contracted while making watch dials luminous are being forced into a court of the company's own Choosing, in order to deprive them of damages. Most of the victims were frightened into accepting mere expenses for their last year or so of life by threats that if they did not waive their legal rights to damages, they would get nothing.
Technicality Favors Boss.
The United States Radium Corporation, defendant in the suit of two women radium victims was today granted a motion to have the case removed from the supreme court to federal court, on the grounds that the concern is incorporated in Delaware.
The two women, Mrs. Esthelwynne Metz, 29, of Newark, and Mrs. Helen Puck, 27, also of Newark, were employed by the Radium Corporation and contracted radium necrosis from handling radium paint.
Mrs. Puck is able to open her mouth only half an inch. Her jaw has been locked for about two months. Mrs. Metz is in the initial stages of the disease. There is no cure known. Several others poisoned in the same way have died.
Suits for $250,000 each have been filed against the radium company by the women. Their husbands have also filed suits for $50,000 each.
What sub-type of article is it?
Medical Curiosity
Tragedy
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Misfortune
Justice
Crime Punishment
What keywords are associated?
Radium Poisoning
Watch Dials
Legal Suit
Radium Necrosis
United States Radium Corporation
Delaware Incorporation
What entities or persons were involved?
Mrs. Esthelwynne Metz
Mrs. Helen Puck
United States Radium Corporation
Where did it happen?
Newark
Story Details
Key Persons
Mrs. Esthelwynne Metz
Mrs. Helen Puck
United States Radium Corporation
Location
Newark
Story Details
Two women workers contract radium necrosis from painting luminous watch dials; company moves their $250,000 damages suits to favorable federal court via Delaware incorporation technicality, amid threats to other victims.