Cement in Bags.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 14

Cement in Bags.

SCAB OR ITCH DISEASE. 300 men have received notice of dismissal from the Portland Cement Works (N.S.W.). The wharf laborers properly refused to handle the shiff in hags as being injnri-cus to health. The directors of the company will not put it up in cr.sks, like other eminent manufacturers, -li-ence the trouble. Note-—With reference to the above '•'Q Worker' , gives the following translation of a footnote to an illustration in the last "llevue Sncialo" (Paris). Tlio picture showo the tainted anus and body of a cement-worker, and the note says : "The scab or itch of cement is a diseass which is becoming more and more Cement constitutes an aciive powder composed of sulphuric acid, carioonate of lime, siHca, a!u--nis»sus?i and magnesia. . . Ninetyfive rjor cent, of workers in csment facie vies are attacked with it. The Cement W'Os-i-;ers' bn;on advises workmen to refuse to hanci-e cement in sacks. . The cement-itch is heredit-