SYNCOPE IN CIGARETTE FACTORIES.
POISONING CASES IN RUSSIA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright St. Petersburg, April 1. Experts attribute _ tho epidemic of poisoning of women in tho cigarette factories to the bad quality of the benzino used in rubber factories, the fumes of tho benzino producing syncope. _ The police persist that tho epidemic is due)' to an intrigue on the part'of a secrot strike committee. It was reported yesterday that thirty thousand men in .the. Putiloff armament works Jjad jstrjjck""ajs a protest, against the poisoning'of women iii- the cigarotto factories,'; which the labour lenders cynic-' ally, ascribed to the masters. The officials were puzzled to account for tho occurrence. • '
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2114, 3 April 1914, Page 7
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