RUSSIAN STRIKE POISONING OF FACTORY WOMEN
ATTRIBUTED TO BENZINE FUMES. (By Telegraph,— Press Association.- Copyright.) (Received April 2, 11 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Ist April. Experts attribute the epidemic of poisoning of women in the cigarette factories to the bad quality of the benzine, used in rubber factories, the fumes of the benzine producing syncope. The police persist that the epidemic is due to an intrigue on the part of a secret strike committee. [Thirty thousand men in the Putiloff works ( struck as a protest against the poisoning of women in- the cigarette factories, which tho Labour leaders cynic* ally ascribe to the masters. The officials were puzzled to account for the occurrence.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 78, 2 April 1914, Page 7
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