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I had to impress our engineers with the immediate necessity of bettering conditions in cell room.  I know it can be done.  Why not do it aggressively.  I am just wondering what harm it would do if an industry like this one was suppressed.  Here is undoubtedly a case where the labor inspector [[underlined]] should [[/underlined]] intervene and compel to obtain proper conditions or shut down.  I shall report and put it as strongly as possible.  What's the use of having cheap bleach and cheap caustic at such a price?  
What harm would it do
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if bleach was somewhat more expensive so as to allow manufactures to observe proper sanitary conditions?  Ten dollars a ton would accomplish great things and nobody would feel it.  I admire the courage and good nature of our engineers who suffer about just as much as our [[strikethrough]] engineers [[/strikethrough]] workmen.  Young Burnham who I am told is a Harvard graduate and a Cornell Civil Engineer and the son of the President of the Baldwin Locomotive works, has the afternoon shift from 2 P.M. to 10 P.M. Is dressed as a scarecrow caustic eaten garments,
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