She says it is also about the fight and resistance the women had to endure to get justice for the hideous deformities and the deaths of friends and relatives. Rebecca Marzalek-Kelly, who is directing the play at Skidmore College, explains the work is about more than the poisoning of the girls. “Radium Girls” which is playing at Skidmore College, Friday through May 5, tells the story of how young women employed to paint the faces of watches with radium in order to make them luminous, fell prey to radium poisoning before there was even a name for it. – “Radium Girls” shows the darkness that can be hidden by excessive light, and the negative impacts of a discovery that is assumed beneficial to society. In a few years we will look back on today’s events and feel outrage.SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. It’s a lot like the way the pharmaceutical companies and the CDC are covering up the “covid vaccine” deaths and injuries. I do not know if there is a complete list of the victims’ names, but we will follow up with you through our Ask A Librarian service to help you to find more information. Maureen, I am so sorry to hear your tragic connection to this story. At the time of her death we lived in Ridgefield PARK, NJ. If anyone can help me if she, or another member, was a victim. I know its an extremely long shot, but I really want to know.My aunt was buried in her wedding dress which had become much to lsrge for her. If I could see the names of the victims maybe I would recognize her or another family member. Also, I only know her married name, but is there a way to find out the names of the women that died of radium poisoning after working working in New Jersey factories or would she have been to young? There is no one left in my family that I can ask, I’m almost 70 now. She was 2 years younger than my uncle and apparently was sick for sometime before their marrige tho he didn’t know that. She licked the brush tips that were then dipped in radium. I’m wondering if it is feasible for her to have worked in a factory that used radium for watch dials. She died on their 1st wedding anniversary. He would have been 29 in 1948 and they were married 1 year before that. My uncle’s 1st wife died from radium poisoning in the late 1940’s. It happens in all corners of the world…African diamond fields, Philippine factories, Chinese industry…wherever a profit can be made.Ĭapitalism only thrives when all seven sins are indulged in yet we, humans allow this, but why? It’s not American capitalism, it’s the evil of greed and money. And then for to be closed and another plant open a few blocks away. I can’t believe this happened to a small town in the Midwest. I never knew about this being born and raised in Ottawa iL. I love the radium girls I did a PowerPoint on them. The Ottawa dial-painters had a measure of justice after Donohue’s death.Ī nice posting – History Day students may see how Chronicling America can really help them On October 23, 1939, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the company’s final appeal and the lower court ruling was upheld. She died on July 27, 1938, the day after Radium Dial’s attorneys filed their next appeal. Donohue survived long enough to know that the company’s first appeal before the Commission was unanimously denied. The Radium Dial Company filed numerous appeals. In 1938, after more testimony before the Illinois Industrial Commission, including Donohue’s from her sickbed after she collapsed at the hearing, the Ottawa dial-painters won their case. By that time, the Radium Dial Company had closed its Ottawa plant, opened one in New York, and claimed the previous company was defunct. Their lawyer, Leonard Grossman, had accepted the case only two days earlier.
Another two years passed before the Ottawa women had their hearing on Jwith the Illinois Industrial Commission. As with the New Jersey case, the statute of limitations stymied debilitated Ottawa dial-painters in 1935 when Donohue and others tried to sue. The dial-painters in Ottawa, Illinois would have read news coverage about the New Jersey workers, but the Radium Dial Company claimed that it was the element mesothorium that was the culprit in New Jersey and that Radium Dial paint was safe because it contained no mesothorium-only radium. On June 4, 1928, the New Jersey women accepted an out-of-court settlement. “Settlement of a Pathetic Case,” The Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 5, 1928, p.
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