Comments on: Undark and the Radium Girls

By: Trixy

Trixy — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 21:10:39 +0000

Fascinating article and great comments! There is a phrase or saying related to dial painting and its dangers and I can’t remember it! Anyone heard of it?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:32:25 +0000

My question is how are they listening to their new radio when they don’t have the speaker that would have sat on top with that style of radio??

The radio was used to indicate they were making ends meet enough to buy an expensive item and then to show they were struggling financially, so it was an important prop. How could a set decorator not know their time period in a period film?

By: Dyl

Dyl — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:51:13 +0000

I am doing a report on The Radium Girls, and before grace fryer died a 24 year old woman named Mollie Maggia died when a radium induced infection in her jaw spread to her throat. And on September 12, 1922 at five p.m., her mouth was flooded with blood as she hemorrhaged so fast her caretaker could not staunch it. Her mouth didn’t have any teeth, or jawbone so the blood overflowed. She died, her sister Quinta said, a “painful and terrible death.”
this statement is almost word per word from page 37 of The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore. I don’t mean to nag but I feel this women should be remembered as a Radium Girl.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 03:05:35 +0000

I am here.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Sun, 19 May 2019 00:52:13 +0000

Another year of my life gone, without a trace.

By: Anonymousx2

Anonymousx2 — Sat, 19 May 2018 02:24:26 +0000

Last.

By: Ella

Ella — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 19:52:22 +0000

It’s very sad about those people. The girls didn’t need to die because they painted watches. The US Radium company was stupid to lie so much

By: Ashley O'Brien

Ashley O'Brien — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:36:32 +0000

mmm..I only read about 10 or so of the comments, so dont shoot me if this has already been said:
…What about those bloody supervisors? the ones who KNEW about the radium? who at least knew thatit was’nt good for you…at the very least?.Compensation for the victims? sure! absolutely! but punishment for those malicious , evil overseers? hell yes!I’m not American (I’m from New Zealand) and too many times we see and hear stories from the US when its so often the case that the perpetrators seem to be immune…the more money and /or govt agency involved, the more so…..its up to all of us as citizens to dictate what we want from politicians,if they dont deliever on promises,even a simple one,dont vote them back in..a cohesive understanding of these issues needs to be communicated to all and understood by all.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:58:30 +0000

I guess we can safely assume that in many factories the management’s attitude didn’t change: Don’t do what’s good for workers, do only what the law requires, do the minimum you can legally get away with.

By: Some guy

Some guy — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 13:07:06 +0000

This article gave me the chills. It shows me, that also in the western civilisation these sorts of things happened. And I somehow hoped, that it was only that bad in some of the current “problem” countries…
Aweful News. Well, at least I can be happy about living in a better place now, but I think we have to make sure, it stays that way!

Raymond De Mouilpied said: “It is most unfortunate that the word radium goes well with my name, Ray D M. I came to Australia about 48 years ago, and it was not unusual to see men working 100 to 200 feet in the air on girders, painting them with no safety equiptment. In my short time working there, three men fell to their deaths. I nearly list my own life when a hammer flew out of a workers hand, and whistled by my ear. A few inches to the left and I would have copped it right in the face. At that time, I was sitting on the middle of a girder about 150 feet up, with nothing under me except fresh air. I think how lucky I was that day. Not so for the poor other three. I was only working there for about ten weeks, but I do not know if others fell to their death, through the neglect of bosses to provide proper safety harnesses. It proves that the mighty dollar, holds more value that the human life. This is only part of the story. Ray.”

This story reminds me of what I have seen in a documentary about china… I really don’t understand how some people can be that heartless. They don’t care the faintest bit about their employees. You don’t even have to be a religious person to value Life. I mean, even crabs care for their peers…
And I’m glad you survived that job!