Labor Quiz: Cotton Dust's Disease
Monday, June 18, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)The disease contracted by exposure to cotton
dust in inadequately ventilated working
environments is called “Byssinosis,” "brown
lung," or "Monday fever"? Click
here and you could be next week’s Quiz
winner!
Last Week’s Quiz: The “L” in
John L. Lewis -- president of the United Mine
Workers and a driving force behind the
formation of the Congress of Industrial
Organizations -- stood for Llewellyn. Congrats
to Tom Headley of BLE-IBT Division 482,
Baltimore, MD/Washington, DC, this week’s
quiz winner!