What Price Safety!

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Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

Released: Feb 5, 1938

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Lionel Royce

Morris Zuto

George Houston

Foreman Cooper

John Wray

J. Z. Wray

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