The Cotton-Mill Killer.

Several thousand workers in the nation's textile mills are suffering from the crippling disease-byssinosis-popularly known as brown lung, and many more thousands are exposed daily to the cotton dust that causes the disease. These disclosures, made over the past two years in medical journals, in the press and at Congressional hearings, follow a decade of research by public health officials, carried out in the face of unparalleled obstruction by textile manufacturers who have denied researchers access to their mills and applied political pressure to suppress the results of their studies.