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FILE NAME: Colonial Sugar Refinery (CSR) DATE: 1948 May 13 DOC#: CSR204 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - A.W.U. Asks for Departmental Inspection at Wittenoom * <-- \ l S:\ l5 AUU /i- \ a 'a W uT ' ASKS fo r departmental ! INSPECTION AT WTTTENOOM Says Workers' Health Endangered by . Dust in Asbestos Mill - "wmmmMMR FIBRE CAUSES POWER tINIT TO FAIL; MEN NOT-COVERED BY COMPENSATION- . THE HAMERSLEY RANGES. 1 > T other. M , Announcing tht U * t*ix*1 **** : when flue asbestos fibre was dream M s th t ** . Discussing condition! gauerelly a t Wlttcnoom. Mi. Otlrer reW that sutroundlnfs wree pleasans. and there was plant? of water. However, tccom m odatlon.w a Malted. Houses arere prcrlOeaior S o stsB. but the " '"S J? ware housed In tents and barretll- A township ares ,P>iint<l a re miles from tha mints, but ciuy tons house b ad b r e n b u u t a n d i vent irert under construction. jUwreWerfeoairiMkrilnryigyjogooodo.. bouujt t*h*a Jtorw" S S? dan ,of this, and r fast f t a d au*te!r mpiushsi s dsnc to which the mitt **** A " -W h n f .Cit mill > !? * " ' heavy clouds of dust drift threujh tha plant, toeludlna the euahje-, room, fitting shop and ogees. n* j whole atmosphere shoot the pk*. is dusUkdeo. There k no doubtl theVthe health ol w * * 5 `; sectiw k exposed to eertoos nan* _ %&txsM : " ~j^ivaMgrasrrssssts*s h.d asked the State Mining Enatnecr, tol.bhsstuulsagaea TanOa*. . ' to ~ .a. - Mr. rFoOXtaAnU,. w hnmaa^we amnu tM*" p--reU--o--n He nssilod uthwe htowhn -- - - - - o. .i p-aU- nt cMoensedltibtilAonfisa sStt WWllttttccnnoooomm.. gtrpnf exception two men ***w5iLt5te.' H e w k l he n l a v ttc thst the #- . t WWte* - ----- x n w w |f w** :-- hsd n sd t sn cap " a proekfcotl cB itteW t try lost, but the d o n bdlered plated out thst th a th a t e t th s t time t h t mill vrsi m ^ protected by the third dosi and under repair, and 1 c the Workers* Ocmp"- this teason dost counts could not ^ OT b j the M as Wort- as* ag^rjssffls *awww-.** ^Hoarerer. tha union 1rels lt U " ^ J'^ ^ a io u fh t that wb*re not necessary to hare th e mUl ln enticed tn Perth coiAl be Xoay- operation for a p ro g r appreciation w t ^ PtrUl public BoreJtjJ. of tha amount of dust reeatjd f^aitlaa ahouMbe u**d by Sis mill U laden with a thick tt* g <!10^ 3 id that whan h e " F & S t f & r unit felled * - w aosujdt vt sea -- M g S S S J f - w i T S ? -fib- - 5. >k. " mtafhArlt O- -i - - - - - - -