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^ . , HEW CANCER .i ESIDUAIS HIT NEW HIGH The asbestos industry seems''to have turned up a new type of tumor, a malignant form called mesothelioma, according to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, who testified reccntly before a Congressional Com- - mittee. Dr. Selikoff, professor*of Com munity Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital, N.Y., and president elect of the New York Academy of Sci Writers Guild msmbers ended 1967 with an til time high for re sidual money received for their . writing efforts, according to execu tive-director Michael H. Franklin. Domestic and foreign residuals gave writers $4,720,539.12. This in cluded residual compensation for films released for TV. Residuals for 1967 were 63 per cent Ye than 1966 when writers earneu *2,889,095.78. The previous high mark was 1964 when collec tions amounted to $3,342,096 which still gave 1967 a 412 per cent edge over the previous high year. Since the inception of the resid ual program in 1955 the Cuild has collected for its members a whop ping $27,691,672.13 in 12 years or an average of $2,307,63955 a >w. 4 ences, said that though lung cancer kills one out of five asbestos insula tion workers, the new type also at tacks the lining of the chest and the peritoneum. Calendar "People who work in the dusty atmosphere of the asbestos indus try not only breathe in the dust, they eat it, too," said Selikoff. May 4-10 United Automobile, Aerospace A Agricultural Implement Workers of America, AFL/CIO Atlantic City Convention Hall For the past six years Selikoff has conducted intensive tests and stud ies of 632 absestos insulation work ers, members of the New York and May 5-12 May 6 United Textile Workers of America, AFL/CIO Building Service Employees, International Union, AFL/CIO Miami Beach The Carillon Hotel Washington Sheraton Park Hotel New Jersey locals of the Asbestos Workers Union. It is out of these May 6-10 Canadian Labour Congress Toronto Royal York Hotel and previous studies that he dis May 20-27 Distillery, Rectifying, Wine and Allied Washington covered this new form of cancer. Workers International Union of America AFL/CIO Hilton Hotel On the basis of normal life ex pectancy, of these 632 workers, 203 could have been anticipated to die May 23-31 International Ladies Garment Workers Atlantic City Union, AFL/CIO Traymore Hotel by 1962. But, instead, the mortality figure was 255, Selikoff said. May 27-31 Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL/CIO Miami Beach Fontainebleau Hotel "We might have looked for six or seven deaths from lung cancer. May 27-31 United Furniture Workers of America Memphis AFL/CIO Sheraton Peabody Hotel There were 45. We could have ex pected 9 or 10 stomach or colon cancers, the figure was 29," he told May 13-17 International Union of Dolls, Toys, Playthings, Novelties A Allied Products, AFL/CIO Grossingers, N.Y. Grossingers Hotel the committee. In discussing the new cancer, mesothelioma, Selikoff stated it was so rare that its incidence of June 2-7 American Federation of State, County, Bal Harbour, Fla. A Municipal Employees, AFL/CIO Americana Hotel June 17-20 American Federation of Musicians, AFL/CIO Shreveport Captain Shreve Hotel occurrence is in 1 out of every 10,000 cancer cases. "But of the 113 June 17-22 Communications Workers of America, Washington AFL/CIO Sheraton Park Hotel deaths in the asbestos worker group June 24-28 Office A Professional Employees Philadelphia in New York, 13 have been from International Union, AFL/CIO mesothelioma." 4 July 7-13 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and San Diego y July 8-12 Butcher Workmen of North America, El Cortez Hotel AFL/CIO Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen A Houston ^ PICKETS BY THE TON Enginemen, AFL/CIO The Rice Hotel July 8 Transportation--Communication Employees St Louis Sheraton Jefferson Hotel The National Football League Players Association announced Clans to register with the U.S. Laor Department, as a trade union. A sports writer observed with a picket line of guys over 6 feet each July 15-19 July 15-19 July 16-19 International Brotherhood of Bookbinders, AFL/CIO International Brotherhood ofOperative Potters, AFL/CIO Stove, Furnace A Allied Appliance Workers, International Union, AFL/CIO Philadelphia Ben Franklin Hotel Vancouver Hotel Vancouver Long Beach, Calif. Edgewater Beach Hotel weighing over 250 pounds, who July 28- United Glass A Ceramic Workers of would take a chance to cross it-- August 1 North America, AFL/CIO Hollywood, Fla. Diplomat Hotel unless it's another football team. 4 AMIRICAN LABOR Maty, 1VM 17 02 215 0466-