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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1976 Apr DOC PAINT043 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal APRIL 1976 LEGAL STATE ALL the Cover The CIO and its Building Trades Department meet The goal jobs for the unemployed Journal NEWS AND FEATURES page Inside Front Cover From the General President 4 6 8 12 _ 19 BCTD AFL Conferences on Jobs IBPAT Prompts NLRB Award IBPAT Cites Abuses in California Labor and the Bicentennial The Business of America The GST Reports ' DEPARTMENTS page 13 Local District Council News 20 General Executive Board Minutes 25 Labor Beat 27 Canadian Labour 28 Financial Report DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL e COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL fiSIGN @ PICTORIAL COACH @ AUTOMOBILE AIRCRAFT MACHINERY @ RAILWAY EQUIPMENT SHIP AND SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING e PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING # DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK GLAZING e@ CARPET @ LINOLEUM e SOFT TILE fi PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL S. FRANK RAFTERY General President 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF General Treasurer 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other & documents of any description must not designate them as The Official Journal of Brotherhood or as The Painters and AlliedpublicTatiron ades Journal either upon the their advertising stationery BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District 1443 Westchester Blvd. Westchester Ill 60153 A. L. MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF Publisher and Editor 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 | JAMES WOLFORD 3rd District 100 Devon Lane Williamsville N.Y. 14221 JACK T. COX 4th District Published monthly by the 2212 DuPont Dr. eT international Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Second Class mail entry authorized at Washington D.C. VOLUME 90 No. 4 Irvine Calif 92664 GUY LEBER 5th District APRIL 1976 1930 Bishop Lane mene POSTMASTERS ATTENTION Change of address cards on Form 3579 should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Subscription Price 2.00 per year Single copy 20 cents PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK The official journal of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices 4 LABOR PRESS 4 AS LABOR PRESS SSOCIATION SSOCIATION Louisville Ky 40218 JAMES B. COX : 6th District 8800 Blue Ridge Ext No. 10 Kansas City Mo. 64138 WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 District h SSOCIATION PRINTED IN U.S.A. The Decade of Job Safey Asbestos Workers Bring Disease Home From Job The first phase of our Brotherhood's Job Safety Program was to get the facts research proj- ect contracted to the Mt. Sinai School of Environmental Medicine by an arm of the federal government the National . Institute of Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH This article is about the kind of dangers Mt. Sinai technicians have spotted for one of our brother asbestos workers IBPAT members chiefly drywall finishers often are exposed to asbestos compounds Mt. Sinai under Dr. Irving Selikoff has been studying effects of asbestos on Brotherhood members The Journal will periodically report on job safety findings of particular interest to our Brotherhood This is such an article A study of 326 family contacts of former asbestos factory workers by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found that 35 percent had ray abnormali- ties characteristic of asbestos exposure The data were presented recently to a New York safety conference by Dr. Henry Anderson ; The family members poten- tially affected included all in the household it was not simply the wife of the worker who would shake dust from her husband's clothes before washing them Children brothers and sisters were affected as well as wives The dust apparently had been present throughout the household brought home on the clothes of the factory workers .. The workers were employed at a factory that manufactured amosite insulation material often for use in Naval ships but also widely used in power plants and industrial insulation It operated from 1941 through 1954. Many of the workers whose families later developed signs of asbestos exposure were employed for relatively short periods of time Family members however may have been exposed longer Asbestos once in the house is difficult to remove and exposures could continue long after the end of the husband's or father's employment In other studies by Mount Sinai research workers asbestos dust was still present in households of these former factory workers 20 years after closure of the plant Mesothelioma a cancer often linked to asbestos exposure has also been found among these family members Of 252 deaths so far identified among household contacts of these former workers two have been from pleural mesothelioma Additionally two other meso- thelioma cases have been identified in living members of this group One case was the year daughter of a man who had worked in the plant for five years The family lived near the plant and the daughter used to bring her father's lunch to the plant every day when she was 10 years old As early as 1960 scientists reported cases of mesothelioma in individuals who had had no prior occupational exposure to asbestos The results of this study stringent dramatize the need for dust control and cleanupin situations where asbestosis used It also heightens the 1 2 1 cific pro more at fication [i decision decision type of = A pre from th not bid be issue 2 worker importance of individual hygiene and demonstrates the need for adequate changing facilities and showers Under no circumstances should dusty clothes be brought into the home even to be put into the washing machine They should be washed separatel.y4 preferably by a commercial industrial laundry service equipped to handle asbestos contaminated work clothes For family contacts who suspect they have been exposed to considerable household contamination medical surveillance is in order The family physician should be told the . exposure history so that ray and chest examinations and subsequent medical problems can be closely monitored for possible symptoms of past asbestos exposure at home 10 THE JOURNAL