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D.C. 20006 Phone (202} 872-1566 New Phone Number Expected after October 24: (202) 383-4800 Volume 79 OCTOBER 1979 Number 10 AFL-CIO Views Energy, SALT II, Economy Executive Council meetings In Chicago focus on recession-era issues Offshore Oil Conspiracy Draws Heavy Fines Brown & Root, Inc, and the J. Ray McDermott Co. found guilty of fixing construction bids Shipbuilding Faces an Uncertain Future Ironworkers building ships in San Diego look for a new maritime policy to save a sinking flagship industry Marshall Interviewed on Energy, Davis-Bacon U. S. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall attacks GAO study of Davis-Bacon Act and sees jobs shift in energy crisis Entering the Second Century of light A five-page special feature on energy which begins with Edison's light bulb 100 years ago and ends with 20 tips on saving gasoline 2 3 4 8 11 DEPARTMENTS The President's Page Indoor/Outdoor Illustrated Local Union Activities Circular Letters Shanty Talk Official Monthly Record Yesteryear Inside Front Cover 16 17 19 21 22 24 INTERNATIONAL OFFICERS JOHN H. LYONS General President Suite 400 1750 New York" Ave,, N.W. Washington, OX. 20006 JUEL D. DRAKE General Secretary Suite 400 1750 New York Ave., N.W. Washington, O.C. 20006 CHARLES R. ANDING General Treasurer Suite 400 1750 New York Ave,, N.W. Washington, O.C. 2Q00B ROBERT E. P. COONEY First General Vice-President Suite 821 400 First St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 HUGH WILLIAMSON Second General Vice-President AFL-CIO Building, Ste. 2QI 1106 La Vaca Street Austin, Texas 78701 JOHN F. WALSH Third General Vice-President Suite 310-Guaranty Life Bldg. 137 t Forsyth St Jacksonville, Fla. 32202 LEONARD P. MAHONEY Fourth General Vice-President 4258 Castor Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. 19124 A. S. GOODWIN Fifth General Vice-President Suite 400 1750 New York Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 EDITORIAL COMMITTEE W. M. Lawbaugh, Editor Walter Hill, General Organizer Robert L McVay, Executive Director Jurisdiction Raymond J. Robertson, Director of Apprenticeship and Training DALE M. RAY Sixth General Vice-President Room 133 1633 Bayshore Highway Burlingame, Calif. 94010 MATTHEW TAY10H Seventh General Vice-President 42 Salem End Lane Framingham, Mass. 01701 fIHEinONWORKER SWpMldhil M fcneria ON OUR COVER--After several dec ades of world leadership, the Ameri can maritime industry now suffers from government neglect and fierce compe tition in the glnhal market against heavily-subsidized overseas carriers. J. W. MERRITT Eighth General Vice-President 301 W. Vine Avenue Knoxville, Tenn. 37902 THOMAS CLARKSON Ninth General Vice-President "horn 1308 65 W. 14th Stract, pw York City, New York 10011 DMART 138 POSTMASTERS--ATTENTION: Ohanfe of address cards on Form .3570 should DO tent to me International Association of Bridge, structural and ornamental iron Workers. Suila <00. 1750 New York Ave., N.W., Washington. D.C. 20006. Sunscrlptlon; SZ.50 por ytar. ISSN: DD21.163X. Fu&llthed monthly ny tne intirnacionai Association 61 Urinye. Structurei ana urnamcnwi iron Worker; at 1750 New York Ave.. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. Second Cla mall entry authorized at washimton, D.c, Prlntid on union-made Diner. printed m u..a. 19/17/m MON 17:20 FAS 6072559641 CATHERWOOD LIB. 012 S Boilerma *>e? Ironwork pneumonia . ind died," Boilerma first time o Unionists Tell of Asbestos Dangers, Seek Improved Compensation Program A congressional panel studying the na tion's workers' compensation programs was told that only 30,000 of the esti mated half-million American workers disabled each year by asbestos and other toxic substances actually" receive com pensation. Sheldon Samuels, director of health, safety and environment for the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, said the record of compensation in the U.S. is nearly the worst among the industrial ized nations. Samuels testified before the House Subcommittee on Labor Standards. The panel is examining specific industrial health dangers, such as cotton dustcaused and asbestos-caused diseases, and is considering a national workers' compensation law to guarantee com pensation to the Victims. The subcommittee's latest round of hearings focused on the dangers of as bestos. Testimony by a number of gov ernment health, scientific and labor wit nesses sketched a bleak picture for vic tims of exposure to the substance. Labor witnesses also focused on whar they saw as an Inadequate system of compensation for the victims and on what they viewed as the asbestos indus-' try's record of covering up and minimiz ing the dangers. Allen B. Coats, general representa tive for the AFL-CIO Metal Trades De partment, charged the U.S. asbestos in dustry "knowingly caused great suffer ing and death" among its workers by withholding the facts about asbestos health risks. "We feel some employers are guilty as hell," Coats declared. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has said an estimated 6 million to 11 million Americans face potentially serious health problems be cause of exposure to asbestos since the beginning of World War II. As many as half of all persons occu pationally exposed to the substance might develop lung cancer, mesothe lioma, asbestosis or gastro intestinal cancer, according to HEW Secretary Joseph Califano. Many persons already have died from exposure, he said. Congressional hearings last year re vealed that the U.S. asbestos industry has known for decades that the substance could cause grave health problem;, but internal corporate documents indicated the industry intentionally withheld the information from its workers and the public. Coats argued that an adequate com pensation program must be worked out to aid the victims and their families, and said the* financial burden for such a program should fall on the asbestos industry employers. Taxpayers must not be made--or even allowed--to pay the major cost of com pensation except where the U.S. gov ernment was the employer," Coats said. "Any employer who made millions by literally walking over the dead bodies of his employees cannot be made to pay enough." 5amueis, speaking for the AFl-ClO Industrial Union Department, said it makes "profound Sense" to universalize an exclusive state compensation funds concept. Such funds are operated directly by individual states and exclude private in surance carrier involvement. Samuels said a six-year study of compensation funds showed that where private insur ance companies were involved, only 64 cents of every premium dollar ended up in the hands of disabled workers. Exclu sive state funds, meanwhile, paid 95 cents of every dollar to the workers. The involvement of private insurance companies in the workers' compensation process has done "grave and irreparable harm" to millions of occupational dis ease victims, Samuels said. "We urge that this committee . . . think the unthinkable and face up to the need for adopting the exclusive state fund concept for the entire country," he said. Dr. David P. Rail, director of the gov ernment's National Institute of Environ mental Health Sciences, repeated earlier warnings that symptoms of asbestosrelated diseases may not appear for 20 to 40 years following exposure *o the substance. Rail warned that a cigarette smoker who has been exposed to asbestos is 50 to 90 times more likely to incur lunE cancer than a non-smoker who has not been exposed, and is 10 to 30 times as likely to develop lung cancer as a nonsmoker who has been exposed. No matter when the exposure oc curred, Rail said, a worker who quip smoking even years later will reduce his or her chances of suffering lung cancer- Dr. Phillip L. Polakoff, who is con ducting an asbestos screening program in the San Francisco area, urged that the government increase Its screening and education activities to locate and aid potential asbestos victims, and said 4 compensation system should be incor porated in a national health care p**n* Ironwork i little att< wires arour Apprenti I'm paying Pusher: bum aroun Apprenti' Pusher: need some Apprenti. you mind put it in nrr Ironwork has me scat Carpente even date more." Ironwork having for I Lather: ' over TV dir Ironwork. Derby is a olds." Plasterer: Mil do for Ironworki lhat operati Operatinj but the dc touch up th Ironwork* graduate fre Plumber: outs were g. 20 THE IRONWORKER fOBER 1979