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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1979 Feb DOC PAINT061 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal Journal month examines ecial patterns in examines America works report begins on otos by Les Crandell NEWS AND FEATURES page All - 10 Special Convention Notice to All Local Unions 11 GP Raftery Nominates Dr. Selikoff for the Murray Award 13 GAO Scored for Move to Scuttle Bacon 21 Labor Asks Way Plan to Ease Soc Sec Taxes DEPARTMENTS page . Inside Frant Cover From the General President 15 Local and District Council News News 26 Sports and Recreation 27 Financial Statement Inside Back Cover The General Treasurer Reports EVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF NNDDUUSSTTRIRAIL AL@ COMMERCIAeL PICTORIALPICTORIAL COACH e AUTOMOBILE 'AIRCRAFT RAILWAY EQUIPMENT ACHINERY e e HIPAND SCENIC PAINTING . DECORATING ' PAPERHANGING reactionALL COVERINGPAERHANGING DECORATIVE AND RCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK PAINT GLAZING CARPET @ LINOLEUM SOFT LE PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING RUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE MOVEMENT IN GENERAL member or subordinate body cuments of any description must not esignate them as The Official Journal of Brotherhood or as The Painters and led Trades Journal either upon the ublication itself on their advertising contract forms or stationery 1 J. Petersdorf Parker shington YorkAve. N.W. blished monthly by the ernational Brotherhood of Painters and led Trades Second Class mail entry thorized at Washington D.C. OSTMASTERS OSTMASTERS OSTMASTERS ATTENTION ange of address cards on Form 3579 ould be sent to THE PAINTERS AND chaLLIED TRADES JOURNAL JOURNAL 1750 New Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 bscription Price 2.00 per year gle copy 20 cents PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK ; VOLUME 93 No. 2 FEBRUARY 1979 official The official journal of the Interna- tional Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication Issued under its auspices , qed iage : LABOR3 7Fagrsensa s e PRINTEDIN U.S.A. S. FRANK RAFTERY General President 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF General Treasurer 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District 1443 Westchester Boulevard Westchester Ill 60153 A. L. MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 JAMES WOLFORD 3rd District 100 Devon Lane Williamsville N.Y. 14221 JACK T. COX 4th District 2212 DuPont Drive Irvine Calif 92664 GUY LEBER 5th District 1930 Bishop Lane * Louisville Ky 40218 JAMES B. COX 6th District 8800 Blue Ridge Ext No. 10 Kansas City Mo. 64138 WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th District 1750 New York Avenue N.W. | Washington D.C. 20006 a, Poy (doe 2d 8 General has President S. Frank Raf- nominated Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School Medicine for the CIO's 1979 Green Award The Murray Award is anted to individuals who have mproved the health welfare and creation of people everywhere Selikoff's name is synonyous with the health of workers specialist in pulmonary medi- Dr. Selikoff worked to find a therapy for TB He received Lasker Award for his successful trial of isoniazine the onder drug most responsible for inging the white plague under Number one occupational disease Particularly prevalent in the gartrades Selikoff founded the Paterson Clinic one of the earliest HMO protypes The success of the program evidenced by the fact that leads on disease mong the asbestos workers who longer directs Raftery and Dr. Selikoff the clinic but retains week privileges On Saturdays and Sundays he spends his free time examining and treating workers from all over the world no charge He has successfully stimulated the first occupational health program in the U.S. Northern N.J. HMO and he has been asked to create a special permanent clinic in New York City by the labor move- ment Worldwide he has become the workers doctor in New Found- land Copperopolis Calif India- napolis wherever we ask him to go : He is best known in the field of environmental medicine His work on the hazards of asbestos has made him the best known doctor in occupational health His work on lead vinyl chloride dyes cotton- dust and other contaminants is the most substantive basis for the new OSHA standards and proposed standards His investigation and diagnosis has also been responsible for tech- nological changes in products and application methods which have greatly reduced worker exposure to unhealthy substances At his urging and IBPAT's insistence asbestos and the mixing of such in drywall compounds has been virtually eliminated practice that has been killing workers for more than 25 years Chromates are being removed from paints better respirators are being developed to curb exposure to killing dusts workers handling asbestos from construction sites to automobile plants have had their lives lengthened by the precautions resulting from his studies The first health alert for an occu- pational hazard U.S. govern- ment's asbestos alert based largely on Dr. Selikoff's work In this effort he has been almost alone in asking not only what the problem is but also in doing al- most all the work on how to reduce the exposures and how to treat sick workers for whom OSHA standards are too late 2 . As still another example of his ; dedication to the health and welfare of workers Dr. Selikoff has also spent the past few years exam- ining and attempting to correct the asbestos problem facing thousands of workers at the Groton Conn Shipyard of the General Dynamics Corporation THE FEBRUARY 11