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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Sept 20 DOC NMA088 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Unions Planning New Challenge To U.S. Asbestos Regulations Npegw York Times Currenfitle Sep 20 1974 ProQuest Histoncal Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 Unions Planning New Challenge - ToU.S. Asbestos Regulations Labor offiNBRODY ofiNBRODY he study indicated ofiNBRODY offiNBRODY wa union yesterday that they were plahat plahat at approximately twice * ning a new challenge to Federalt level only a few per cent . asbestos regulations on tife workers exposed for 10 lung ground that the rules failed years or longer develop asbes- protect the health of asbestos caused disease The . workers and their families workers at this factory have reactingsince The officials were reactingsince been examined by an- _ a new study described yestother physician who found The = day in * New York Timnat Timnat from 40 to 70 per cent showing that many of ore wives children and ofheidence the workers have ray ofheidence of tung abnormali- household contacts of asbesties -. workers could eventally devein addiatidodnition deaths among the - lop asbestos lung abnoriginalabnoriginal abnoriginal 290 men studied are be- malities and cancer as a resin Edinary analyzed According to pre- 1 1 of their incidental exposure Edinary information provided { asbestos fibers carried home Dr. Hilton Lewinsohn med- s from the factory on the wor^'al director at the British fac- > alhus e e*rs clothing out of a total of 29 deaths # distressed The union officials were alhus far seven were caused by by new data from cancer and three by meso- that England that suggested . basis of current Federal regin tions was invalid and that elioma a cancer of the lining the chest or abdomen Both {W levels of asbestos to whisimilar whisimilar frequency among Amer* workers were now expon % * may cause cancer and expon cy disease years later levels In their anticipated challenge the unionists are expected a insist they did once beft . _that manufacturiing process chicauses be designed so that worker terday Sheldon Sheldon interview of will not inhale any asbestos asbestos workers exposed considerably higher fiber totiate don't see how we can netotiate a number for a fiber libeft when we don't know what worker cancer Mr. Maz- the and that industrial Union Department of vide the employer a vide special clothing showere American Federation of La- nc forforhomies change and laundering cilities so that workers do ganizations and building representa- bring the mineral fibers homies and Congress of Industrial homies of several building building trade families = and asbestos workers Dimension unions A Different Dimension Mr. Mazzocchi's sen- fromtiments response We will be fighting fromtiments fromtiments response union > different dimension said ApIn to a labor union > thony Mazzocchi legislative fi allenge ruling last rector of the Oil Chemical wall wall the Occupational Safety * Atomic Workers Union " Health Administration is . be looking at a whole genereparing genereparing amendments to the tioo f on ur children It's bestos standard which an thing to destroy a worker Ruency Ruency representative - said *- another to destroy his familshould familshould be the subject of public According to current regugarings next year ~ tions which w^repromulgated in response to similar labor de- ae mands three years ago workers are not supposed to breathe air - ncontaining more than five long :. fibers of asbestos per cubic cen- timeter That can add up to the pe inhalation billions of asbestos . fibers of all sizes each work o r day Only when the asbestos ? levels at work exceed five fi:. bers must the employer provide aye facilities for changing clothes | However a study by Dr. Wil- liamliam Nicholson of Mount Sinai we Medical Center here showed *. that the homes of asbestos workers are filled with the white fibers ; In 1972 the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration ruled * asbestos the - that the level in work environment should be lowered to two fibers per cubic * centimeter of air but the effective date of this ruling was .. delayed until the end of 1976 + The fiber standard was based primarily on one study at asbestos * of men aBritish Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited withoutpermis on