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FILE NAME: Texaco (TEX) DATE: 1967 June 16 DOC#: TEX034 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Strikes Related to Asbestos .V. a M M M U U M tli^ ta l i V f ington ` #*', Ai Kr. L.G. Hart .V v . ` ' / ^ i Hr. J. Wadtoll Turner Dxothara Aoboatoa Co. Ltd. Kir./JG . 16th Juna 1967 . c . Ky/GUP/riiC2> j l.o doubt you will havo coon fran tho national press that tho insulation ongineora in Ccotland havo boon carrying out unofficial strikes correlated to the health hazard with using asbestos. The engineers rocently had a wage claim of 12/6q por hour turned dewn and 1 think thoro is a cor tain amount of roaction which has sparked off the current attitude. Z oft enclosing a copy of a report published in tho Glasgow Horald on ..oci.isday* 14th June* which gives the background to the present po.iiion. ho are doing evorything possible to persuade the workers that tho Ministry and employees aro treating the subject with top o priority and 1 understand that tho Association may be enlisting the assistance of the Asbestos Information Committee. 4 At 1. extrcmoly difficult when workers are in a militant mood to poxsuado them to act rationally but we feel that as the ,, strike is insufficient, by next week things may be operating normally. 'i ' i 1 * / O Enel. 4 S a Robert Wilson P.. I have just received a copy of Shell Chemicals U.K. Ltd Code of Practice far handling asbestos materials and this is attached.