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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1978 Apr DOC PAINT057 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal APRIL 1978 1. H ITHACA NY IBPAT calls for national effort to meet the bridge crisis Story page 4 NEWS AND FEATURES page Inside Front Cover From the General President 11 IBPAT Urges Support for Labor Law Reform 12 GAO Raps Feds for Bacon Violations 14 The Tragic Toll of Smoking 30 May 18 is PAT Day 31 The General Treasurer Reports DEPARTMENTS page 16 Local and District Council News 24 Sports and Recreation 26 Financial Report DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL @ COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL fiSIGN PICTORIAL COACH 'AUTOMOBILE @ AIRCRAFT UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other documents of any description must not designate them as The Official Journal of the Brotherhood or as The Painters and Allied Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising contract forms or stationery Robert J. Petersdorf Publisher Published monthly by the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Second Class mail entry authorized at Washington D.C. 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 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 VOLUME 92 No. 4 APRIL 1978 The official journal of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices * a Lo yattettiteg, oF LABOR PRESS ISOCIA ISSOCIA 100100 503 503 x PRINTED IN U.S A. 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 Irvin 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 Could Curb related Cancer A year state program San Francisco aimed at preventing related cancer may become a model for a similar nationwide project sponsored by the Federal Government as early as next year The program set up under the state's 1976 Occupational Carcinogens Control Act is designed to register employers throughout the state who use 18 Identified causing sub- stances such as asbestos benzidine and vinyl chloride and to guarantee that unsafe exposure them is eliminated It's too early to tell about the success of the program said Hamilton Fairburn assistant Western regional administrator the Federal Occupational Saf- TO Chief Division of Industrial Safety ~ State of California . : Relations : Department of Industrial _. 455 Golden Gate Avenue -. . San FranciscoCalif 94102 ~ CARCINOGEN REGISTRATIONFORM But it's a unique and pioneering effort by California We're fund- anying it at 50 percent which think shows what we of it Washington we could do on national basis what California The California program which budgeted at 5 million has so using carcinogens most of them asbestos Asbestos is known to cause lung cancer According to the State Department of Health may exposed yearly be yearly bestos in California to as- know MARKE ot believe wilight tate if they use carcinogenic substances Carcinogenic means causing At : they wilight is a copy of the employer report would r way your employer uses any of these substances on the check list he she is required to file a report with OSHA ic . you and post a copy of it in the work area If the employer fails to comply fines can imposed The registration costs nothing and it may help save lives Make sure Your employer files a report if you are exposed to any of these carcinogens copy of this report in conspicuous - See Sec 24231of the Health& SafetyCode & - THE JOURNAL 15