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CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT
Asbestosis :i.n Philip Carey Mrnufacturing _Corporation -- Actual Knowled~
Burton LeDoux report "Asbestosis" and the asbestos strike of 1949 --
Pierre Elliott Trudeau's
~_RQ__u:>;_had oreviously written
book, "The exposes of
A9.be~i_o___Strike.!!,, tells us (241-242) that
silicosis in Quebec, creating a scandal
iQrui~~1_9_4A8s(b2e7s4t)_~os_CHpi_srni.nvJteds.t_i_gaa_ti-osunbsoifditahreyt_a9s-bfeCsatro_s~ym_AiQn~e_sllwesa.sLCwarraiyt:t_eCnanaednitailr'e.Llly'-a1b.noeut
Lel)q_~~ccount was P!'in.te<l_in th~_ newspaper Le De_!o~:r_,several full pages of the newspapertt~-a.ccording-to
s. "a,n_j,n_ciiclment-that-f:j..lled
think
th~~ndus:tr,~a_t~Qf
the Trudeau book. Eas!.-13r-0_ughl&n_T,{9u:i.,g_n.3n_~_ad
Cne would news _sLQries
pernltiiitlleedd~, an"uAasrbyes1tzo:si;s-ia~t TEnaesct oBorko-urgaht-ocna-11A.svtilnl~algee
of J, 000 Suff_Q~~tetj__l)y_j2!Ji;t",
Devoii:_Jiarsll~__let_g_Q_~y
for-tn-e-next-m-onth witncut aaaing reports and
the -reporters of this scene;-U81'~-~=~J1et3:er
edit~on asbestosis.
pass
One of
of -,Le~ir,---1s~eraconteur
this
chapter
of Trudoau's
book
a.nd
is,
I
believe,
today
an
ambassador
for
of. the
HCeandaedi-asn cgroivelrr:->'r:~ennteowr~SsoCm1e~s~u3crh otlfidlgn~~g~-(-T~lapiroweenmisisnoenniStalryepthoerfevlicr-tifmuNs ashin5ton).
and
ye<the
only unionists
who
did
not
joi.'1
of asbestosis 11 the 5=mCiith-str!ke--in-urn-a:-sb-e-stos--rr-..ines
that began on February 1J, 1949 (247).
w. a_rea,_TFh.Qe daioccoCuant~-o(ft-L?eD3ouBx-ltohoart_Slt_._h~vaA_co-tA. mie+0f5r-o;-m-o-.asnhkaawsab.e-;s-ctnotas!-w:.oor1k1e5r
in 1P
the
Toronto
aIftrainidcl_ut_dqestelcJa__s_eth_hi_ms_tSoQ;r~ieesslionfa.tw-eos2koefrns odwisarrb!1l,e1qdli_bpyrofaits;_bCcsarteoY~-i-s?J!l_.io.ncead:_l_,_o.__u9t_ooc1c5~?~Cwcahn-oa.dwame),.re
heavy ature
p.o;l-lutntiaoin_thtnefitolvs.'1e1-,asceoimsJm.ern~tcaurryaoOinet-h~J~iCf1-1-a.mfanflaei
and authoritative medicall.Tter(35) J and culr..i."1.ates
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~~~c_alls__!!_proo_o-Lcompany_ru:i.d_g.:l!_y!U.nment
ith what r._es_Ro.:i_sj,bili_ty~~s_tar_ting__i.L1944_ (48)
o
This is a thorough, piercing,investigative report, and no SU.'m'"..ary can do it justice.
___-- - According to the memo of lat~Jer Sabour~ at the end of this report,
prepared in t244 and sent___.~}~Q_~~a--t5?~='-1P-en_s_?-tion __qfii_cj,_~~-_pu~ona17
it
was
in-~f,?_bac-::_---ThiS
report,
written-Oy_-a-medical~~d_il:_~_s:i:._or __of
experts
}ia_t~Qpolitan-bife,-includes
data on pp 2-3 that was never published in the literature, showing
of 195 asbestos miners iTIA:Sb-eSlos-\Jonr.s-J.'.anville) and Tn~tford
that
a
survey
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of exposure shmring the disease:--]Tne carrno:CSay fo-1"-cerfal:n~ha~--Ca1u)r-saw these
origl~~ta_da~ea f:r..9l"!LL9JQ_,J r~P~rts o!_tha t_9_3-.R_t3Y__e!ll_P.~?:/'__~ils
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Asbestosis and Pulmonary Cancer -~
(of
wThhicehSacr~arn~ayc'__1l~._as_b__d__ ;9;_rSt;J,Lbtcloemssmais_s_ li'o!lnerEr.ibde_:_rb)y_:.Jo:,htae_sQtueCbeacn__aAdisabnedcons:--}yls:iontiinll~$
_Asso_cia_tion _?_sb
by mica-oy-i.n.halation. ( ~fky r~52~-_:-t.:::is
and shortly thoreaft~i"Vorwa:Id-w;s
p:?:"eloonary--r-eporro:'--I,_..
estos-In iionths' testing anneared,
ed.
there
does
ani::-ear
to
be
canned at the
.11t'.!"6nd tcward a.
Lab and
~1eater
the study incid-:inco
apparently halt-
of t1.lmors in
the exposed nt tha next
nni.~als th~
neriod when
in
the cor.t~ol anin:als are
anire~ls if t~e rat~os of killed are similar to tho
t~or
~ncide~ce
interval.
th~
trend
which
is
now notd
may
finally
be
shown
to
se.io:: 1:aa 14-month be stat:lstically
significant 11 (1-21
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Contract Unit Cmmpensation Claims --
Carey and other manufacture:s of insu~ation vere also in the contracting
business. They bid on construction and shipyard jobs, hired insulation installers, and used their own products. In some states, when these workers became disabled
with asbestosis, they had to list as defendants all the companies where they had
worked. The ma.in sotU-ce of contract unit comp clai.~s was a list covery by Arms~rong Cork, of 14 pa~es of ,such claims starting in
supolied in dis-
1953. It turned
osautti.otnhaptroCcaereeydinangds. other manufacturers showed up as co-defendants in these compen-
James
W. Riley Case 57 LA 183-835 insulator for over 35 years, totally disabled and award granted in 1959; Carey brought in on reapportionment reqest by one of the parties held }~ryle in 1960; Carey also a party served with 4-28-61 notice "on the issue of apportionment of
newly joined parties defendant and penalty for wilful failure to pay co:npensa.tion, and death benefits". I have no record sho;ring that Carey actually paid comp in this case, but thay received numerous notices from the state Industrial Accident Corn.'llission, etc.
L. Streithorst Case 60 SF 192 145 -- disabled with asbestosis, age 70. He died from stomach cancero Carey noticed with the rest of the
defendants March 3, 1)60, No copies from the original file, only my
notes.
Steve Gilivich
llase 61 OAK 7152 Carey brought into the case on 8-29-620
Comr.roraj,se settlement paia $1~2 as share of
in December 1964 for asbestosis a compromise settlement.
d~sability,
Carey
Anthony Onofrio -- Unlike the three above cases, which were fron: California,
this was filed in Connecticut. It was referred from the first district
to the third, They have a card file irjdicating a findings and award
with 14 stipulatior.s dated September 11, 1963, Philip Carey is listed
aw paying $363. The woman on the other end of the phone said she'd lo~k
for the findings and award documents, and I never heard from her on that
or checked back.
203-789-7512
(send me a copy of anything you get)
A. Everitt -- Case 63 OAK 11139 Carey brought in January 20, 1964; petition
to include Carey and other additional defendants withdrawn t~o days later(:ny
notes from l~tley; no documents to this effect) but documents through 1966 show notices in the case being sent to Carey. 1tf notes say the case was settled by all defendants including Carey on September 12, 1966.
Montreal Star Expose -- !-larch 20, 1975
This pair of articles shows that the Thetford I'anes Clinic was seeing workers with occupational disease from asbestos dust and rating them "grade A" in health. The clinic
was operated since 1940 by Dr. Paul Cartier, who soon after this report retired. Tte good Dr. told at least one worker he was in A condition and the fellow developed asbes-
tsoesviesraalndothdieerdcao~lplanwiietsh,inallelssVSth-baansed2 ybeyatrhse lawtaeyr. . This clinic was used by Carey and
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Reports
by
Dr.__fg~1~a-rt-ie-r -1953-1155
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shows P6u bclai ssheesd orfeboroonrctnogAePn.iAcC!A<Jr:cnh~.i.-IrniodI"u..sxt-r:.:-aHrulotnhg~.~.91_1.1.?-2_~0?4~s-t2?0~ 7-~i~n1e9r5s5)__w,~~re~_~s-~~n~1_oee__Q.~__t_ i~rsl1.1~:9-~3
seen at of lUng
aut opsy
(15
j)
P
Cart~.,,.,. sidesteps .... ..,___ -- --- -
this
saying
that
there
wore
cancer among non-asbestotic miners. He doesn't say how many,
--
ha ...so 1 ca 0 eds .owever, an
quickly sis (in
goes on causing
to say that "therefore, the part played lung cancer) remains questiona1le". It
by the asbestotic fibrowould have been less
acmoonnfguswinhogmitfhehesehvaden scaaidsehsowofmlaunnygmciannecrserhwe ehreadfoauuntod.psie(sde, ewniet:hitot upt aapsebr)estosis,
Cartier, Paul -- unpublished ,,..--------____,
present~tion
at
the
Seventh
Saranac
_....-:.c __
Symposium, (1952--~)
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i
s
c
o
This vered
comes by th
from the ~ald e defend~nts bef
o
archl~,
re the pl
belat aintif
e f
dl s)
y d at
i
s t
co he
v
ered Armed
(that Forc
e
i---s---, they we s Institu~e
r
e
of Pathology,
/ a total of 5J
a',u'/atoltpesrieHdeedcasHeosspfriotmal, thWea~sehsitnogst_omnin. es_Ian:ri.t.o,unVd-o-rlw'hael.dt'sf_toardb.le
5
shows
,I at:LsJb:lee_L?,to1hse!r__e~_w~e~r~~ -c-r~~v--;~afn-0-~1}_-~0-i,oal.s ~eSstoo~i-t~_~sJe!_l~9m:s__tto_h\lL__a_J,~~_i'!ifLCra;_BofQg19~wsi tBfyiotuht-i-s
say in his presentatj.on that got
I of tnem-iner-sw1l:.1lout asbestosis
published, is~~L.._~eyen__gr_e_ater got Leat.nanwith asbestosi_~_,
to fract.ion
/
tthoehaasbbeessetoentiCc amrrinieerrs pdryeisnegntw-i~thfulTu1n-gn.cannacTenrg,anfdor-3-0p%ubilcation, roI uwgholuyld15l%ikeof
dying
with
it;
and
then
try
to
explain
on
that
basis
of the non-asbestotic miners that asbestosis protects
\ '\"
people caused
from lung
lea. The more cancer even in
obvious explanation, of quantities insufficient
course, was that asbestosis tc !'roduce asbestosis.
the
reason
that
mors
asbestotics
didn't
die
from
cancer
was
that
their
And asbestosis
killed them first, This was suggested by Linzbach and Wedler in 1941, by the way.
bDere. nCdaerptoieserds. pen/dj/s;'/hci./s ;/woifne_te/rs in Daytona,Florida, and as far as I know he has not
The 11'lncuso Documents you already have, so no need to note them here.
--- Minutes
offices
of in
the ~uebec Asbestos }lining ~~ebec City. However, the
Assn. are believed to be stored at their provincial govt has intervened in helpin
QA11A to keep these documents from being surrendered to plaintiffs in the USA. g
(for more in.fo- -ca-ll- -Ed-R-ub-i-n--- 2- 15---3-6-8--~ 36~0~0-)---
Paul Gillenwater has the best collection of the guys in California have certified
of contract unit claim files, and copies of some of the files, too,
some
(615-691-3350) .ft~,, fJ---ddrUJ~ c:r~.-~~ &o3-/7f-7602-
My
of
information
Indu.s_~_!ial
is inco~plete, but
H;>~~J-Jr:_ow H:_~l:!-_~)
J_Q_~V~LJ1-Q_~~~c~~?n
Foundation. Hcwev
tha er;-r
t f
t
C :h
a e
rey y-w
was or-e
a -i
member n
thoy
would
have
received -aostractsol.'ilany-articles
in
the
medical
-InF; literature
on asbestosis a member, and
in if
the Ir.dustrial Hygiene Digest. IH.~ might so for how long (Pittsburgh).~---:;;""~
tell
if
they
were
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