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PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT GF-2003b file News 5, THURSDAY*. MARCH T6 1972 teeono I MmviiM. HJ. MS7I. l<k per copy. Ajsbestos Workers' Plight Receives National Attentioi The plight of asbestoa makers Ibc to Minville end is other aibatos plena throughout the United Suttee has finally come to the t' ttntuei of mwanOnient offietek. foremost authorities ' on asbestos related Ossum. in an - attempt to get hard facts regending the amount of disease at the local asbestos plus Department urging a Chime of the Threshold Limit Value I tyt maximum number of particles per volume of (pace of lie considered te be safe to braAthk. that tmtad at TLVs, the Labor Department Mould sat performance standards for every industrial asbourn use. In no case, said the Mount Sinai team, ~stuM H be The federal Departmat of Or. Sdftotf presently is in Brs. Setikoff and Halid ly allowed that would result in a Labor. -this week begin volved in analyzing health argue that presort TLVt have workman remaining in an -hearings as new standards histdris of a number of J-M bon concerned with asbestoiis atiureyhire containing more governing the., mount' of workers in an attempt to asbestos pmticUa per .volume HtiMMi whether or not new (bldg scarring caused by lh" than 2 fibers per cubic cen lnbalation of asbestos dust). timeter." M spaceor air cagjdcred to be and improved safety devices at They pointed out Hat Hubert Stinger. - vi# jaftik> breath*.' - the -laol teams plant haw sshmtaMs is ody one small president of Local SOD, said 'Af**' pro* csUtm eucr bad any effect en the veter TjSchry ts `ITcAiinCta.'D.C.. * part of- the heifer problem yesterday that ..the UPP has (adsg 'lbw asbestos wuriw Sodortad Hrx SelikaH'i^anri iajtod by the IntotrUI Upiop-, to preparation hr tl* ptMtc ' since "ttree-fuLiflbs of eas Hobdays steteSTtLTbe Late* XMrpartmmt of U* -AJWH0i? heerlnga More the Labor death* among igfcestos' Departmeet Lag December ,J>t,-ltalB*nw d Baud Brook, HqartmBk, dm IUD and Local . suitbon warfare; for focmipk^' placed in effect gn emergency; rifled iDe anaotSar.if l^pte,., . SCO officials, Invc - been - . are due io"cancere : ' at*adai4*f fisa ^fibers per' , jitbaeSqg-itafaroKtioo. 'in 1here are presently mi dita Support. tt -*U 4 Jtt# ' TSitmg ham for. the pr- - n isThefavrtteu-cJ.ths tabor7 ! hq-edBhg nwntiera pairto year* Bo hu aeen u ftM of 'mesothelioma. a cHf ao rue that* majority dffiw medic*! prtrMfob^tti OOt t*u te U until iwuUy. maveBttBgk rayoestTor be , mrtiMs atretjfwad at- fccflve permanentdniwiiWI fUBSirdinii&iMoiuiKkftiK Ckxnptitiofiiland Safety Health Act, to protect werkm who are eaptwed to aeberte* fiber dust. -' The IhntfdPapernuluKe and vwtta of ;ea*sr, sodbas DephrtQMt's titiblM hearing* ` mcsotheUtimar,according ta to -detarxlm elpt" the mvOn, SdUtoff and Holadiy, sCsty Mswdard ihdcfol U. .Hum, they dm, any TLV for tJepartment hts until JtsyTb asbestos `*wwM have to be las come im with mw standiid;" than it needed to prevent . actiadltig t* Joseph Mondrow, aibestoaia/Jf wc are to bop: to praidpt.to Lee*) 0. prsvsqt asbastea-fddtiiied Mr! Mcpdrteac^togethrr with In Its statement to thepreta, the ITO said that the amnrtim *t U* Manvffl* asbesiiz plant "teens of the reasons why we .demanded an emergency Papmvnrken International Union, in a statement to the press Tneiday. said that currant information on asbestos related diseases cancer." What has hindered the asbestos industry and physicians in tbs collection of significant data relating to Mr. Ktioger and Marshall Smith. UPP representative and former Local MO president, attended the Washington re*aaingt this week. The union standard for asbestM " The 1UD itatetont declared U it estimated that in Manville "excels mortality due to lung cancer involving asbestos may be expected to reach you to 300 cases" The Jchns-Manvilie plant here ha# been recused on because -the facts am best documented in Manville and because these facts illustrate the need for stringent con trols." Local soo, United Papermakers and Paper-workers, officials lor quite some time have been arguing for safer working conditions at the J-M plant. Last year they asked for among wwfcwt at the Manville plant "may well be indicative Of similar tragic health problems in many other areas where workm are exposed to the irhalation of asbestos dust." The UPP urged the Secretary of Labor to "quickly onoct a permanent enforcement standard on asbestos, with criteria at least as strict as those suggested bv Dr. Setikoff as a necessary step in protecting the health and lives of asbestos workers." Dr. Setikoff together with Dr. A. Holiday. chief engineer ml the Environmental Science Laboratory, Mount Sinai School TLVs for Ibe prevention of officials were accompanied by ashesus-induced d-ststnn . is a J-M employee who livee in the long period which must ' Manville and who Is afflicted elapse between inhalation of with mesotkeliama,. The asbestos ind evidence of worker Dan Maeiborski. disease. testified before IUD officials It can take up to 3o years The locaH-M plani until 1044 from onset of exposure to used a TLV of five million asbestos for disease to become particlH per cubic foot, a apparent. Due to this ume Standard established by the factor and due to the fact that American Conference of very few reliable dust Governmental Hygienists in measurements were mad: so 12H That* standards were years go, toe effectiveness of reduced twoj^anago to allow TLVs used then are unreliable. a TLV ofrfjtre fibers jmi i.iihiL'- Since no "safe" TLVs {or ccntimeter^wrih-a^eilrag of 10 asbestos are known, Ors, fibers per cc. Selikofl and Holiday charge in lose, j-m adopted a TLV of that a discnation of TLVs is six fibers per cc with the "irfeleven! to current oc previse that any pew or rebuilt I the assistance of Hr. Irving JSetikoff. one of {he country's Of Medicine, last year sub mitted brief to the Labor cupational asbestos exposure of du*t control systems attain a workmen." The two iciertilts level of two fibers per cc. GAF 16252