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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Nov 15 DOC NMA050 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - Nader Unit Backs Job Safety Bills New York Thus 1857 CurrfielenNt ov 15 1970 ProQuest Historical News Thep NewaYop rk e Timr es 1s 85 - 2002 Pe NADER BACKS JOBSAFETY BILLS " Assails Efforts to Change The majority of them will die from asbestosis from inhalation of the dust and it is completely preventable said Dr. William J. Nicholson assist- ant professor of community medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Measures Labor Seeks Spe to c Thei Nea w Yl ork Tieses WASHINGTON Nov. As- serting that elk and deer are better protected than working men and women a group of environmentalists led by Ralph Nader threw their support today behind two job health and safety bills now before Con- gress They called the bills the minimum legislation Congress should approve They de nounced industry and Adminis tration efforts to change the measures which are supported by organized labor and the Democrats The Senate bill sponsored by Horrison A. Williams Jr. Demo- among crat of New Jersey is the pending business when that similar reconvenes Monday A similar House bill sponsored Representative Dominick by Daniels Democrat of New Jer- sey is scheduled for early ac- tion Both bills place broad rule- making inspection and enforce ment powers in the Secretary Labor rights Segmentsexpanded of expande employe employe employe rights Commerce of in- . by the Chamber of and the Nixon ad- ministration want making and enforcement to be done by Independent panels Industry sources have also complained about the expanded workers rights At a news conference called physicist by the environmentalists a New York City said that New York and New Jersey as- bestos workers were dying of cancer at much higher rates than the general population according to a study he had conducted 0... 400 Deaths Studied Dr. Nicholson said his study of asbestos workers in New Local 12 and New Jersey Local 32. showed that since more than 400 had died Accidents were the dominant cause of death in the early years he said but now 10 cent were dying of as- bestosis over 20 per cent were dying of lung cancer 10 per cent of cancer of the digestive tract 10 per cent of nasal mesothelioma a cancer and per cent miscellaneous cancers interelationship An interrelationship between consumer problems and oc- cupational hazards was pointed out by Glenn Paulson of Rockefeller University who said workers packaging enzyme de- tergents chronic were beginning to contact chronic respiratory dis- eases And a Boston cancer special- ist said reports were beginning to trickle in that housewives were suffering from skin probems because of the enzymes Birth Defect Warning Dr. Samuel S. Epstein of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation in Boston issued a warning about increased dangers of birth defects and damages to the genetic pool He said the sources of danger to workers came from ac- cidents noise dust irradiation and toxic chemicals Absent from the news con- ference but listed as signers of a statement of support for the health and safety legislation were a number of men promi- nent in science such Commoner of Washington Barry as Washington Uni- versity Paul Erlich of Stanford and George Wald of Harvard Aleproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction 1/15/70 11/15/70 1/57011/15/70