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FILE NAME: Texaco (TEX)
DATE: 1967 June 14
DOC#: TEX035
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - 'Asbestos Hazards' Protest
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U..10J h*ai;li ti i/,n<ls, claimed
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jDu.tikv. ami Aberdeen. Thor estimated that all but 100 f the TIM men in Scotland khl | stopped waits. A meeting of I sir.-i-rs in (iU jow jm iaA ijr aireed tn tottfmuc the slrikc, and
they arc ton expected to meet
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nl she unofticul strike aic con. wknnji ImUis a demonstration
Iin Sim - sow Itu t day.
| Mr (antes McKenna, insulating I rts.ncon' blanch secretary (or I Scotland of the Transport and j General ttm lcrs' Union, said the j un.on iraeied the men In return
to noil, to allow ncRolialmns tn I continue. "We led. however,
tka; MwtitijeiB bare yon on . too tone." ha aid.
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J A report prepared rccentlv Hf ; two Glasgow pat M iiiir about I ith M n h -- caused by inbahng ; asiviroj dust -- was read to those
' >ho attended yesterday's meeting, i It Mated that without a tong 1 hropsy a diagnosis of asbestosi
I" i e t m be made. "In view r.( the p s n fcaitards to health -*hicli even scry abort teriods of espowre to asbestos ! ran eventually cause, the increased ,} uses of asbestos moat be viewed 1 1srUrt disquiet.''
' th e report sa>s the Incidenee of 1 astvstosis appears tn be increasing. * and it may come to assume great 1 p,t>l-e health imparlance becaus
r i dm bKicased importatioa and 1 more widespread nse of asbestos. - The strikers claim that in the . pa.t five years there have been I S i < ie i o t asbcstoUs in Glasgow
and 14 deaths.
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