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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 0000 DOC PAINT084 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal DEFENDANT'S EXHIBIT areas morepressing ; concern theprreessingdividual berthan occupationaloccupational healindivtdualhamanendmd ocupational ItGS ocupational OurBrotherhood Brotherhood has been in in those those struggling struggling health problems that there may be vanguard some health problem with asbestos : Some of them have just last month and noticed reports about potential recent < carcinogens being found in some yyeeaarrs in : recent s communities water supply More a those ; have probably heard about some madiet's mamdaede hard be made 0: made to hard ; vague problem being associated with vinyl chloride But mostly these | bits of information are most Americans series of unrelated messages of uncertain importance The problems are wo oa WiscSubcoAppmrompriiattitones eCommitosf' : Appropriations tee g Appropriations Congressman __ Congressman Congressman SocietyHealth WashingtonJOURNAL cupationalSafetyand Washington hehad believes That life expectancy for men in this country has actually increasing been declining for over ten years now . . That a steadily increasing por- tion of Americans of all ages of both those who don't smoke as well as those who -are dying of lung liver and bladder cancer ' That perhaps 80 to 90 percent of those cancers are induced by environmental factors That certain malignant diseases of human organs most directly affected by environ- mental impurities are killing more Americans each year That certain groups of workers are contracting some of those diseases at a rate many times that of the population at large chemicals is growing alm geometrically petrochemie petrochemie percent since 1945* ' That the long latbeentcwyeen of 20 to 30 years betwen perio t dangero first exposure to a dangero chemical and the occurrence irreversible disease means it may be several decade before we have a true unde That something as inocul as freon to supposedly supposedly . could cause thousands of tional cases of skin You know individual citizen if they are suspicious or concerne concerne can take individual action They can stop smoking They cut down on their drinking The is important They can close windows when the summer dirty in a big city ns Cr and to reduce the authorized staff by 15 | But the best example of the gov- ernment's failure to respond to the - chemicals question is the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH Initially a staff of over 1100 people and a budgetin the neighborhood of 70 million was planned for NIOSH By January of 1973 a total staff of 660 had been built : 1, The last two years havebrought | erealral September revelations operating us chloridsetaff arsenic today terrifying indus- vinyl anesthetics . NIOSH's anesthetics stands paign : cam- at off down Brotherhood our at iitsts ConventioCnonvention ConventiCononventiionn 23rd Gen- September eral Convention eral inin September September in But . concerning inorganic and staf | staff staf room -: ; Le . percent at percentinless than hazards occupa- with chemical plants and and on . as20percent iin nsome of those same " communities funding today which cannot be respond- : But for that re- individually In this case by search in EPA is 2 million less people Dg significant comprehensive Instead of 736there working on alical and alical scientific research to at - the problem there are 636 packages NIOSH criteria packages by on occupationally dangerous chemicals Our committee reminded the Administration that justtwo years ago Secretaryof HEW Elliot Richard- son had suggested criteria |a minimum of 55 to 60 criteriapackages each year oo. be prepared by NIOSH and we i increased funds for NIOSH and NIEHS by 25 percent in the Labor- . HEW Appropriation bill The sign the President has said he will bill . has over- some Sciences you're government either lly diminished . magnitude The National Institute for . But if you think that this means Environmental Health Sciences we - . NIEHS had a budget of 31 have turned the corner dead you're - million in fiscal year 73 with wrong In area when strict -_ > staff of 248. NIEHS a research- fiscal restraintis a matter of : . riding national concern is no in there in cases . ers working in a wide range of assurance that is can in : areas have found serious potential sustained these gains be- iin n terms of the Ad- hazards in the Environ : iinn such industrial chemicals - ministration's . : to allow Agency willingness Protection_ Environ EPA ,, ashalo ethers and in ! chemicals the appropriated moneyto be budget of 50 million were found in contaminants everyday Since chemical : | consumerprod- . or spent the Congress willingnesstopro- Since increases supply . danger posedthen con-: uhcutnsdrseudcshof atsox.ifcosrubsitnasntcaenscbe:etihnge cvoimdiengincreases : years fwohritlheeostehageernagenciescies in federal has plastics posed by poured into common ... increasingly programs being drinking : drinking Preliminary water has _ And despite the are cut back Nowas partof its clear inflation- : warning which such discover- : package fighting : ies present to concerned scientists + budget = the President's analystsare to * preparing accept the response at the Office of Man- askbudget the Congress to a7 : : agementand Budget has* millioncut in NIEHS which would with which : form carcinogens may learned to determine price much more easily than value been prevent the agency from getting any of the increases contained the excesscancer rates as high | to cut NIEHS funding by 2 million . 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