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I D A/r- "AA/ ards." He said industry was cooperating witli dent, said the typographers have death records Cancer Society Sets Study of Exposure Hazards to Workers t e* the study. dating to 1904 and also keep complete health Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond, a leading cancer records of current members, including a quar researcher, noted that it would be equally ben terly report on length of exposure to potentially eficial if the study shows that some suspect liazardous substances. agents aren't harmful. He said the union will provide this informa Left unsaid at the news conference was what effect the study could have on workmen's compensation if it can ba shown that many tion to the cancer society researchers and also will attempt to trace members who have left the union since 1963. Workmen's Compensation Could Be Affected if Results Prove workers contract cancer as a result of hazard ous substances handled on the job. George H. R. Taylor, executive secretary of the AFL- Incidence of Disease Grows 6 CIO's standing committee on safety and occu pational health, said after the conference, how ever, that "as move health hazards are dis By a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter NEW YORK--The American Cancer Soci ety, with the help of some cf the nation's major cerned, there is going to be an increase" in the number of diseases covered under workmen's compensation laws. Such coverage would in crease. he said, "until ouch time as conditions trade unions, says it's going to conduct a mas arc improved." sive study of the exposure of workers to chemi The cancer society said it would make an cals and other agents that might cause cancer. annual donation of $1 million to support the sta The mi!!ion-do!lar-a-year study--if its results tistical side of the study and hoped for dona confirm that, some substances commonly used tions from'other sources as well. in industry can raise the incidence of cancer The first union to participate in the study, among workers--could have a malor imnact on New Vr.Hr Ty;''-'grrp!'.i--! Union No. C, i.utcd levels of workmen's compensation in years to that its 1G1.0C0 members are exposed to the come. possibly harmful effects of curbcn black, metal As the general public also is in contact with many of the same substances, the study also fumes, lead filings, and vaiicus chemicals, inks and dyes. Bortiarn A. Powers, union presi will look into the relationship of environmental pollution to cancer, the society said at a news conference. It's estimated that 50 million workers in the U.S. are exposed cn the job to dust, fumes, va pors, chemicals and radioactive materials. Some of these substances, such as asbestos and radioactive materials, are known to cause can cer. Others, such as carbon black, benzy-a-pyroiie, sulphur compounds, oxides of nitrogen, in secticides and some fertilizers, silicates, some dyes, and various solvents are suspect, the cancer society said. The basis of the study will be the volumi nous death records kept by the unions on their deceased members, some of which go back into the last century. Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, director of the Environmental Sc'ences Laboratory at Mount.Sinai School of Medicine here, said at the news conference that the study would at tempt to "define where hazards exist so we can cooperate with industry in removing those haz-. V CAPCO KIN 0001413