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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1978 Nov DOC PAINT060 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal ery General Reps are set to deliver the IBPAT safety message Story page 4 Trades Journal NEWS AND FEATURES page Inside Front Cover 9 10 13 31 From the General President What Troubles YOU the Most AFL Holds Safety Conference Why Work Laws Mean Less The General Treasurer Reports DEPARTMENTS page 15 20 25 27 Local and District Council News Bacon Forum Sports and Recreation Financial Report DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL ' COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL @ SIGN @ PICTORIAL COACH @ AUTOMOBILE 'AIRCRAFT MACHINERY @ RAILWAY EQUIPMENT ' SHIP AND SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING @ PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING e DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK GLAZING @ CARPET @ LINOLEUM S OFT UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other documents of any description must not designate them as The Official Journal of Brotherhood or as The Painters and Allied Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising Contract forms or stationery Robert J. Petersdorf Publister 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Allied Second Class mail entry Authorized at Washington D.C. POSTMASTERS ATTENTION Change of address cards on Form 3579 Should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND ALLIEDAL IED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Subscription Price 2.00 per year Single copy 20 cents PRINTED PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK VO~UME92 No. 11 ; NOVEMBER 1978 The official journal of the International Brotherhood of Painters and ' Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices PRESS TNTERNATIONAL 18 LABOR 4 ef SSOCIATION PRINTED IN U.S.A. S. FRANK RAFTERY General President 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF General Treasurer 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District 1443 Westchester Boulevard Westchester Ill 60153 A. L. MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 JAMES WOLFORD 3rd District 100 Devon Lane Williamsville N.Y. 14221 JACK T. COX 4th District 2212 DuPont Drive Irvine Calif 92664 - GUY LEBER 5th District 1930 Bishop Lane : Louisville Ky 40218 JAMES B. COX 6th District 8800 Blue Ridge Ext No. 10 Kansas City Mo. 64138 | WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th District 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Study Ties Cancer to Industrial Hazards From 21 to 38 percent of all cancer cases in the United States may be traced to toxic agents and industrial poisons that workers are exposed to on the job a new and expensive government study concludes The grim findings were included in a report disclosed by Sec Joseph A. Califano of the Department of Health Educa- tion & Welfare at the CIO's National Conference on Occu- pational Safety and Health percent in order to be conserva- tive The study refutes previous estimates often cited by industry groups in opposing stronger exposure standards that only to 5 percent of all cancer could be attributed to occupational factors The government epidemiologists concluded that these esti- mates had not been scientifical- ly documented _ The report points out that most linked to worker exposure arsenic benzene coke oven by products chromium iron oxide nickel and petroleum distillates Although exposure has bee reduced for some industrial car cinogens in recent years report pointed out that there are still many unregulated cancer causing substances in American workplaces ; In commenting on the finding of the new government study Quoting from the report Cali- fano said that at least 20 percent of cancer incidence may be related but he stressed Most cancers resulting from carcinogens will occur late in life Califano stressed the need focus health and safety effort on prevention He noted the eral government will spend $ billion health care this year but less than 2 billion on At least 20 percent of vention of diseases exposure cancer incidence may be related work that even that estimate is prob- ably too low dis A draft summary of the study by HEW's National Cancer Insti- tute and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences cancers resulting from exposure Califano said that an effectivel to carcinogens will occur late prevention program in the in life and that many studies and place makes both medical detect only a small fraction of economic sense He pointed oe: developing cancers While noting that there may be log that millions of workdays are to occupational injuries and single cause of cancer the ease adding that 11 billion study found that asbestos will lead to the deaths of many paid in workers compensation B claims in 1976 alone workers exploring the link between can- cer and exposure to occupational carcinogens states The total excess incidence would be from 21 to 38 percent We choose to use the figure 20 Past exposure to asbestos is expected to result in over 2 million premature cancer deaths in the next three decades the report said adding that it would account for about 17 percent of cancers detected annually dur- in over 2 million prema : ture deaths in the nex ' But the Cloth Model Costs ing those years three decades suite ey ee wy The researchers pointed out that 6.5 million to 8.5 million workers had been exposed to significant levels of asbestos against occupational health costs safety measures focus on costs dust since the 1940s and that many of the 4 million who he said It is myopic to argu that programs to protect worke encountered heavy exposures would die of lung cancer meso- are inflationary if we do count in our calculations W thelioma or gastrointestinal can- cers The total fraction of heavily exposed workers likely to die of these cancers is probably be- tween 35-44 percent the report said report The also cited the high risk ratios for various cancers those health programs and often ductivity buy safet greater p , programs to protect work : ers are inflationary