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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1975 Nov DOC PAINT041 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal president DEFENDANT'S president president president president president specific- 10041 Journal NEWS AND FEATURES Inside Front page Cover 4 From the General President AFL to Work for a Viable America 6 Building Trades Meeting Keyed to Jobs 7 Bumper Stickers a Political Must 9 America A Nation of Nations 15 IBPAT Backs Arthritis Telethon _ DEPARTMENTS page 16 Local District Council News 19 General Executive Board Minutes 23 Labor Beat 24 Canadian Labour 25 The Sports Scene 26 Financial Report DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL # COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL SIGN ' PICTORIAL COACH @ AUTOMOBILE e AIRCRAFT e MACHINERY @ RAILWAY EQUIPMENT e SHIP AND SCENIC PAINTING DECORATING e PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING @ DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK GLAZING CARPET LINOLEUM e SOFT TILE @ PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE 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 the Brotherhood or as The Painters Allied Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising Contract forms or stationery and 750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Published monthly by the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Second Class mail entry authorized at Washington D.C. Additional entry at Indianapolis Indiana Change of address cards on Form 3579 should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Subscription Price 2.00 per year Single copy 20 cents PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK VOLUME 89 No. 11 NOVEMBER 1975 The official journal of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices ' S. FRANK RAFTERY General President 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 ' MICHAEL DISILVESTRO General Treasurer 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District 1443 Westchester Blvd. 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 Dr. Irvine Calif 92664 ; GUY LEBER 5th District 1930 Bishop Lane Louisville Ky 40218 ROBERT J. PETERSDORF 6th District 13639 Ferris Ave. Apple Valley Minn 55068 WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 District ' i i i ot beter are ermons ee myn ee se coln Neb has ordered a construction company to give back pay plus interest to five workers who were fired when they reto work in unsafe condi- spokesman said he believed it to the first such decision handed down by the courts The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 prohibits discipline or termination of work- who refuse in good faith to expose themselves to dangerbus conditions if an employer refuses to correct such condi- I AFL affiliates are being asked to cooperate in a Labor Studies Center survey of any his- orical materials they posses that may be useful to the develop- ment of national labor archives One of the range objec- lives of the federation's Studies Center is the establishment of labor archives at its new cam- The United Farm Workers reportedly has surged ahead of Teamsters in its bid to repre- We Sent California field hands.. Since a state law requiring Secret balloting went into effect on August 28 the UFW has won 135 elections and the Teamsters 91 a recent tally shows Results appear to bear out a recent statement by AFL Vice President Paul Hall that if the state's new farm labor law is conducted convention in San Francisco re- cently renewed the federation's commitment to the UFW fairly votes would go to the Organized labor urged the UFW Hall president of the Seafarers was chairman of a special National Safety Council to spearhead a campaign against occupational diseases the silent panel the AFL Executive Council sent to California for a killers which take the lives of more than 100,000 workers each hand look at farm labor election practices The CIO year William W. Winpisinger vice president of the Machinists told Consumer Prices a session of the Labor Conference at the council's annual Na- The U.S. Consumer Price In- dex 1961 = 100 for September 1975 was 163.6 a 0.5 percent rise over August's figure of 162.8 and 7.7 percent increase for the tional Safety Congress in Chi- cago that up to now the stress has been on accident prevention -the dropping hammer syn- drome month period since Septem- ber 1974 But the primary threat to workers today is constant ex- Periodically after an index fig- posure to toxic substances ure becomes too large govern- Winpisinger said Workers wind ments reestimate price increases beginning with a new base year The percentage increase how- ever from one year to another is not affected the index number only will appear lower Statistics Canada reports a revision of the base year for Canada's CPI to 1971. Thus Canadian statistics now are measured against what 100 would buy in 1971 - Statistics Canada reports the September 1975 CPI 1971= 100 was 141.5 a slight 0.2 per- up selling not labor but years of their lives to employers He noted that 97 percent of materials workers handle are untested for their range dan- gers to health Meanwhile a revised federal job health standard to reduce worker exposure to cancer ing asbestos fibers was being proposed by the Labor Depart- . ment along with new exposure limits on lead beryllium and 13 additional toxic chemicals cent increase over August's figure of 141.2 This amounts to a 10.6 Other toxic substances in the proposed standards are toluene percent increase for the 12month period since September trichloroethylene butyltoluene cumene ethyl benzene 1974. Canada's CPI had been increasing at an annual rate of 11 percent or more Methyl styrene styrene vinyl toluene cyclohexane camphor mesityl oxide methyl heptanone and ozone THE JOURNAL NOVEMBER 23