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The Asbestos Worker was the journal of the insulators' union, the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers, written for its members: the men who covered pipes and boilers with asbestos, magnesia and cork. These are the 1 issue we have from 1961 (Volume 15), free to read online or download. The index below lists their articles by topic; each entry opens the issue at its page.
- Series
- The Asbestos Worker, Volume 15
- Date
- 1961
- Library no.
- ACL Doc 21502 · asbestosclaims.law/library/21502
- Rights
- Published in 1961 by the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers. The journal was never registered for copyright and no issue was renewed (searched in the Catalog of Copyright Entries and the Copyright Office's records, November 2026); in the public domain in the United States.
The issues
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November
32 pp. · PDF, 2.9 MB
Index of articles
The journal printed no index of its own. AsbestosClaims.Law compiled this one from each issue's contents, under topic headings like those of our other magazine indexes. Page numbers are the printed ones; where a page carries none (the covers), it is counted from the cover.
No articles match.
Dust, Disease & Safety
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
Labor Movement & Legislation
Local Unions & Correspondence
Members
Special Features
Union Business
- From the General President, by C. W. Sickles (reduction of faithful-discharge bonding surcharge from 30 to 25 per cent; bank embezzlement figures; Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation, continued on page 11) Nov. 1961, p. 1
- Special Meeting of the General Executive Board, August 10, 1961 (non-union work in the Carolinas, "preparation, as well as, distribution and application" at the job site, union labels, subletting, listing wages and fringes) Nov. 1961, p. 2
- Business Report: new members, reinstatements and withdrawal cards Nov. 1961, p. 6
- Minutes of Conference Meetings: Midwest States (Wichita, Conference Pension Plan), Middle Atlantic States (Newark, Local 32 50th anniversary), Southwest States and others (missile base work, preparation of material, plasterers spraying insulation, Sheet Metal Workers dispute) Nov. 1961, p. 13
- Official Directory: International officers and local union directory Nov. 1961, p. 24
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“The Asbestos Worker, 1961.” 1961. The Asbestos Worker, Volume 15. AsbestosClaims.Law Library, ACL Doc 21502. https://asbestosclaims.law/library/21502.
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