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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 4 issues we have from 1914 (Volume 1), 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 1
- Date
- 1914
- Rights
- Published in 1914 by the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers; in the public domain (published in the United States before 1931).
The issues
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January
22 pp. · PDF, 1.2 MB
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April
22 pp. · PDF, 1.2 MB
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July
22 pp. · PDF, 1.2 MB
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October
54 pp. · PDF, 3.5 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
- General President urges locals to work for compensation legislation like New York's new law: 'in times of health to prepare for injury' Jan. 1914, p. 8
- Empire State compensation: New York Compensation Bill becomes law January 1, 1914 Jan. 1914, p. 11
- Buchanan Safety Appliance Act read to the convention: scaffolds, hoists, cranes, ladders and elevators to be built to protect life and limb Oct. 1914, p. 17
- Safety Appliance Act, continued (swinging scaffolds, elevator gates and notices) Oct. 1914, p. 18
Editorials & Essays
- The knocker and the disrupter Jan. 1914, p. 14
- Organization is labor's hope Apr. 1914, p. 14
- Election of union officials Apr. 1914, p. 15
- Labor Day July 1914, p. 14
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
- Detroit Local 25 strike: men returned to the Johns-Manville shop at 45, 47 1/2 and 50 cents an hour; the Carey Co. and Conkling still held out Apr. 1914, p. 6
- President's report: Local 25 Detroit, 25-cent assessment ordered; locals told not to work outside the agreement radius for the Carey Co. Apr. 1914, p. 7
- Detroit strike won: Carey Co. brought into line when Cleveland business agent pulled the Carey men; Manville Co. and Johnson already signed; Conkling still outside July 1914, p. 5
- Detroit Local 25 on the strike: Johns-Manville and Johnson agree, Carey brought into line, 86 per cent organized, three-year agreements July 1914, p. 15
- Wages in the different locals (hourly rates for journeymen and helpers) July 1914, p. 17
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: agreements signed in Philadelphia, Hartford, Buffalo, Rochester, Providence, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Milwaukee Oct. 1914, p. 7
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: wage scales by local, journeymen and helpers, from 25 cents upward Oct. 1914, p. 8
- Houston Local and outlaw members: letter naming the three contracting firms in Texas, H. W. Johns-Manville Co., Keasbey-Mattison Co. and Armstrong Cork Co. Oct. 1914, p. 16
- General President's report: Buffalo and Rochester agreements with Johns-Manville Company, Keasbey & Mattison, Buffalo Asbestos Company, Patton Company, Rae & Company; Armstrong Cork signs for Hartford Oct. 1914, p. 38
- General President's report: Milwaukee, first trade agreement with the H. W. Johns-Manville Co. after meeting Vice-President Manville; asbestos ceiling dispute with plasterers settled Oct. 1914, p. 41
- General President's report: Detroit strike; Johns-Manville shop signed; Carey Co. forced in; Conkling Oct. 1914, p. 46
Labor Movement & Legislation
- Labor wants this bill passed (Stone bill on prison-made goods) Jan. 1914, p. 3
- American Federation of Labor news Jan. 1914, p. 10
- C. W. Post favors labor union Jan. 1914, p. 11
- U. S. Supreme Court dismisses the Gompers-Mitchell-Morrison contempt case Apr. 1914, p. 3
- American Federation of Labor news Apr. 1914, p. 11
- American Federation of Labor news July 1914, p. 12
- Resolutions: single tax / land speculation; opposition to national prohibition Oct. 1914, p. 12
- President has signed anti-trust bill (Clayton Act): labor exempt, injunctions regulated, jury trial in indirect contempts Oct. 1914, p. 29
- American Federation of Labor news (war tax, packers hire extra men, 'one union in the pipe industry') Oct. 1914, p. 32
Local Unions & Correspondence
- Correspondence: St. Louis Local 1 on trade conditions since the four-year agreement; Local 18; Philadelphia Local 14 Jan. 1914, p. 12
- Monthly reports of the locals Jan. 1914, p. 16
- Correspondence: appeal for Colorado striking miners; local letters Apr. 1914, p. 16
- Correspondence: Detroit (Local 25 strike story by Business Agent Brinker), Wilkesbarre Local 38, Omaha Local 39 July 1914, p. 15
Members
Special Features
- Labor history notes: asbestos workers organized nationally; first effort was the 1887 strike of the old Salamander Association in New York for a $3 minimum Jan. 1914, p. 17
- Executive Council, Building Trades Department, A. F. of L., Atlantic City, June 1914 (photograph with names, including Mullaney of the insulators) July 1914, p. 10
- Joseph A. Mullaney, re-elected President (portrait) Oct. 1914, p. 2
- Thomas J. McNamara, re-elected Secretary-Treasurer (portrait) Oct. 1914, p. 31
- John McCormick, elected First Vice-President (portrait) Oct. 1914, p. 34
The Trade & Its Work
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: Kansas City local lost cork slab work to the plasterers Apr. 1914, p. 9
- General President on complaints about cork slab insulation, wire-work in steam insulation and plastic asbestos applied to ceilings: 'ours by right of possession' July 1914, p. 6
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: Cleveland local in dispute with bricklayers and plasterers over cork block July 1914, p. 8
- Resolution No. 1: uniform apprenticeship in 'the Covering and Insulation Industry' (limit number, lengthen term, schooling of apprentices) Oct. 1914, p. 10
- Resolution No. 4 (Downs and Schultz, Local 3 Cleveland): bricklayers and plasterers campaign to eliminate slab cork work Oct. 1914, p. 11
- Resolution No. 14 (John Fisher, Boston): add asbestos curtains to the jurisdiction claim Oct. 1914, p. 13
- Grievance committee on slab cork: convention instructs the incoming Executive Board to fight for this work; no local to sign a cork agreement outside the rules Oct. 1914, p. 15
- Letter proposing a separate local for sheet cork work; Armstrong Cork Co. would sign with such a local Oct. 1914, p. 17
- Constitution, Article II: members are those applying 'magnesia, asbestos, hairfelt, woolfelt, cork, mineral wool, infusorial earth, mercerized silk, flax fiber, fire-felt, asbestos paper, asbestos curtain, asbestos mill board' Oct. 1914, p. 20
- General President on cork slab form of insulation, wire work and plastic asbestos applied to ceilings Oct. 1914, p. 47
Union Business
- General President's report (Seattle A. F. of L. and Building Trades Department conventions; Portland, Local 18 agreement) Jan. 1914, p. 5
- General President's report, continued (Local 12 and 22 carfare dispute settled; locals urged to work for compensation legislation) Jan. 1914, p. 8
- Secretary-Treasurer's masthead notice and report (Official Journal, quarterly) Jan. 1914, p. 9
- Directory of general and local officers Jan. 1914, p. 18
- General President's report (Syracuse, Detroit strike, Hartford, Cincinnati) Apr. 1914, p. 5
- Report of Secretary-Treasurer (Detroit assessment, Kansas City cork slab work won by the plasterers) Apr. 1914, p. 9
- Directory of general and local officers Apr. 1914, p. 18
- Convention call: Ninth Biennial Convention, Toronto, October 5, 1914 (representation of locals) July 1914, p. 3
- General President's report (Detroit strike, Carey Co. capitulates after Cleveland men are pulled; strike benefits raised) July 1914, p. 5
- General President's closing remarks on the biennial convention July 1914, p. 7
- Report of the Secretary-Treasurer (Cleveland trouble with bricklayers and plasterers over cork block) July 1914, p. 8
- Convention credentials received July 1914, p. 9
- Directory of general and local officers July 1914, p. 19
- Convention minutes, Ninth Convention, Toronto, October 5, 1914 (Walker House): credentials and opening Oct. 1914, p. 3
- Convention minutes: credentials committee, seating of delegates, telegrams Oct. 1914, p. 4
- Report of the General Secretary-Treasurer to the Ninth Convention (locals organized, agreements, membership, finances, the Journal) Oct. 1914, p. 5
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: agreements signed since the last convention; asbestos ceiling dispute settled; Detroit assessment Oct. 1914, p. 6
- Secretary-Treasurer's report: finances and the Official Journal; committee on the General President's report Oct. 1914, p. 9
- Committee reports: grievances, resolutions and apprenticeship (Resolution No. 1, James Grady, Chicago, on apprenticeship abuses) Oct. 1914, p. 10
- Finance Committee report (receipts and expenses for two years, delinquent locals) Oct. 1914, p. 14
- Committee on Constitution and By-Laws: report and Resolutions (withdrawal cards, working permits) Oct. 1914, p. 19
- Constitution and By-Laws of the International Association (preamble, Article I and II membership) Oct. 1914, p. 20
- Constitution and By-Laws, continued (local unions, officers, Executive Board, pledges, duties) Oct. 1914, p. 21
- Convention: afternoon session Thursday, October 8; constitution continued (autonomy, working in other jurisdictions) Oct. 1914, p. 24
- Election of officers: Fisher second vice-president, Landis third vice-president and others Oct. 1914, p. 29
- General President's report to the Ninth Convention, Toronto, October 5, 1914 (A. F. of L. Rochester and Seattle conventions; organizing the Eastern locals) Oct. 1914, p. 35
- General President's report: Philadelphia Local 14 reorganized; Toronto employers signed Oct. 1914, p. 44
- General President's report: Albany and Troy Local 40 formed; local meetings and strikes advice Oct. 1914, p. 48
- Directory of general and local officers Oct. 1914, p. 51
In the Library
Pages on this site about the products and companies these issues name:
- Asbestos Rogue’s Gallery Johns-Manville: Detroit Local 25 strike: men returned to the Johns-Manville shop at 45, 47 1/2 and 50 cents an hour; the Carey Co. and Conkling still held out (Apr. 1914, p. 6)
- Asbestos Pipe Insulation and Block Insulation Exposure: Constitution, Article II: members are those applying 'magnesia, asbestos, hairfelt, woolfelt, cork, mineral wool, infusorial earth, mercerized silk, flax fiber, fire-felt, asbestos paper, asbestos curtain, asbestos mill board' (Oct. 1914, p. 20)
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