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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 1944 (Volume 12), 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 12
- Date
- 1944
- Rights
- Published in 1944 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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January
44 pp. · PDF, 2.8 MB
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April
40 pp. · PDF, 2.6 MB
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July
40 pp. · PDF, 2.6 MB
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October
40 pp. · PDF, 2.3 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
Editorials & Essays
- Editorial page (masthead; "Tomorrow's Job": postwar building boom forecast by the Producers' Council committee headed by Wilson Wright of the Armstrong Cork Co.) Jan. 1944, p. 19
- Editorial page (masthead; letter on Lt. Kraus) Apr. 1944, p. 18
- Philip Pearl column on labor news and the soldiers' attitude toward labor July 1944, p. 2
- Editorial page (masthead; "Do You Know?" on Social Security wage records) July 1944, p. 19
- Editorial page (masthead) Oct. 1944, p. 19
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
- Treasury Department ruling on board allowance paid by the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company to Local 2 (Pittsburgh) members Jan. 1944, p. 5
- Local Wage Rates Jan. 1944, p. 12
- Local Wage Rates Apr. 1944, p. 12
- Local Wage Rates (including Navy Yard, shipyard and distillery plant rates) July 1944, p. 12
- Notice on withholding tax: Philip Carey Manufacturing Company inquiry, Bureau of Internal Revenue reversal of February 19, 1944, and the appeal by the International (with letter from AFL counsel Joseph A. Padway) July 1944, p. 16
- Local Wage Rates Oct. 1944, p. 12
Labor Movement & Legislation
- Resolution of the Wage Adjustment Board on payment of travel expense (November 17, 1943) Jan. 1944, p. 20
- Resolution of the Wage Adjustment Board on payment of subsistence (January 6, 1944) Jan. 1944, p. 21
- Closed Shop Upheld in Florida High Court (Tampa Shipbuilding Company contract with 14 AFL unions) Apr. 1944, p. 2
- Be Sure You Vote and Follow the A. F. of L. Policy: Elect Our Friends, Defeat Our Enemies Oct. 1944, p. 2
- Push Construction Action Now To Promote Recovery, Keenan Urges (WPB Vice Chairman Joseph Keenan, Bricklayers convention) Oct. 1944, p. 20
Local Unions & Correspondence
- Correspondence: Local 3 and Local 6 letters on members killed in service (Sergeant Thomas E. Dalton; Staff Sergeant John G. Johnson); letter from the South Pacific Jan. 1944, p. 18
- Minutes of Southeast States Conference, Atlanta, December 11, 1943 Jan. 1944, p. 23
- Minutes of Middle Atlantic States Conference, Philadelphia Jan. 1944, p. 23
- Minutes of New York State Conference, Syracuse Jan. 1944, p. 25
- Minutes of Southwest States Conference, Houston Jan. 1944, p. 26
- Minutes of New England States Conference Jan. 1944, p. 27
- Minutes of Western States Conference Jan. 1944, p. 28
- Correspondence: letters on Lieutenant Thomas F. Keasbey (Local 12), Staff Sergeant Matthew Kokoszka (Local 33) and Lieutenant Eugene Kraus (Local 65) Apr. 1944, p. 17
- Minutes of Southeast States Conference, Birmingham, March 11, 1944 Apr. 1944, p. 19
- Minutes of Southwest States Conference, Oklahoma City, February 26, 1944 Apr. 1944, p. 20
- Minutes of Middle Atlantic States Conference (60 percent of Essex and Hudson County work in shipyards) Apr. 1944, p. 21
- Minutes of New York State Conference (Corning Glass Company pays the $2,500 to the Red Cross) Apr. 1944, p. 22
- Minutes of Central States Conference Apr. 1944, p. 23
- Minutes of New England States Conference Apr. 1944, p. 24
- Minutes of Eastern States "B" Locals Conference Apr. 1944, p. 25
- Minutes of New York State Conference, Syracuse, June 10, 1944 (Laco Company no longer approved contractor for Philip Carey Company or Armstrong Cork Company) July 1944, p. 20
- Minutes of New England States Conference July 1944, p. 21
- Minutes of Middle Atlantic States Conference July 1944, p. 22
- Minutes of Western States Conference July 1944, p. 24
- Minutes of Southeast States Conference July 1944, p. 25
- Correspondence: Local 17, Chicago, and Local 91 letters on members killed in France (Grady, Krull, Leary); Lieutenant Keasbey a prisoner of war Oct. 1944, p. 14
- Letter from the Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers' officers (John J. Nilan, Richard E. Chase) thanking the International for emergency asbestos workers employment Oct. 1944, p. 16
- Letters from Local 87, Corpus Christi, on missing members (Tech. Sgt. W. H. Allen) Oct. 1944, p. 17
- Minutes of New York State Conference, Syracuse, September 26, 1944 Oct. 1944, p. 21
- Minutes of New England States Conference, Springfield, Mass. Oct. 1944, p. 22
- Minutes of Middle Atlantic States Conference Oct. 1944, p. 23
- Minutes of Southeast States Conference, Atlanta, September 16, 1944 Oct. 1944, p. 25
Members
- Honor Roll: Members Who Have Joined the Armed Forces Jan. 1944, p. 6
- Members killed in the service: Olin Victor Bulgrin, F 1/C, Local 5, and Sergeant Thomas E. Dalton, Local 3 (photographs) Jan. 1944, p. 8
- In Memoriam: members named, including Sergeant Thomas Dalton and Olin V. Bulgrin (Locals 3, 5, 6, 11 and others) Jan. 1944, p. 22
- First Lieutenant Thomas F. Keasbey, Local 12, reported missing in action (photograph) Apr. 1944, p. 7
- Staff Sergeant Matthew J. Kokoszka, Local 33, reported killed in action (photograph) Apr. 1944, p. 9
- In Memoriam: members named (Locals 5, 11, 12, 14-B, 17 and others) Apr. 1944, p. 10
- Lieutenant Eugene J. Kraus, Local 65, reported killed in action (photograph) Apr. 1944, p. 11
- Honor Roll: Members in the Service Apr. 1944, p. 16
- Honor Roll: Members in the Service July 1944, p. 5
- In Memoriam: fifteen members named (Locals 1-B, 2, 5-B, 6, 12, 25, 27, 32, 45, 86) July 1944, p. 7
- Photographs: Flight Officer Edward E. Cahill (Local 3) and Lieutenant Vincent D. McCoy (Local 27), reported missing in action July 1944, p. 11
- Letters on Flight Officer Cahill (Local 3) and Lieutenant Keasbey, a prisoner in Germany (Local 12) July 1944, p. 14
- Appeal from Local 37, Evansville, for a member seriously injured in an accident July 1944, p. 15
- Members killed in action: William Grady (Local 17), Richard Leary (Local 91) and others (photographs) Oct. 1944, p. 4
- Honor Roll: Members in the Service Oct. 1944, p. 5
- Members killed in action: W. H. Mercer (Local 95), Cyril A. Askin and others (photographs) Oct. 1944, p. 6
- In Memoriam: members named (Locals 1, 2, 12 and others) Oct. 1944, p. 7
- Members reported missing in action: Sergeant G. B. Cameron and Technical Sergeant W. H. Allen, Local 87 (photographs) Oct. 1944, p. 11
Union Business
- Report of the General President (hearings before the Wage Adjustment Board on job expenses and subsistence; Local 78 suspension lifted; Badham Insulation Company wage claim) Jan. 1944, p. 3
- War Bonds Purchased by Our International and Affiliated Local Unions Jan. 1944, p. 10
- Report of the Secretary-Treasurer, Washington, January 3, 1944 (Maritime Commission praise at McCormick Asbestos Company dinner; charters issued) Jan. 1944, p. 14
- New members and suspensions Jan. 1944, p. 16
- Official Directory, Meeting Places and Addresses of Secretaries Jan. 1944, p. 30
- Annual Session of the General Executive Board, Washington, March 13-17, 1944 (Cravens case, Local 37; committee on Bureau counsel) Apr. 1944, p. 3
- Report of the General President, Washington, April 3, 1944 (Owens-Corning Buffalo shop; glass insulation on a Navy-held building at Rochester; Rhode Island Covering Company and shipyard work) Apr. 1944, p. 8
- Report of the Secretary-Treasurer (with new members, reinstatements and suspensions) Apr. 1944, p. 14
- Official Directory, Meeting Places and Addresses of Secretaries Apr. 1944, p. 26
- Report of the General President, Washington, June 30, 1944 (withholding tax on expenses and board; shipyard conferences at Savannah; death of T. A. Scully; U.S. Heat and Frost Insulating Company, vermiculite insulation, removed from Government hospital jobs) July 1944, p. 3
- New members, withdrawal cards returned and suspensions July 1944, p. 8
- Official Directory, Meeting Places and Addresses of Secretaries July 1944, p. 26
- Report of the General President, Washington, September 30, 1944 (New York State Federation of Labor convention; "emergency Asbestos Workers"; work tapering off) Oct. 1944, p. 3
- Charters issued (Bremerton, Washington, Navy Yard), new members and suspensions Oct. 1944, p. 8
- Official Directory, Meeting Places and Addresses of Secretaries Oct. 1944, p. 26
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