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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 1945 (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
- 1945
- Rights
- Published in 1945 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
48 pp. · PDF, 2.9 MB
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July
48 pp. · PDF, 3.0 MB
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October
40 pp. · PDF, 2.5 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
- Buy Christmas Seals (tuberculosis appeal) Oct. 1945, p. 39
Editorials & Essays
- The Asbestos Worker masthead Apr. 1945, p. 22
- The Asbestos Worker masthead July 1945, p. 9
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
- Overtime Wage Rates (Secretary-Treasurer's letter; Secretary of Labor Perkins's orders on premium pay in construction; Building Trades Department letter) Jan. 1945, p. 4
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) Jan. 1945, p. 10
- General President's report concluded: thousands of Plasterers and others working as "emergency Asbestos Workers"; International Form Joint Trade Agreement signed with the United States Heat and Frost Company Apr. 1945, p. 5
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) Apr. 1945, p. 10
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) July 1945, p. 10
- Treasury Department ruling on income tax withholding for travel reimbursements, Local 32 (letter to James A. Roche) Oct. 1945, p. 6
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) Oct. 1945, p. 34
Labor Movement & Legislation
- Top Priority for Post-War Housing (American Federation of Labor housing program) Jan. 1945, p. 20
- A.F. of L. Hits Compulsory Labor Law Jan. 1945, p. 21
- Red Cross and organized labor (labor support of Red Cross work) Apr. 1945, p. 31
- Labor Aids Victims of War (clothing drive of the Labor League for Human Rights) Apr. 1945, p. 45
- AFL Enters Pact with Contractors to Settle Disputes Without Government (Building Trades unions and the Associated General Contractors) (unnumbered closing page) July 1945, p. 45
- Letters from the Building and Construction Trades Department: Navy Yards and Docks praise; Undersecretary of War Patterson on the Clinton and Hanford projects Oct. 1945, p. 17
Local Unions & Correspondence
- Letters from locals on members in service (Lt. William G. McEachern, Local 78, Silver Star; Gaspich, Cahill, Land, Allen killed in action; Pvt. Raymond Smith wounded) Jan. 1945, p. 17
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, December 9, 1944) Jan. 1945, p. 22
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Boston, December 16, 1944) Jan. 1945, p. 23
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, December 9, 1944) Jan. 1945, p. 24
- Minutes: Southwest States Conference of Asbestos Workers (New Orleans, November 18, 1944) Jan. 1945, p. 26
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions Jan. 1945, p. 30
- Correspondence: Vice President Thompson's report on the Northwest (Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco; Thirteenth Naval District conference); letters from locals on members killed or wounded in service Apr. 1945, p. 17
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, March 10, 1945) Apr. 1945, p. 23
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Providence, March 24, 1945; wage petitions and the "Little Steel Formula" limit) Apr. 1945, p. 24
- Minutes: Central States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Columbus, Ohio) Apr. 1945, p. 25
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia) Apr. 1945, p. 26
- Minutes: Southwest States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Little Rock; Camden, Ark., job) Apr. 1945, p. 28
- Minutes: Southeast States Conference of Asbestos Workers Apr. 1945, p. 30
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions Apr. 1945, p. 34
- Letters from locals on members in service (Myer wounded; Calegory returned from prisoner of war; Snyder, Criss killed) July 1945, p. 21
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, June 2, 1945) July 1945, p. 26
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Hartford, June 30, 1945) July 1945, p. 27
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, June 9, 1945; includes Secretary Sickles on his European trip) July 1945, p. 29
- Minutes: Western States Conference of Asbestos Workers (San Francisco, June 25, 1945) July 1945, p. 30
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions July 1945, p. 34
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, September 1, 1945) Oct. 1945, p. 9
- Minutes: Southeast States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Atlanta, September 22, 1945) Oct. 1945, p. 10
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, September 8, 1945) Oct. 1945, p. 11
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Springfield, September 22, 1945; wage increases; Philip Carey representative Oliver Jenizell mourned) Oct. 1945, p. 12
- Letter from Local 11, Baltimore: shore party for the asbestos workers in the McCormick Asbestos Company shop Oct. 1945, p. 18
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions Oct. 1945, p. 22
Materials & Manufacturers
- Special Session of the General Executive Board (Owens-Illinois Glass and Owens-Corning Fiberglas; glass insulation premiums; concluded on page 16) Jan. 1945, p. 1
- Letter from Ehret Magnesia Mfg. Co. on Kentucky Pipe Covering Co., Louisville (not an approved contractor; 85 per cent magnesia; union shop) July 1945, p. 21
Members
- Service Honor Roll (members in the armed forces, reported since the last issue) Jan. 1945, p. 3
- Members killed in action: John Olmo (Local 16), Homer C. Land (Local 87), John Gaspich (Local 12) (photographs) Jan. 1945, p. 9
- Deceased members (list of members, with registration numbers and locals) Jan. 1945, p. 12
- Members killed, missing or wounded in service (photographs: Madison, Fitzgerald, Szikora, Watson, Congrady, Massey and others) Apr. 1945, p. 6
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) Apr. 1945, p. 12
- Honor Roll (members in service, reported since the last issue) Apr. 1945, p. 14
- Photographs of members killed in service: A. C. Cooper, Myron A. Truxton, Francis A. Simpson, William Baruxis, James U. North, Lawrence E. Chandler Apr. 1945, p. 15
- Service Honor Roll July 1945, p. 3
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) July 1945, p. 6
- Photographs of members killed or missing in service (Parker, Criss, Noble and others) July 1945, p. 8
- Missing-in-action photographs; charters, new members, suspended and reinstated members, withdrawal cards July 1945, p. 17
- Photographs of members in service: H. L. Klinger (U.S.S. Shadwell), Lawrence L. Borsky, William C. Sheahan and others Oct. 1945, p. 5
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) Oct. 1945, p. 7
- Photographs of members killed in action (Ernest P. Roy, Robert C. Duffy and others) Oct. 1945, p. 8
- Sickles appointed to the Wage Adjustment Board for the Building and Construction Industry (Secretary of Labor's letter); Correspondence: Local 1, Local 55 and Local 2 letters on members in service Oct. 1945, p. 15
Special Features
- Captain John A. Sullivan, Local 17, visits Washington (Air Corps service record) Apr. 1945, p. 22
- Shambles of Europe, by C. W. Sickles (Secretary-Treasurer's account of a Building and Construction Trades Department tour of European battlefields and camps) July 1945, p. 12
- Army and Engineers thanks for union gifts (cigarettes for troops); The Asbestos Worker masthead Oct. 1945, p. 19
The Trade & Its Work
Union Business
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: visits, conferences, AFL and Building Trades conventions) Jan. 1945, p. 2
- Charters issued and disbanded; new members initiated; reinstatements and withdrawal cards Jan. 1945, p. 13
- The Asbestos Worker masthead; Special Session concluded; notice of General Executive Board meeting (March 12, 1945) Jan. 1945, p. 16
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) Jan. 1945, p. 28
- Annual Session of the General Executive Board (March 12-15, 1945: reports, trial decisions, audit; Mr. G. S. Mann of Armstrong Cork visits) Apr. 1945, p. 1
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: Newark, Columbus, Providence, Atlanta conferences) Apr. 1945, p. 4
- Charters issued and disbanded; new members initiated (Local 62, Superior, Wisconsin, Globe Shipyard only, chartered) Apr. 1945, p. 7
- Members suspended for non-payment of dues; reinstated members Apr. 1945, p. 8
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) Apr. 1945, p. 32
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: Elmira non-union job, Louisville, Evansville, Local 12 election, Hartford conference) July 1945, p. 1
- War Bonds Purchased by the International and Affiliated Local Unions July 1945, p. 4
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) July 1945, p. 32
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: Chicago Executive Council meetings, Buffalo, Syracuse; building material restrictions lifted) Oct. 1945, p. 3
- New members initiated since the last issue Oct. 1945, p. 4
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) Oct. 1945, p. 20
- Notice to affiliated locals: wartime Improver age limit and examination rules end Oct. 1945, p. 32
- Charters issued and disbanded; new members; withdrawal cards Oct. 1945, p. 33
In the Library
Pages on this site about the products and companies these issues name:
- Asbestos Pipe Insulation and Block Insulation Exposure: Letter from Ehret Magnesia Mfg. Co. on Kentucky Pipe Covering Co., Louisville (not an approved contractor; 85 per cent magnesia; union shop) (July 1945, p. 21)
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