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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 1947 (Volumes 12 and 13), 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, Volumes 12 and 13
- Date
- 1947
- Rights
- Published in 1947 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
40 pp. · PDF, 2.3 MB
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April
45 pp. · PDF, 2.7 MB
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July
40 pp. · PDF, 2.5 MB
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October
36 pp. · PDF, 3.4 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
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) Jan. 1947, p. 10
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local) Apr. 1947, p. 10
- Local Wage Rates (hourly scales by city and local; Home Insulator local wage rates) July 1947, p. 10
- Local wage rates (regular and Home Insulator locals) Oct. 1947, p. 9
- Executive Board hearing of Minneapolis-St. Paul members' appeal (Armstrong Cork and G. A. MacArthur representatives present) Oct. 1947, p. 19
Labor Movement & Legislation
- Sound Views on Labor Problems (Louisville Courier-Journal and Des Moines Register on state closed-shop bans) Apr. 1947, p. 17
- International Complies With Labor-Management Act (Department of Labor letter and financial statement) Oct. 1947, p. 3
- Resolution No. 9 and Wednesday sessions (public works legislation) Oct. 1947, p. 14
Local Unions & Correspondence
- Letters from locals: Local 53, New Orleans, annual supper dance (photograph) Jan. 1947, p. 15
- Minutes: Midwest States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Minneapolis, October 5, 1946; first regular meeting) Jan. 1947, p. 17
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Providence, December 14, 1946) Jan. 1947, p. 18
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, December 14, 1946; death of Buffalo Business Agent Peter Angie noted) Jan. 1947, p. 19
- Minutes: Western States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Seattle, December 5, 1946; discharged shipyard workers, Mare Island Naval Shipyard) Jan. 1947, p. 20
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, December 7, 1946) Jan. 1947, p. 22
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions Jan. 1947, p. 26
- Correspondence: letters from locals (including Houston) Apr. 1947, p. 17
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, March 8, 1947) Apr. 1947, p. 21
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, March 1, 1947) Apr. 1947, p. 21
- Minutes: Southeast States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Atlanta, March 29, 1947) Apr. 1947, p. 23
- Minutes: Midwest States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Des Moines, March 22, 1947) Apr. 1947, p. 25
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Boston, April 5, 1947) Apr. 1947, p. 26
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions Apr. 1947, p. 30
- Correspondence: Local 27 (Kansas City) twelve-week strike settled; Local 42 testimonial dinner; Columbus; Local 60, Miami; Local 70, Vallejo 25th charter anniversary July 1947, p. 8
- Minutes: New York State Conference of Asbestos Workers (Syracuse, June 14, 1947) July 1947, p. 16
- Minutes: New England States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Springfield, June 28, 1947; Taft-Hartley Bill) July 1947, p. 17
- Minutes: Central States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Columbus, May 25, 1947) July 1947, p. 18
- Minutes: Middle Atlantic States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Philadelphia, June 7, 1947) July 1947, p. 20
- Minutes: Southwest States Conference of Asbestos Workers (Tulsa, April 26, 1947) July 1947, p. 21
- Directory of local unions and home insulator local unions July 1947, p. 26
- Minutes of conference meetings: Central States, New England, and other state conferences Oct. 1947, p. 25
Members
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) Jan. 1947, p. 5
- In Memoriam: Brother George R. Hennig, Local 2 (Business Agent, International Vice President) Apr. 1947, p. 6
- We Mourn Our Loss: George R. Hennig (record of service, International Vice President 1934-1947) Apr. 1947, p. 7
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) Apr. 1947, p. 19
- Workmen's Compensation to Be Increased in Illinois (awards under the compensation and occupational diseases acts); The Asbestos Worker masthead July 1947, p. 3
- In Memoriam (list of deceased members, with registration numbers and locals) July 1947, p. 4
- Photographs: testimonial dinner for David E. Mahan and veterans, Local 42, Wilmington (Hotel DuPont) July 1947, p. 5
- New members registered and members lapsed Oct. 1947, p. 23
Special Features
- Chicago, Illinois, Our Convention City (Local 17 Convention Committee) July 1947, p. 7
- Cover: the Palmer House, Chicago, and Some Facts About Your Cover Picture (contents page) Oct. 1947, p. 2
- Convention Sidelights Oct. 1947, p. 21
The Trade & Its Work
Union Business
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: Building Trades Department and A.F. of L. conventions, Minneapolis Joint Trade Board, Baltimore) Jan. 1947, p. 1
- Notice to affiliated locals: three-year improvership for G.I. Improvers (clarifying the October 1945 notice) Jan. 1947, p. 4
- Notice of General Executive Board meeting (March 1947) Jan. 1947, p. 6
- Decisions of the General President on charges between locals; Home Insulator local wage rates Jan. 1947, p. 9
- Charters issued (Locals 16-B, 36-B and others); new members; reinstatements; withdrawal cards Jan. 1947, p. 12
- Letter from Arthur D. Hill, Jr., Chairman of the Wage Adjustment Board, thanking Secretary-Treasurer Sickles for service as alternate labor member Jan. 1947, p. 15
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) Jan. 1947, p. 24
- Annual Session of the General Executive Board (March 10-13, 1947: tribute to Vice President Hennig; charter petitions; Chicago chosen for the 1947 Convention; health and welfare plans referred to the Convention) Apr. 1947, p. 1
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: Harry G. Lewis interment; his own convalescence; McCabe Construction Company, firebrick, signs agreement with Local 8; Hennig's death) Apr. 1947, p. 5
- Report of the Secretary-Treasurer (Hennig funeral, Local 2; Richmond, Charleston, Miami, Atlanta, Boston) Apr. 1947, p. 12
- New members initiated; reinstated, suspended and lapsed members; withdrawal and traveling cards Apr. 1947, p. 14
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) Apr. 1947, p. 28
- The Convention Call (Seventeenth Convention, Palmer House, Chicago, September 15, 1947) July 1947, p. 2
- Report of the General President (Mullaney: funeral of John R. Alpine, Veto Day in New York, Birch-Johnson-Lytle and Alaska recruiting, Local 27 strike, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Kansas City plant, Taft-Hartley Law) July 1947, p. 1
- Charters issued (Locals 98 Halifax, 101 Billings, 102 Freeport, Texas, Dow Chemical Co. maintenance only); new members; reinstated, suspended and lapsed members July 1947, p. 13
- Official Directory (International officers, state conferences, affiliated cities) July 1947, p. 24
- Our President: Joseph A. Mullaney, starting his 36th year as General President Oct. 1947, p. 1
- President's Report, by Joseph A. Mullaney Oct. 1947, p. 2
- Convention Proceedings: Seventeenth Convention, Palmer House, Chicago, September 15-19, 1947 (opening sessions, credentials, greetings) Oct. 1947, p. 4
- General President's report to the convention Oct. 1947, p. 7
- Secretary-Treasurer's report to the convention Oct. 1947, p. 8
- Convention resolutions Nos. 1-3 (Master Insulators Agreement, traveling cards) Oct. 1947, p. 10
- General Executive Board elected at the Chicago convention (portraits and sketches) Oct. 1947, p. 11
- Resolutions Nos. 5-8 (Secretary-Treasurer's salary, traveling cards, union pension plan proposed by Local 39, Omaha) Oct. 1947, p. 13
- Committee on President's Report and supplemental financial report Oct. 1947, p. 15
- Committee on Resolutions, and closing sessions of the convention Oct. 1947, p. 18
- General Executive Board minutes (pre- and post-convention sessions) Oct. 1947, p. 19
- Report of the Secretary-Treasurer, C. W. Sickles Oct. 1947, p. 22
- Official Directory (international officers and local unions) Oct. 1947, p. 29
In the Library
Pages on this site about the products and companies these issues name:
- Asbestos Rogue’s Gallery Johns-Manville: Texas City (account by L. M. Robertson, Local 22, of the April 16, 1947, explosions; Johns-Manville contract at the Carbide plant; Monsanto plant) (July 1947, p. 6)
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