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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 1951 (Volume 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, Volume 13
- Date
- 1951
- Rights
- Published in 1951 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
20 pp. · PDF, 1.7 MB
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April
28 pp. · PDF, 2.8 MB
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July
24 pp. · PDF, 2.3 MB
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October
28 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
Editorials & Essays
- Editorial: 1951 March of Dimes Jan. 1951, p. 2
Employers, Contractors & Agreements
- Local Wage Rates Jan. 1951, p. 8
- Local Wage Rates Apr. 1951, p. 10
- Local Wage Rates July 1951, p. 2
- Local Wage Rates Oct. 1951, p. 2
- Favorable Decision Issued: Labor Department Decision Endorses Improver Membership (letter from General Secretary-Treasurer Sickles and reply from Department of Labor) Oct. 1951, p. 7
Labor Movement & Legislation
- Reader's Digest Praises Gompers Jan. 1951, p. 9
- Labor Wants In, by Joseph D. Keenan Apr. 1951, p. 4
- United Labor's Declaration Apr. 1951, p. 8
- AFL Seven Point Program Against Communism Apr. 1951, p. 11
- Labor Wants In (continued from page 4) Apr. 1951, p. 12
- League Vows '52 Political Drive July 1951, p. 3
- The Big Lobby Money July 1951, p. 10
- Wage Stabilization Board Clarification: Regulations Numbers 6 and 8 Clarified July 1951, p. 11
- No Friend of High Prices Can Be Friend of Labor, Leaders Assert July 1951, p. 21
- National Labor Relations Board letter on compliance filing Oct. 1951, p. 8
Local Unions & Correspondence
- Minutes of conference meetings: Middle Atlantic, New England, New York State and others Jan. 1951, p. 10
- Correspondence: West Columbia, Texas, and others Apr. 1951, p. 9
- Minutes of conference meetings: Midwest, Middle Atlantic, New England, New York State, Southeast, Southwest, Western States Apr. 1951, p. 13
- Correspondence: Houston Local 22 reports a member killed in action in Korea; and others July 1951, p. 8
- Photograph: Central States Conference delegates July 1951, p. 9
- Minutes of conference meetings: Central States, Middle Atlantic, New England, New York State and others July 1951, p. 12
- Correspondence: Little Rock Local 10 reports a member killed in action in Korea; and others Oct. 1951, p. 6
- Minutes of conference meetings: Middle Atlantic, Midwest, Southwest, Western States and others Oct. 1951, p. 11
Members
Special Features
- Some Facts About Your Cover Picture: the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda (contents page) Jan. 1951, p. 2
- American Heart Association: exhibit viewed by Mullaney and Sickles at the AFL convention (National Labor Committee) Jan. 1951, p. 3
- March of Dimes photograph: polio ward, Burge Hospital, Springfield, Mo. Jan. 1951, p. 5
- American Heart Association: thanks to the International (letter from Edward Robbins, National Labor Representative) Jan. 1951, p. 7
- Some Facts About Your Cover Picture: U.S. Naval Gun Factory, Washington (contents page) Apr. 1951, p. 2
- Conquer Cancer (American Cancer Society message) Apr. 1951, p. 25
- Some Facts About Your Cover Picture: the U.S. Capitol (contents page) July 1951, p. 2
- Photograph page: Western States Conference delegates (rotated) July 1951, p. 4
- Back-page tribute: Sergeant Charles Turner, Medal of Honor, Korea July 1951, p. 22
- Contents and Some Facts About Your Cover Picture: the Lincoln Memorial Oct. 1951, p. 2
- Photograph: annual party of Local 53, New Orleans Oct. 1951, p. 3
- Photographs: Local 105, Texas City, banquet; Local 13, Jacksonville, dinner Oct. 1951, p. 5
- Photographs: Western States Conference delegates, San Francisco; Local 18 and Master Insulators party, Indianapolis; luncheon tendered Southwest States conference delegates by Local 106, El Paso Oct. 1951, p. 9
- Photograph: President Mullaney with Martin P. Durkin and George Meany at the AFL convention, San Francisco; Important Notice (change of address) Oct. 1951, p. 23
- Back-cover notice: U.S. Savings Bonds (Major General William F. Dean) Oct. 1951, p. 26
The Trade & Its Work
Union Business
- President's Report, by Joseph A. Mullaney Jan. 1951, p. 1
- Business Report: new members, withdrawal cards, members lapsed Jan. 1951, p. 4
- Official Directory (international officers and affiliated local unions) Jan. 1951, p. 12
- President's Report, by Joseph A. Mullaney (with Decisions) Apr. 1951, p. 1
- General Executive Board, Annual Session (March 12-15, 1951) Apr. 1951, p. 2
- Business Report: new members, withdrawal cards, members suspended and lapsed Apr. 1951, p. 5
- Official Directory (international officers and affiliated local unions) Apr. 1951, p. 20
- President's Report, by Joseph A. Mullaney July 1951, p. 1
- Business Report: new members, members lapsed and reaffiliated July 1951, p. 5
- Official Directory (international officers and affiliated local unions) July 1951, p. 16
- President's Report, by Joseph A. Mullaney Oct. 1951, p. 1
- Business Reports: charter petitions denied, new members, members suspended Oct. 1951, p. 4
- Official Directory (international officers and affiliated local unions) Oct. 1951, p. 18
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