ereased manufacture of cent from Quebec alone. - Premier. Levesque was vice- ent of the SNA: ‘gabestos products in the | As a pure ‘producer con- IN CREASED CON TR OL ALSO SEEN aiming a bit high when he The tailings from the - vince is the goal behind suming mone . af its own —_— TE Se projected that the asbestos mines contain lusbec's -takeover of As- "Cut, Asbestos Corp.leads Levesque sald that the canassure a supply of same English name for this cape into the air, vranufacturing of asbestos about 20. to ot magnesium, no one Touenuc (cP) — In. exporting some to. East Announcing "Quebec" 2 raw asbestos and mix their . ~~“g'L00 president of the Societe Seely so nagete AT QUEBEC _ Upping production the motive for takeover ‘The Herald, Tuesday, June 24, 1970, Poge & Perlatein admits ‘that of Sherbrooke, He now is Provincia io tas Corp. Ltd. but the 8 ve e companies mining in government was not only short fibres to Quebec Aauiely cly-cwned national as- it has entered a joint products would create as ee id also give te ig daking over Asbestos Corp., processors and the balance toa corporation, venture with Canadian many as 9,000 new jobs. His developed an economical eéntrol of the export eer rf The hers include Like but alio wanted to raise of demand can be furnished The SMA has’ already tex tries Inc. of immediate goal is closer to way to extract the metal.” for. the fibre. MRS ae harbor bare Carey- “secondary processing of the by the other producers. atarted up Lupel-Amiante,a Montreal to produce re- 450 in an industry that is © Lalancetie has developed Hi Asbestos C: . 18 Quebe's Canadian Mines Ltd., which fibre in Qu to2dpercent World demand for. Capde-laMadejeine placement brake linings. highly capital intensive. a chemical extraction ; epeond producer after Ilke “JohusManville - ara from three-per cent. mediumlength fibres ig operation making ashestos These projects have tripled When the asbestos policy process and the SNA is ‘JohnsManville ‘Corp,, tur- American owned, and Bell The potential for new growing by three tofour per backing for lincleum, The the amount of asbestos was unveiled, Jean-Marc confident it will work. Hf it ‘ping.“out “38 per ‘cent’ of Asbestos Mines Ltd., held by processing ventures lies in centa year in real terms and plantis engineered so that no processed in Quebec to nine Lalancette was a chemistry does, the PQ hopes that a Quebec's total - asbestos British interests, procs made with ee new markota are opening up. asbestos fibres es- per cent. professor at the University estimate will climb to 20,000 shipments. But unlike Johns: : ure Of as ; Asheatos . is con. and backing for Ainoleum —tooks bright, but it rema . . secs Se ual est courage ecto oats ee lid : i} Ou ‘per cent . ebec government will get - . ‘ Fear nara: Leone in naj line, of the parent Asbestos Corp's production aeieced ihe aelion, oom BY oe : lence -. ism e res Dynamics ‘ : ‘The Soviet Union produces ware for the United States in’ sabes toccument, which sont intereat ta not for ale, . ‘* about 47 per cent of ‘the’ goverment and:its alles, It does not lend itself to export. Implementation of the as- The %y t ~ P World's asbestos, consuming consumes none of the Countries using asbestos- bestes policy is being han- : | 4 host ‘of its product and Asbestos Corp..output, cement would rather import dled by Daniel Perlatein, as 4 i aon EAD. TOS "Health problems part n dd abe of asbestos dilema . THETFORD MINES, Que. (CP) “i= “He used to come home with . asbestos covering his jeans," recalls Blanche Garneau, with a gesture to . her husband Adrien, swaying back and forth in his rocking chair. “] would. wash them and they would be like cement — you couldn't wear them anymore. That's what It does to your lungs.”” Adrien Garneau, now 71, first ahowed symptoms of asbestosos, an incurable lung disease 15 years ago but continued working for Asbestos af natural courts in the United States as . Corp. Ltd, until retirement at 65, DOW here’s his minister of natural J oers suffering from asbestos- after 45 years in the moines. resources standing up and saying — -aiced diseases seek compensation ve f urn ished our His lungs are always. congested and he suffers from shortness of breath, but government doctors say Conditions in the industry have Among evidence presented in the A heonly has a 10-per-cent incapacity. changed from the old days when American courts are documents: . . ot ya “For that I get a §73 pension cheque © miners took in as many as 1,000 belonging to Dr, Kenneth Smith, lothed a nd = Uf every month.” asbestos fibres an fratted he medical officer for Johns Manville nen Cc : \ } Wy) centime' r they brea e@ ‘at Asbestos, Que., in 1949, They s ‘ . cana tine and beer you sidkis Noted. "I guesu some of those fellows that it was company policy not to tell we y assed through asbestos filters. The facking of the linoleum on your kitchen floor more than likely contains asbestes. Prospects for its increased use as insulation are bright. with the rising coat of home . heating. a _ Asbestos is a hazardous product, but medical evidence suggests that _ asbestos fibres embedded in vinyl or coated in cement are safe.’ Before Quebec decided, in the results are tabulated using death implementing the asbestea policy. . words of Premier Rene Levesque, certificates: “But there is an important nuance — Fi ST ie i ict “to join the asbestos club” Parti Researchers had no troyble the amount Inhaled. J pA tl ree? ue ebecois members were-among getting the certificates until last “A guy cleaning brakes in a’ Crt! aie most vehement critics of the year when the Quebec government garage with compressed air for Oe wants | health record of the asbestos companies. Now PQ ministers — — In particular Yves Berube, minister of natural’ resources —-play down the d fer. - “Asbestos Is a natural that we have been breathing for sald only 2.37 per cent of asbestos price of General Dynamics Corp. a8 . _ thousands of years,” Berube toldthe workers had the disease. Employees _too high. Quebec national assembly. "We who had just started and those whe “We would pay §200 4 share if it have developed resistance to it. had spent their lives in the mines wasn't for the health problem," "Exposure to asbestos ig no more were included, Perlstein sdid. harmful than any other product,” Maurice Taschereau, president of Asbestos Corp., remembers Levesque’s speech to the Economic Club in New York in January, 1877. The Quebec premier told investors the only nationatization his govern- ment planned was the takeover of one asbestos company. “Here's the premier of Quebec -~ and Quebee produces most of the fibre in the Free World — talking about this ‘poisonous industry’ and there's nothing wrong wilh as- bestos.” did get asbestosis,” Adrien Garneau worked in those conditions. He said the government only imposed the present five-fibre per ¢.c. limit after a 1975 strike. The asbestos workers made health their top priority then. An ongoing study by New York's Mount Sinai Hospital on. workers first exposed to asbestos 20 or more years ago Indicates thatone inthree — die of asbestos-related diseases. The implemented a new policy of refusing to release death certificates to anybody without the permission of the relatives. A report on asbestosis released by the Quebec government last year Not included were workers who had died of the disease, those too sick to work and retired employees - affected by asbestosis. Dr. Irving Selikoff of Mount Sinai says asbestos fibres may lie dor- mant in the lungs for as long a5 20, 30 or 40 years before there is any sign of disease. One day of heavy ex- posure to asbestos can be enough to cause illness. There are more than 1,000 sults for — damages totalling §2 billion before from asbestos producers and manu- facturers. workers they were sick until they . could no longer werk. “As long as a man is not disabled It is felt he should not be told of his condition so that he can live in peace and the company can benefit by his many years of experience," Dr, Smith wrote. “Sure, asbestos is dangerous,” says Daniel Perlstein, president of the Societe Nationale de l’Amiante, the government body responsible for eight hours a day runs a high risk,” he said, “But if he uses a damp sponge there is no risk,” The government ls offering $42 a share for Asbestos Corp. and has dismissed the $99.75-ashare asking ¢ friends for life The Canadian Red Cross Society fs on \2 va “Ep np a awa" 7 in “TERRACE-RUITIMAT daily herald | through it we purchased ; ..OUr Car first home fed our family iG ; teiwel, ‘wort 1 getisisict ATRL countries, Canadian asbestos policy in October, own cement. Nationale de l'Amiante " H pesos accounts for 50 per 1977, Premier Rene However, Asbestos Corp. © (SNA). There is no official - ot j ; : H SBESTOS TAKE OVER : . 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