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SILICOSIS CASES

Take the case of the late Nor-
man Davidson, who worked un-

derground for 47 years, all” in
B.C., then had to leave his job
at Britannia Mines in 1950 when
told by a doctor that he must
cease work completely if he hop-
ed to continue living.

Davidson applied for a pension,
was examined by a WCB doctor,
was told there was no disabling
silicosis. He applied again in
1952 and was again rejected. He
then applied for Unemployment
Insurance at New Westminster
but was denied benefits on the
grounds that he was disabled and
unable to work.

“This man died, while living
alone due to the fact that his
wife was working in Prince
George, looking after their
grandchildren while their
daughter taught school,” says a
Mine-Mill record of the case.
“After death the RCMP advis-
ed the son to burn the two
mattresses the father had been
sleeping on, as they were com-
pletely soaked with blood and

Parley cheers
Youth Singers

Vancouver Youth Singers of
the National Federation of Labor
Youth, who recently toured Van-
couver Island on behalf of the
youth paper Champion, took time
out from their touring Monday
night this week to present a num-
ber of songs to a smorgasboard
supper at the opening of United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union annual convention here.

: The «singers, under the direc-
tion of Searle Friedman, were
_ enthusiastically received by the
delegates and their friends and
were called back for numerous
encores.
_The § fishermen particularly
liked an adapted version of the
hit-parade song Sixteen Ton,
written especially for the occasion
by two former fishermen, Al
Cordoni and Don Savien.
. “You catch sixteen ton and what
do you get?
Not enough money to keep out
of debt. #
St. Peter don’t call me cause I
can’t go,
The season’s almost over and I’m
still in the hole.”

The Vancouver Youth Singers
and a number of other young
talented dancers and singers will
wind up their Champion concert
tour this coming Sunday, March
-25, at 8 p.m. in Haney at the
Agriculture Hall.

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could not possibly be used
again.”

An autopsy was performed, and
the autopsy report said “nine
sections of the lungs from vari-
ous areas reveal the typical his-
tologic features of silicosis,” with,
later in the report, “inflamma-
tory fibrosis.”

The union, on the basis of the
autopsy report, again took up the
case of this man’s pension and
compensation for his widow. The
claim was rejected once more.
Then a méeting was arranged be-
tween the union, WCB officials,
the two silicosis referees on the
board, and doctdérs who had treat-
ed Davidson. But again the

WCB ruled that Davidson’s case
was not due to silicosis.

Another shocking case is that
of Pete Loberg, Claim 5303840,
who worked 49 years under-
ground, was examined in Octo-
ber, 1955, and found to have
silicosis. ;

Loberg died January 5 this year
before the WCB had reached a
decision*on the case, despite the
clear evidence it had in its hands.
A post mortem showed direct
cause of death as cancer of the
bowel, but also proved that Lo-
berg had silicosis.

Yet on the grounds that Lo-
berg died of cancer, his blind
widow is denied any compensa-
tion.

There are scores of other cases
which Mine-Mill officials have
been pressing for years.

“Tt’s.a long, uphill fight,” union
secretary Les Walker told me,
pulling out a sheaf of documents
from a filing cabinet. “Take a
look at some of these rejected
claims.”

There were many tragic per-
sonal stories contained in the
reanfs' of correspondence I ex-
amined. Some of them Ill tell
about in future articles.

One document is worth men-
tioning here. It gave figures on
the number of pensions granted
to sjlicosis victims in recent
years: 26 in 1950; 22 in ‘1951; 36
in 1952; 34 in 1953; 40 in 1954.

Considering the number of
claims made by silicosis victims,
the numbers of pensions granted
is ridiculously small.

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lution urging council to press
for the banning of all tests of
nuclear weapons, when the issue
came up in finance committee
Tuesday this week.

“What’s it got to do with us?”
muttered one alderman.’

“Vancouver is a Pacific Coast
city, and this issue is especially
important to us at this time be-
cause the United States has an-
nounced a new series of atomic
tests in the Pacific next month,”
said LPP spokesman Charles Car-
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representation to the federal gov-
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by all countries.”

On motion of Alderman T. F.
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ceived.”

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Aldermen showed little enthu-

Members of “Vancouver City ,
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a Labor-Progressive party reso-'!

siasm for a proposal from B.C.
Auto Workers that Vancouver
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The issue would have died had
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over with Stan Smith, who help-
ed run the British Empire Games
here in 1954 and attended the
Olympics in Helsinki in 1952.

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Sens wees

Ald Orr goofed during debate
on a Vancouver Labor Council
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ails from Japan, which could
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Other members reminded him

City council deaf to LPP plea —
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