Documenting the asbestos story in Sarnia

New Solutions

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-316

  Brophy, Jim ^a,b   Parent, Mark C ^c  

^a Centres de sante des travailleurs ses de I'Ontario   (Canada)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council   (Canada)

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EID: 0007731387     PISSN: 10482911     EISSN: 15413772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/4qwt-08ty-rx5j-d5lh     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. “The Holmes Foundry Strike of March 1937: ‘We’ll give their jobs to white men!'" written by Duart Snow, Carleton University, from Ontario History 1977.
2. In 1987, Murray Finkelstein, Ph.D., working for the Ministry of Labour, released a mortality health study regarding the Caposite and Holmes Insulation Plant. An appendix was included which discussed several studies of iron and steel foundry workers that consistently showed an excess risk for lung cancer. He cited the findings of eight studies as reference to substantiate his recommendation for a mortality study of Holmes Foundry workers to determine whether the increased risk observed elsewhere also has occurred in the Holmes environment. A recent interview with Dr. Finkelstein established that his recommendation was never acted upon.