Item 1 - Glasgow laggers

1 folder
Paper

From a file inscribed "The Glasgow laggers (John Todd et al.)", found inside a poly box file labelled "The Laurie Flynn Collection", both in Geoffrey Tweedale's hand

In reverse chronological order:

• copy of email, informing Geoffrey Tweedale of John Todd's death in 2004. In the 1970s, Todd had been a prominent representative of the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union
• papers and correspondence 1974-1978. Includes copies of correspondence between Todd and the Health & Safety Executive, as well as of the certificate for the asbestosis-related death of Angus Cairns, insulating engineer, November 1975
• copy of Flynn's ‘Asbestos murders’ (1974), a series of articles in The Socialist Worker indicting the Scottish lagging industry
• copy of the pamphlet version of 'Asbestos murders’, published as ‘Asbestos: the dust that kills in the name of profit’ (London, 1974)
• Flynn's background research for 'Asbestos murders': lists of "certified dead from asbestosis" and "certified receiving pension"; transcripts of Flynn's conversations with Glasgow laggers and their union representatives; some correspondence, typescript notes of a meeting with laggers Arthur Rhodie, Jim Gegathy and John Todd, 14 November 1973
• papers including press coverage 1967-1974

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• English