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Press cuttings collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues.

Press cuttings on asbestos collected by Dalton.

Dalton was Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) from 1995 to 1998. This subseries comprises TGWU papers and correspondence from this period as well as some earlier and later material.

Correspondence and papers relating to trade unions. Some of the series originates from Dalton's role, between 1995 and 1998, as Health and Safety Co-ordinator at the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) but there is also some earlier and later material relating to the TGWU as well as some material relating to other trade unions. Includes correspondence, reports, press releases, newsletters and instructional/informational publications.

Correspondence and papers relating to conferences and meetings on asbestos (mainly) and other environmental and occupational health topics. Dalton attended many of these events.

• Reports and newsletters of organisations campaigning against Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd, a worldwide mining company with interests in metals, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, construction and the exploitation of oil, gas and uranium.
• Report into operation of Rio Tinto plc’s Capper Pass smelting plant, Hull, written by David Russell, Senior Regional Solicitor to the Transport and General Workers Union.
• Copy of chapter on Rio Tinto Zinc's Bristol smelting plant from ' River of Tears: the Rise of Rio Tinto Zinc Mining Company' by Richard West, 1972.

Published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Annotated [by Dalton].

Correspondence and papers relating to Dalton's involvement in the production of television and radio programmes on asbestos, together with a series of video recordings and transcripts of documentaries and other programmes collected by Dalton on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health and safety topics.

Includes:

• papers re strike over asbestos by building workers at Barbican Arts Centre in London, 1976-1977
• letter plus papers to Franklin from John Todd, member of branch committee of Glasgow Insulation Workers branch of TGWU. Todd was a lagger and asbestosis sufferer.