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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.

Published works on asbestos and other environmental and occupational health issues collected by Dalton. Includes several works by Dalton.

Includes:

• account by Jackson of his exposure to asbestos and campaign work
• papers on industrial disease compensation claims supported by Jackson

Correspondence and papers on asbestos in South Africa, including compensation claims against Cape plc by South African workers. Includes:

• photographs of demonstration
• press cuttings
• Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) leaflets and newsletters

Includes letter to Dalton from John Hare, of Leigh, Day & Co, solicitors, re Dalton’s letter to the New Scientist.

Correspondence between Dalton and Barry Castleman, environmental consultant, on asbestos-related issues. Subjects include Turner & Newall (including copies of Turner & Newall correspondence, 1938-1964), Richard Doll, Irving Selikoff, World Trade Organization asbestos case.

Correspondence and papers on article by Professor Julian Peto of The Institute for Cancer Research in the Lancet in 1995 entitled ‘Continuing increase in mesothelioma mortality in Britain’.

Includes:

• press coverage
• Brunel University MSc thesis by G.B. Farrant on potential release of asbestos affecting residents of Elgin Estate, October 1986
• report of independent commission, January 1996
• report by Professor Julian Peto, January 1997
• photographs, 1997
• papers on removal of asbestos from Winterton House and Gelston Point, Tower Hamlets
• publication by Walterton and Elgin Community Homes Ltd, 1998