Correspondence and papers on asbestos contamination in Armley, Leeds. The contamination was caused by fall-out from J.W. Roberts Ltd asbestos processing factory in Armley.
Meridian and BBC news reports about Gary Coomber, sheep farmer, a victim of exposure to organophosphates in sheep dip. Features interview with Dalton.
Industrial Deaths Support and Advocacy leaflet.
Letter to Dalton from Eva Delgado, Alianza Frente al Asbesto, on asbestos in Peru. Encloses Alianza Frente Al Asbesto bulletins, 1994, and photograph of interior of asbestos fibre factory in Peru.
Internal memorandum from Dalton, Transport & General Workers Union, on a women’s health and safety at work reading list. Encloses ‘Occupational safety and health concerns of Canadian women’ by Karen Messing.
Papers on removal of social security benefits from asbestos-related disease sufferers awarded compensation. Includes:
- report by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, 1994
- fourth report of House of Commons Social Security Committee on compensation recovery, 1995
Includes copy of article.
The article was written in response to an article in the Observer by John Collee. Cutting of article included.