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Brown lung protest calls moral issue not politics
Washington union official Murray Finley of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers AFL-CIO called a two day Labor Department critique of the 1980 cotton dust standard a moral crusade. He said about 1000 union members would demonstrate in Washington and 36 other cities to support protections for textile workers against byssinosis.
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Washington
Labor Department
Murray Finley
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
Afl-Cio
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Finley
Labor
Ray Donovan
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Donovan
Thorne G. Auchter
OSHA
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Josephine Newsome
Aiken County
BSA
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