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Compensation and Control: Silicosis in the Ontano Hardrock Miniog Compensation and Control: Silicosis in the Ontano Hardrock Miniog Iodustry, 1921-1975 Dieter Grant Hogaboarn A thesis submitted to the Department of History in conformity with the requirernents for the degree of Master of Arts Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada September, 1997 copyright O Dieter Grant Hogaboarn, 1997 National Library Bibliothèque nationale 1+1 of Canada du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie Services seMces bibliographiques 395 Wellington Street 395, nie Wellington Ottawa ON KIA ON4 OÈtawâON K1AON4 Canada Canada Yowale votre rdrenmc.9 Our IU Namr rd- The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive pemettant à la National Libfary of Canada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loan, distribute or sell reproduire, prêter, distribuer ou copies of this thesis in microfonn, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic formats. la foxme de rnicrofiche/nlm, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. The author retains ownership of the L'auteur conserve la propriété du copyright in this thesis. Neither the droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse. thesis nor substantial extracts fiom it Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels may be printed or othenvise de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés reproduced without the author's ou autrement reproduits sans son permission. autorisation. Dieter Hogaboam, Commnsation and Control: Silicosis in the Ontario Hardrock Minine Mustry, 1921-1975. Silicosis, a disease of the lungs, was once comrnon in the gold and uranium mining communities of northem Ontario, notably Timmins, WandLake7 and Elliot Lake. The history of silicosis in Ontario's hardrock rnining indu- serves as a case study of the evolution of worker's compensation for occupational disease. It also illustrates the attitudes of labour, management, and govemment towards the compensation and prevention of occupatiod ilhess. Over the, silicosis policies became linked to the struggie over workers' control ofthe labour process. The failure to eliminate the disease from Ontano's mines was a catalyst for the enacmient of the province's first Occupational Health and Safety Act. A bstract Occupational health and safety is an undentudied aspect of Canadian labour history. This study examines the response of labour, management, and govemment in Ontario to silicosis, a lung disase once common among hardrock miners. Silicosis was the fint chronic lung di= covered by worken' compensation in Ontario and thus provides a usefùl esample of attitudes to the compensation and control of occupational illness. From these issues a common theme of workplace control emerges. Govemments, mining corporations. engineering and public health professionds, and miners al1 sou@ to have silicosis policies reRect their specific interests. Worken' compensation \vas damaging to the bottom line, but was a çodsend to incapacitated mine workers. It also forced managers to take measures to reduce the incidence of silicosis. At the same timr. cornpetitive pressures caused mining corporations to introducr a varie5 of technoIogica1 and managrial innovations which reduced the ability of mine worken to control the work process. The desire of managers to improve productivity through pater control of the workplace forced workers to find new ways of influencing their working lives. One of the solutions was to assert their right to participate as equal partners in heaith and safety. Managers resisted this demand on the basis that it interfered with their ability to run the mines. Governent aided the position of the corporations by advocating a laissez-faire approach to the replation of working conditions in the mining indusmr. As a result, policies for the compensation and control of silicosis minimized the cost of the disease to companies by placing the burden of responsibilit). with the miners. As the strength of the labour movement increased in the latter half of the hventieth centuy, the lingering presence of silicosis !vas eventually publicized, pressurinç the provincial governrnent to shift its support behind labour. The result of this development waç Ontario's fint comprehensive occupational heal th and sa fety leg'slation. I diank my thesis ~upe~sor,Dr. Bqan Palmer, for his support and for his editing skills, which saved me fiom numerous embarrassrnents. E ako estend thanks to various memben of the Queen's Department of History who provided a stimulating environment in whch to work. These m'ends willingly listened to my ruminations on silicosis, offering useh1 suggestions and posing questions 1 had overlooked Of course. 1 remain responsible for anp erron and oversights. My deepest gratitude is reserved for my parents, who have provided limitless amounts of support and encouragement over the yean. Without them, 1 would never have travelled this far from the nest successfiilly. Table of Contents Abstract ....................................................................................................................................... .i Achowledgments ...... ... ........................................................................................................... ii List of Tables................................................................................................................................ iv List of Figures................................................................................................................................ v Chapter One: Introduction to Silicosis as an Occupational Disease....................................... 1 Chapter Two: Silicosis in Ontario to 1939 ................................................................................ 1 5 Chapter Three: Silicosis in the Home and the Community, 193 1-1 939 .................................. -71 Chapter Four Silicosis During and Afier the Second World War ............................................ 83 Chapter Five: Fighting the Cold War on the Home Front - Silicosis in the Uranium Mines of Ontario, 1 955- 1 975................................................................................................. -137 Conclusion................................................................................................................................. 167 . -. - . Appendis 1 - Ontano Silicosis Smtistics.................................................................................. 172 . B~blio-mphy............................................................................................................................ 1 77 Vi ta.. ......................................................................................................................................... 1 84 List of Tables Table 1 .Silicosis Swey Results fiom 1935 and 1926............................................................ 19 Table 2 .Total Disabiliîy Cases Discovered benceen 1925-1 927 at the McIn')~ePorcupine Mine ............................................................................................................................... 29 Table 3 - New Silicosis Cases in Ontario, 1926-193 1 ....................................... ........................ 37 Table 3 - Silicosis Incidence Rates in Ontario Mines, 1926-1 93 1 ........................................ -37 Table 5 - Statistics on Compenable Cases of Silicosis in Ontario, 1926-1958 .................... 171 Table 6 - Statistics on Cornpensable Cases of Silicosis in Ontario, 1959-1 974.................... 173 Table 7 - Deaths of Silicotic Miners in Ontario, 1926- 19?2 ................................................. 174 Table 8 - New Eariy-Stage Silicosis Cases by Period ............ ...... .......................... 1 75 Table 9 - New Eariy-Stage Silicosis Cases by Year of Fint Expsure to Mine Dust ............ 176 Table 1 O - Silicosis Cases by Year of First Esposure and Year Compznsated.................... .. 176 List of Figures Figure I .Certificate of Freedom fiom PuIrnon- Tuberculosis............................................. 33 Figure 7 - "Silicosis, the Scourge of the Metal Minen"................... .. ................................... 76 Figure 3 - A Diesel-Powered Front-End Loader.................................................................... 157 Figure 4 - HydraulicallyControkd, Mobile, Drill Carriage ................................................ 157 Chapter One: Introduction to Silicosis as an Occupational Disease "Have you seen the men, scores of them in every mining town, hobbling, haltingly on the streets, unable to walk many bloclis vithout a stop to rest, to cou& violently, and to draw in a new breath of air which seems to pas through their lungs with painfbl difficulty?"' This dramatic image was conjured up for the readership of Union News7 a journal of the radical International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. Wowever, it kvas not the vision of an apocalyptic writer. Rather, the description would have been imrnediately recognizable to the residents of northem Ontario minhg toms. The men described were the victims of silicosis, an occupational disease that weakened the lungs of countless hardrock miners around the world, including those in Ontario. Vimially forgotten today outside of mining communities as recently as 1975 silicosis was grabbing headlines for its role in the dsaths of close to 2 000 Ontario minen during the middle yean of the twentieth century2 The emergence of silicosis ranks as one of the mat industrialtragedies in Canadian history, yet it remains
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