1. Nat-Semi Health Claims Backed
An American industrial safety campaigner today alleged that Inverclyde Nat-Semi staff have had their health abused like "canaries down a coal mine." "The people in this area have the right to know what sort of commercial pollution has been put out by this plant over the years." (From an article in Greenock Telegraph, July 25, 1998. Read the entire article.)

2. High-tech Cancers--a Dateline transcript.
" Breast cancer, testicular cancer, brain tumors, and a variety of pre-cancerous conditions, all represented here. Many of the victims young, still in their 20's. Most with no family history of the kind of cancer they've developed."

"But everyone else here believes that making microchips at IBM harmed them or their loved ones--that their work caused cancer and birth defects. Like many of the people here, Nicole worked in what's known as a clean room, where computer microchips are made." Excerpted transcript from April 18, 1997 Dateline, which featured interviews with IBM workers who suffer from cancer.

3. Bay Area Focus report. Cancer--is it the secret of Silicon Valley?
KGO (San Francisco-based ABC affiliate) transcript of report on February 24, 1998. "Tonight, you'll meet some hardworking people--the Bay Area's best and brightest--who tell us their Silicon Valley jobs may be killing them--literally."

4. USA TODAY Series
A three-part series on the semiconductor industry by Julie Schmidt was printed in USA TODAY Jan.13-16 1998.

5. Deaths Blamed on IBM: Its workers allegedly were exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. (Monday, February 23, 1998, published by San Jose Mercury News)

6. Clean Computer Chips Taking Toll? Chemicals in dust-free rooms protect product, not necessarily people. The chemical industry's, secrets. One in an occasional series. Houston Chronicle, Sept. 28, 1998, by Jim Morris.

7. Chemicals Poison Workers "For years health professionals have been concerned that exposing high tech production workers to scores of toxic chemicals will result in an epidemic of human disease and tragedy. And, for years, high tech industry spokespersons have claimed that the clean rooms are safe, that everything is 'well within OSHA limits', and that if there were a problem, there would be a body count. Saying they saw no body count, they have continued to say none exists. Meanwhile, signs of a possible epidemic are starting to emerge and be documented." (From "Chemicals Poison Workers by Leslie Byster, Spring 1997, SVTC Action. Read the entire article.

8. Working Women and Toxics
"Many women are in new industries, such as the semiconductor industry, and there are no studies" yet available on how they are faring. From 9/18/98 Washington Post

9. Ailing Chip Workers Cite Chemicals, Not Chance, by William Glaberson with Julia Campbell, New York Times, March 28, 1996

10. Bay Area Worst Pollution San Francisco Examiner article on December 1, 1996 by Jane Kay.

11.Chemicals not adequately tested. Newsletter from Environmental Research Foundation

12. IBMAD about CFC's Rally at IBM in San Jose on Earth Day 1989.

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