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NEW EVIDENCE

EXHIBIT D

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

This is new evidence. As I said earlier, when I filed my claim in 2002, I gave only basic
information about employment. I did not realize the significance of this. I
thought that information needed from me about his employment would mostly be only
the period of his employment. I thought Mathieson Chemical Company would have
records of job descriptions and duties as well as dates of changes in job classifications
and other personnel information regarding their employees. If Mathieson Chemical
Company records of _ employment exist, my assumption would be that they
would be stored in the same place as records of employees of Blockson Chemical
Company. These Blockson Chemical Company records are stored at the Olin
Corporation in Norwalk, CT. according to EEOICPA Bulletin No. 02-02, Issue Date:

March 29, 2002. I was surprised when I was told that employment at
Blockson Chemical Company in Joliet, Illinois had been verified by DOE. DOE also had
verified that employment begar 1949 and ended

1979. These are two discrepancies which were given by DOE. He had never worked in
Illinois or even visited in Illinois. Please see Exhibit F for more on that.

employment at Mathieson Chemical Company in Pasadena, Texas began

1949 andendedin _ 1978. Please see Exhibit H for more on this. I do not believe
this one year difference (1978 vs 1979) would have any effect on my claim, but I mention
it to point out another discrepancy in information that has been used in my claim.

I did not know, and still do not know specific dates that performed specific
duties and what some of those duties were, but I have talked with others and have tried to
remember as much as possible. No employment records showing these dates are
available to me. In the absence of exact dates of his tenure in each department, I am
giving approximations. As far as I know, persons who could have provided more
accurate information about these dates are deceased. As I have said earlier, I am 78
years old. How many can give exact dates of job classification changes and
detailed information about employment duties and supervisors
approximately sixty years ago? I do know that for many years, as he got older, he was a
very sick man. He suffered from four of the 22 diseases that are specified under the
EEOICPA. Evidence that he had two of these diseases has been authenticated, but little
information was documented on the other two. Please see Exhibit E for more on that.

Atthetime | was hired, some new employees began their employment in the

I have been told that he worked in the in 1949 and 1950. His
duties there were to be available for assignment to any part of the plant to assist whenever
any type of needed to be done.


This was the group who did any type of that needed to be done at any
location. It could have been

. or other (usually strenuous) type of labor required to maintain
a Chemical Plant. 1 did not put this on the original claim application because I had not
yet met him at that time and I did not consider this to be a job “Title”. I got this
information from other people who knew | at that time.

In the latter part of 1950 he became a When I met him in 1987
he was ¢ After approximately 2 or 3 years he became a
An employee could progress to < after he had

sufficient training, after a job position became vacant, and after the

bid on the job, and was considered along with other bidders and
seniority. The job then was awarded to the employee who had sufficient training and
experience to fill it based on these factors. The _ - _. was in training
and was there to assist. The “had 1 more responsibility for how the job
was performed. I have been told that the job duties in that department were

and : when necessary. This
could mean _. . I know of no special or protective clothing that
he had at work. Duties included
I have been told that he was 7 until about the late 1950s or early 1960s when
he became His duties as were to
This included
and where required in any part of the plant. He

could have been assigned to work on or related work to

This could have meant which was in any
condition, to work on This type
of could mean an assignment in any part of the plant, at any time.
Hewasa _ from approximately 1972 until his employment ended in 1978. This
job was in the Department as . His duties as a

“included
He was responsible for
These duties could have required him to make frequent trips to any part of the plant.

I was asked who his supervisors were and the dates of their supervision. My memory of
names connected with specific dates over fifty years ago does not serve me well. 1

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I was asked who his supervisors were and the dates of their supervision. My memory of
names connected with specific dates over fifty years ago does not serve me well. I
remember many names. I know the names of some of his supervisors, but I cannot be
specific as to whether some of the following named persons were supervisors or other
employees because, as I said earlier, these men worked well together and were friends as
well as fellow employees. Some of the names I remember as supervisors and/or possibly
supervisors ari

. a These gentlemen have all
died, most of them from cancer.

did shift work and worked a lot of overtime. He worked a rotating shift. He
would work a few days from 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., from 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and
from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with time off between shift changes. He worked a lot of
overtime. It was not unusual for him to call and say he would be working an extra eight
hour shift after his regular shift was over. As J remember, overtime was always in
periods of eight hours. The Mathieson plant operated on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per
week , schedule. During his employment at Mathieson he had a few short periods of time
when he worked straight days. I would guess that approximately 90% of his schedule
was on shift work.

became i 1952 or early 1953. Mathieson Chemical

Company was organized for the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
at about that time. The Mathieson Group was put into

later became and kept
that position for a few years. He was also

for the . oe In addition to this, he helped to

organize - and wasan ~ _ in that for a few years. He
was an outgoing person (a “people person”). He loved to meet people and talk to them.
Asa . he would be expected to go to any part of the plant where
anyone had a | or needed help of any kind. He also met with employees in ail
areas of the plant in his capacity as a of the above- mentioned groups
or of any special committee (Christmas toys, Company picnics, etc.) to which he was
assigned or asked to help. vas involved in a lot of plant activities.