21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 2, 1947 · Program for October 3, 1947, and participant list · page 3
Letters on the Sixth Saranac Symposium, with Its Compensation Program and Participant List (1947)
In the document: …N. J. Ber por ation, North < N Cux. Mir. J. L., Duro Tos n Corporations New York, N. Y. Cranch, Dr. A. G, Union Carbide & Carbo r, Rochester, N. Y. AR Cuedi, Mrs. M. R…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 15, 1957
Union Complaints and J-M Correspondence on Dust in the Manville Textile "A" Building (1957)
…in "A" Building. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Edward Macko (President of a local Manville labor union) writes to M.F…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 10, 1954
Dr. Herbert K. Abrams of the International Chemical Workers Union and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Conditions at J-M Plants (1954)
…were reported as given and not yet checked, and that the Lompoc union delegate had praised the plant's progress in "health safeguards." Nineteen days after his first letter, Smith told the Waukegan plant to start…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953
H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)
…follows: Housekeeping procedures manual has been prepared by the Lompoc plant. Jackson okays providing the Union and USPHS with copies of it on 9/14/53. Jackson suggests that notations in the manual indicating that various…
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Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969
H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)
…that J-M would measure asbestos dust by counting fibers on a membrane filter in the worker's breathing zone. Jackson's addition was that unions and employees should be told about the new method too.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 16, 1965
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to N. W. Hendry, "Asbestos versus Cancer" (1965)
…s main problem with the report is that the men examined, who were called "asbestos workers," were men who belonged to the asbestos workers union, a group of men who are exposed to asbestos fiber along…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 3, 1964
Kenneth W. Smith to E. W. Redd of Leed Insulator Corporation on Asbestosis (1964)
…this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith letter to E.W. Redd (Leed Insulator Corporation) dated 12/3/64, responding to Redd's inquiry concerning asbestosis and insulation workers. Referring to the Selikoff report, Dr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 10, 1966 · page 7
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's "Health Projects" Talk at the Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference (1966)
In the document: PHP=4 Plant Mansgers' Relationship with local & International Union Leaderahdp 3. L. Schoolcraft PHr-8 Strike After iffects on Community Relations PMr-11 N. Jow Foresen K. Saith Employee Relations & Productiom P, De Burpnum PMr-13 Mr…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 29, 1954
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to Boyd Mulder on Telling Waukegan Employees Their Examination Results (1954)
…recommends that Waukegan develop a disclosure procedure similar to Lompoc's, which he says has been successful for J-M, the union and the employees. Dr. Smith is also going to send Mulder some new forms…
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Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)
What it shows Smith objects that "The term 'asbestos worker' has been used too freely," since it often meant a member of the Asbestos Workers Union, insulators who also applied mineral wool, glass fiber and magnesia…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1958
Dr. Kenneth Smith to J. M. Gadway on Pulmonary Function Studies at Lompoc (1958)
…results of lung tests on Lompoc workers before they were reported, and raised the timing of the tests against the plant's coming union contract talks. Four months later Smith suggested what Lompoc employees should be…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1966
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to O. A. Battista of Food Machinery Corporation on Asbestos Health Hazards (1966)
…to Hendry, 1965), now sent to an outside company: the men were "asbestos workers" only by union membership, and Smith did not believe there was "a serious health hazard associated with the use of asbestos, particularly…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 13, 1969
H. M. Jackson, Manville Textile Plant Survey by the New Fiber-Count Method (1969)
…A "premium" for respirator work, he wrote, would have to be negotiated with the union, and "without such an approach, numerous difficulties are anticipated." At the time J-M's limit for asbestos fiber was 12…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 17, 1961 · page 9
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Industrial Health Talk at the J-M Management Information Session (1961)
In the document: …thy working conditions in our plant and each paragraph was headed by the same stamp "Death By Dust®. It was read throughout California, in every state of the Union, and in many forgign .countries. Shortly afterwards…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 4, 1960 · page 7
Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Managers Meeting Minutes on the Industrial Health Program (1960)
In the document: …about the January 1952 issue of Search Magazine, the monthly journal of the California Tuberculosis Association. This magazine was circulated throughout California - throughout every state in the Union, Canada, and many parts of the foreign world…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 19, 1948
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to George K. Foster Reviewing the Saranac Asbestosis Report (1948)
…Sabourin insisted on this point and we have adhered to this decision implicitly. Even the head of the union here thinks that Dr. Vidal selected the men for examination and that all I did was to…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963 · page 11
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)
In the document: …Workmen's Compensation cases wnich require your attention. In recent years, the local union groups have taken a tremendous interest in plant injuries and Worimen's Compensation; therefore, an injury could involve labor relations problems related…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 28, 1955 · page 12
Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting on the Company Health Program (1955)
In the document: …1n :int.i~I f\'lte in~rc:'ir.c:,~ · oct.ivity in t..hc:::c nrco.s bot.h wit.hin... t.ho plnnt. union::: a.nu 1n t.ho :::t:>.t.o · lcGi:alAturcs. ·'' [ .; ..…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 1965 · Meeting contents page and Smith's talk, February 7-12, 1965 · page 3
Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestos and Cancer," Talk to J-M's Industrial Relations Managers (1965)
In the document: …. He reported to the Anmmal Heeting of The Asbestos Workers Union in Atlmtic City on the terrible hazards of the asbestcs worker. Apparently he exanined over 1500 people and reported an extromsly high incidence of cancer…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 1, 1954 · page 3
Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on Autopsy and Heart Studies (1954)
In the document: …discu:i:iion wa:1 pr:1.~arily a review or the activiUc:1 ct tho lost t\.ro years, cli:u:uuion ol projects currently undar con~ideration ar.:l devcloi=ent of pl.ans !or the …