77 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 4
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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 · December 15, 1975
W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)
…Thermobestos was J-M's asbestos calcium silicate pipe and block insulation; its dustiness was documented in the 1960s (Union Carbide's 1962 dust surveys). In 1977 Reitze found Thermobestos still being made and installed in…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 11, 1977 · Asbestos Information Association booklet: Asbestos and Health · page 26
W. A. Cooper to Dr. Paul Kotin on the History of J-M's Employee Education About Asbestos (1977)
In the document: …Asbestos Corp. The Flintkote Company H. K. Porter Company, Thermoid Div. GAF Corp. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc. Jim Walter Corp. Supradur Manufacturing Corp. Johns-Manville Corp. Union Carbide Corp., Mining and Metals Division ; Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company
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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 · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
What it shows Union Asbestos & Rubber was one of the companies that signed the November 1936 agreement to pay for Gardner's work at the Saranac Laboratory, under which the results belonged to the sponsors and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968
W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)
What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 14, 1971
C. L. Hite to B. Mulder on Waukegan's Red Slip Cases and the Union (1971)
What it shows Hite reports that union official Ben Foust expected a proposal that any worker moved to a lower-paying job because of a lung problem caused by asbestos or silica at work should keep…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Lewis Silverman of Union Asbestos & Rubber on the Air Hygiene Foundation (1936)
…Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In a letter to L.J. Silverman (Union Asbestos and Rubber Company) dated 12/17/36, V…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to Union Oil Company of California on Handling Hyflo Super-Cel (1952)
…Neill's October bulletin to salesmen. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Correspondence to Union Oil Company of California from C.J…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961
C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)
…M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 25, 1981
K. G. Gulley Memo on Workers' Compensation Occupational Disease Files in Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville (1981)
…company knew describes this document as follows: In a memorandum to Robert S. Venning, Esq. of Heller Erman, White & McAuliffe re Commercial Union v. Johns-Manville, dated 12/25/81, regarding Workers' Compensation Files, K.G…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 11, 1980
M. A. Tappin to W. B. Reitze on Refusing Unions Retirees' Medical Records (1980)
…The question came up again at Long Beach in 1982 (Falter to the International Chemical Workers Union). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1, 1977
Dr. William R. Paul's Memo on the Zelienople Plant and Abnormal X-Rays Workers Were Not Told About (1977)
…role of the radiologist" by saying the films were of poor quality. The union pressed him on why the doctor had not retaken them, and the men said the plant doctor "doesn't tell them anything…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 4, 1972
Fred L. Pundsack to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff on Estimating Past Dust Levels at the Manville Plant (1972)
What it shows The estimates were for Selikoff's study of the Manville plant, which the local union had asked him to make (Selikoff's request to J. B. Jobe, Jobe's agreement). Blind copies went…
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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 · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1964
J. B. Jobe to D. L. Hinmon on Labeling Asbestos Products to Lessen Claims (1964)
…25/64 states: "In view of the importance being given to the subject by the Asbestos Workers Union it is our belief that we should take advantage of any items which could lessen our exposure to…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 14, 1956
B. F. Stanton to S. Lower on Dust at the No. 4 Roofing Machine in the Manville Plant (1956)
…Stanton states that "[t]he several union complaints and the suggestion by certain operators that they should walk off the job 'rather than inhale that dust' are not without justification." Stanton urges correction of the problem…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1960
C. L. Sheckler and Others on a Mandatory Respirator Program at the Manville Plant (1960)
…though there is a recognized health hazard and we may be generating additional O.D. [occupational disease] cases," because of "our vulnerable position from the Union and the State standpoint" and the added wage cost. W…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 19, 1979
Dennis H. Markusson to R. B. Von Wald on Amending Waukegan's OSHA Logs (1979)
…union of the identity of individuals with occupationally related illnesses. On page 7, Markusson suggests that Waukegan amend Manville's logs entering those employees who request that his identity not be made known to the union…
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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…