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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1964
G. A. Wall to J. G. Moore and Others on Dryer Standards at Manville (1964)
…Grote and R. Wyllie on a union grievance over the production standards for pulling dryer cars and unloading pipe covering at the Manville plant. Wall listed the changes since the standards were set in 1946 and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 14, 1978
H. B. Moreno to Dr. Paul Kotin on a Smoking Ban at J-M's Belgian Asbestos-Cement Plants (1978)
…M had discussed a "No Smoking" ban at its asbestos-cement plants at Mol and Ghent; managers favored it but said the best way to a complete ban was to enlist the unions. Up to then…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 5, 1974
J. A. McKinney to W. L. VanDerbeek on Informing Foreign Customers About Asbestos (1974)
…Health." McKinney reports that the booklet "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos," sent to 21 J-M plants the previous November, had drawn no adverse union or employee reaction, and recommends sending it to customers…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 6, 1975
J. G. Cole's Memos to R. E. Sampson Transcribing CBC Reports on the Advocate Mine (1975)
…the Advocate mines. The program included interviews with employees, government officials, union officials, and a doctor from the local medical school. Interviewees discussed the extremely dusty conditions at the mines and surrounding area, J-M non…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 3, 1949
J-M Production Engineering Report on Equipment for Thermobestos Pipe Covering and Thermoflex Felts (1949)
…document as follows: J-M's Sales Department contends that, because of J-M's inability to furnish insulation comparable and competitive with Union Asbestos ("Unibestos"), J-M lost applied insulation contracts in 1948 in excess…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1936
J. P. Kottcamp to Vandiver Brown on an Illinois Manufacturers' Meeting About the New Disease Law (1936)
…Brown, J-M's attorney. At Brown's request Kottcamp had attended a luncheon of Illinois industry at Chicago's Union League Club on the new Occupational Diseases Act and the Health, Comfort and Safety Act…
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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 · June 17, 1974
L. J. Greco to G. L. Swallow on the Nashua Industrial Hygiene Survey (1974)
…where they were required. "During the survey we had three personnel who would not wear a sampler," all on the sanding line; two were union stewards, and "This incident has occured for the last three years."
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 10, 1950
M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)
…though he "will change his mind if pushed on this score." The union president's remark suggests that being called in for special films was understood among the men as a sign that something had been…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1944
Minutes of the Organization Meeting of the Asbestos Textile Institute (1944)
…makers attended, including Johns-Manville, Raybestos-Manhattan, Keasbey & Mattison, Union Asbestos & Rubber, and Thomas Gatke's Asbestos Textile Company. The members adopted a constitution and by-laws, elected a board of governors and officers (C. H…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 13, 1960
National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)
…17 insulation makers attended, among them five men from Johns-Manville Sales Corporation (including J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 18, 1982
Robert W. Neirynck to Robert Batson on Hugh Jackson's Testimony About the Celite Warning Label (1982)
…man named William against J-M. Plaintiffs in the Bloomington cases claimed lung fibrosis from diatomaceous earth that J-M sold to the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (Unarco) without warnings. Neirynck had read Hugh Jackson…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969
Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)
…against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 28, 1953
Transcript of the Massachusetts Medical Society Symposium on Occupational Diseases of the Lungs (1953)
…to educate J-M's doctors and lawyers after "poor experience" in Boston compensation courts (Smith to Eby). The transcript records the insulators' union raising the hazard of their trade, and leading doctors raising lung cancer…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 27, 1948
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Dust Report (1948)
…Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum. He sends "Part I" of the Saranac Laboratory report "Asbestos Pneumoconiosis" with his own memorandum, asking that it be treated "with the utmost confidence…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1949
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Enclosing the Revised Report, Asbestos Pneumoconiosis (1949)
…Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum), a four-page memorandum by Brown on the laboratory's September 30, 1948, draft, and the revised report of January…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 14, 1980
W. B. Reitze to M. A. Tappin on Not Violating OSHA's Records Access Rule (1980)
…executive of the company, not "instruct a plant to violate a federal regulation." Reitze would not endorse such an action. Related documents M. A. Tappin to W. B. Reitze on Refusing Unions Retirees' Medical Records (1980)
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 12, 1971
C. L. Sheckler to J. D. Anderson and L. H. Hemerda on Reporting Cancer Cases at Manville (1971)
…cancer, including mesothelioma," with everything except the X-ray films. Reports were to be made as soon as the plant learned of a possible case, whether from outside doctors, disability retirement requests, the union or supervisors.
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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 · October 1, 1952
C. J. O'Neill to All Salesmen on Answering Customers About Diatomaceous Earth Hazards (1952)
What it shows The bulletin ends with the same advice J-M gave Union Oil in July: "we know enough to warrant our advising customers, a) to minimize so far as possible the dust created by…