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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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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 31, 1952 · page 6
C. B. Burnett's Notes on the J-M Industrial Relations Conference on Job Evaluation and Production Standards (1952)
In the document: b 9. Explain standards to union and employees. 10, Make standards effective. 11, Carefully check on standards, 12, Help employees understand methods to be used so 13. Don't leave the installation until operators are making…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 12, 1974 · page 2
Ward Burleson to J-M Attorney Andrea M. Guyer on What J-M Knew About Asbestosis Among Insulators (1974)
In the document: No Physical Exam by Fmoloyer . The union members had a belief that if they were examined and found to be physically defective, no one would hire them. Therefore there were no physical exams by employers or…
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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 · May 2, 1955
C. H. Stevens to W. C. Seeds on Dust Collection in the Manville A Building (1955)
…building before its final cleaning, so the plant would "quite likely return air to the room which is contaminated with fine asbestos dust and fibers," the cause of a union complaint. Stevens proposes changes estimated at…
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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 · December 21, 1966
George W. Hatch of Travelers Insurance to Jack C. Else of Marsh and McLennan on Asbestos Cancer Claims and the Sullivan Case (1966)
…Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai for the claimant, including his finding of 14 mesothelioma deaths among 307 consecutive deaths in the insulators' union, and the weaker testimony of the insurer's own doctor. Travelers' medical…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1949
J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949)
…improvement of working conditions," and adds that the dust was "bound to become a vulnerable point for agitation by union representatives." The "allowable" it measures against is the dust limit of the time (see Threshold Limit…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 27, 1970
J. R. M. Hutcheson to G. L. Swallow on Respirators in the Old Section of the Asbestos, Quebec, Plant (1970)
What it shows Hutcheson's third point explains why respirator use would not be enforced: "Disciplinary action to the point of layoff will be avoided otherwise we face a serious union-management confrontation." Such a confrontation…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 11, 1979
J. W. Szcygielski to Dr. Paul Kotin and D. B. Von Wald on Unreported Pneumoconiosis Cases at Waukegan (1979)
…unfair labor practice charge, which the company resisted as "privileged confidential information." He asked headquarters for "guidance and direction." For the earlier dispute over Waukegan's red slip cases and the union, see Hite's 1971…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1969
Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, August 1969 (1969)
…Marchant's advice, J-M would not work with the labor federation's Industrial Union Department (IUD) on asbestos and health on a company-wide or industry-wide basis, but would "identify and solve these problems…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 28, 1970 · page 3
Johns-Manville Report on the Current Status of Asbestos/Health, Prepared for the Seaview Meeting (1970)
In the document: …ashestos-related health hazards to workers and to the general public at Manville have been raised by the striking union. The New Jersey press has given a great deal of coverage to these union nllmtt&ao…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 8, 1960
A. B. Marchant to A. K. Higbee on Waukegan's Handling of a Compensation Case (1960)
…in the past year "with terms favorable to the company," with "a minimum amount of legal expense and a minimum degree of Union interest." The plant's medical department problems continued that fall (Seppala to Mulder…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 5, 1966
C. L. Hite to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on the X-Rays of Marrero Worker Steve Cedotal (1966)
…whether workers should be told of their own diagnoses, comes up again in J-M's union talks in 1968 (union-management meeting notes, 1968). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1949
Canadian Johns-Manville, Facts and Figures about Canadian Johns-Manville (1949)
…town's air, not the mill. It ends by saying the last union agreement "remained in effect until January 31, 1949," which places it at the time of the Asbestos Strike of 1949. For what the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1951
Dr. A. J. Lanza, Memorandum on the Control of Pneumoconiosis Due to Diatomaceous Earth (1951)
…done," and the industry's position would be helped. His proposed steps included presenting the program to union officials and to employees through Industrial Relations. The memo shows that by 1951 J-M had X-ray…
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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 · November 25, 1932
J. P. Kottcamp to S. A. Williams on Asbestosis Cases at Waukegan (1932)
…the ones referred to by Mr. Silverman in the case of the Union Asbestos & Lumber Company." A month later Kottcamp reported that no money had yet been spent (letter of December 22, 1932). In Johns-Manville…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 10, 1966
Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference Leaders' Reports on Working Conditions (1966)
…conditions," and one group wrote that where poor conditions existed the company should act "rather than allow the union to force the issue." One group also asked whether J-M should have "full-time people to…