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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 · WARD Documents · April 9, 1970 · page 4
Faustin J. Solon, Jr., Our Shrinking Environment, Speech to the Savannah Industrial Management Club (1970)
In the document: …the competition for top spot as the strongest supporter of environmental reformis fierce. In his State of the Union message, President Nixon said that we must “make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations…
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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 · WARD Documents · 1958 · page 22
Johns-Manville, Working Together in J-M, Employee Handbook (1958)
In the document: …For example, hourly paid personnel at plants who are members of a credit union may have their regular subscription paid into the credit union through payroll deduction. At J-M plants where a sufhcient number T…
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Company document · WARD Documents · June 5, 1984 · page 6
Nancy Vedera to J-M Attorneys Enclosing an Organization Directory for the Insurance Litigation (1984)
In the document: …compiled from.. This list .is logated.in the J-M. Knowledge .o (magazine) Official publication of the IAHFIAW (Asbestos Workers' Union). A copy of the magazine is mailed free of charge to each member. Its stated…
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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 · WARD Documents · October 25, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 22, on Not Circulating NIOSH's Asbestos Booklet to Employees (1973)
…the remarks were not "a rebuttal" but might prove useful "if the employee should raise questions or the union should formally request information." Two weeks later J-M sent its own booklet to its plants (OSHA…
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Company document · WARD Documents · November 7, 1973
W. B. Reitze, OSHA Letter No. 23, Sending "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos" to the Plants (1973)
…22). J-M's booklet is attached to McKinney's 1974 memo on foreign customers, which reports no adverse union or employee reaction to it. Plant managers were to choose how to hand it out, ideally…
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 15, 1980
W. B. Reitze to Plant Managers on OSHA's Rule on Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (1980)
…useless provision, because under the Freedom of Information Act, sooner or later all data is leaked." Later that year Reitze warned that withholding retirees' records from a union would break the rule (W. B. Reitze to…
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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 · 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 · Motley 1000 · May 19, 1969
Edmund M. Fenner, Industrial Pneumoconiosis Prevention and Control (1969)
…J-M adopted the threshold limit the Saranac scientists suggested. He described the insulators' program as jointly paid for by Johns-Manville and the asbestos workers' union, for "the men who apply and remove pipe and…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1959
M. W. Blackhurst's Final Report on Asbestos for Coal Mine Rock Dusting (1959)
…free and combined silica, and asbestos contains about 40 percent. With the support of the United Mine Workers Union, J-M persuaded the Bureau to test asbestos in its experimental coal mine. Both wet and dry…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 25, 1968
Manville Pipe Plant Manager's Notice on Mandatory Respirators and Ear Protection (1968)
…managers had told the union at Manville that workers who refused protective equipment would be disciplined (see the February 1968 union-management meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 5, 1936
Vandiver Brown to H. B. Meller of the Air Hygiene Foundation on Describing Asbestosis (1936)
…support the foundation as a source of experts "who understand and sympathize with Industry's viewpoint" (letter to Union Asbestos & Rubber). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew…