Asbestos Textile Institute Asbestos Advisory Committee on a Customer Brochure and a Government Health Form (1970)

One page of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's Asbestos Advisory Committee meeting of June 11, 1970, at the Foremen's Club in Thetford Mines, Quebec, signed by its chairman, M. Q. Scowcroft. Most of the meeting went to a brochure meant "to aid the customers of our industry to provide their employees comfortable and healthy working conditions," with the warning: "We must be careful not to offer a document which can be utilized by a union to force a management into an unfortunate bargaining position." The committee also discussed a form that members making textiles for the U.S. Government had to fill out on materials that "allegedly could be dangerous or damaging to health," and agreed each member "should use extreme caution in filling out the form in order to minimize repercussions in the U.S. Government."

What it shows

The minutes show the textile makers in 1970 weighing what a health brochure for customers should and should not say, with "many suggestions as to what possibly should not be included," and how carefully to answer a federal health form about their products.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's legal department indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows:

ATI Meeting Minutes, 6/11/70, Thetford Mines, Quebec - Asbestos Advisory Committee. There is discussion of the pamphlet or brochure which is being prepared by the Committee "to aid customers of their industry to provide their employees comfortable and healthy working conditions." It is stated that industry must be careful not to offer a document which could be used by a union to force management into an unfortunate bargaining position. There is also discussion of a new form which is to be filled out by members producing textiles in the U.S. which could be dangerous or damaging to health. It is agreed that each member should use extreme caution in filling out the form in order to minimize repercussions by the U.S. Government.

About this copy

This is document 346 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust's records facility certified as true copies, pages CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001724 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001724.