Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd Confirming Johns-Manville's Hiring of Otto Binder (1936)

A one-page letter of May 27, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, general attorney of Johns-Manville, to M. F. Judd of Raybestos-Manhattan, confirming what was agreed that morning when Judd and Sumner Simpson met in Mr. Williams' office. Johns-Manville would offer Otto Binder full-time work from July 1, when Metropolitan Life released him, and install at Manville, New Jersey, the equipment for "sampling, counting and analyzing dust." It would then lend Binder to Raybestos-Manhattan "from time to time for the purpose of checking dust conditions at your plants," to be repaid his salary and expenses plus an agreed fee for the use of its laboratory and equipment.

What it shows

With Metropolitan Life's survey over, the two companies kept dust measurement going under their own control, with Johns-Manville as Binder's employer and Raybestos-Manhattan paying for his time. Judd accepted the terms on June 1, 1936. The earlier letters are Brown's of March 11 and May 14.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Confirms understanding of Binder's employment with J-M. J-M will hire Binder when he is released from Metropolitan. A laboratory will be installed for him at Manheim. J-M agrees to loan Binder to Raybestos with understanding that Binder's salary, lab costs and travelling expenses for those projects will be reimbursed to J-M.

Related documents

• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Metropolitan Life Releasing Otto Binder (1936)
• Vandiver Brown to M. F. Judd on Otto Binder's Availability After the Metropolitan Survey (1936)
• M. F. Judd to Vandiver Brown Agreeing to the Arrangement for Otto Binder (1936)
• M. F. Judd to George R. Weber on Otto Binder Leaving Metropolitan Life (1936)
• E. H. Jeffords to M. F. Judd on Metropolitan Life Releasing Otto Binder Before the Charleston Trials (1936)
• Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan Letters on Hiring Dust Counter Otto Binder (1936)

About this copy

This is document 02847-02849 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.