Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on the 1928 Proceedings of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (1985)

A one-page Manville memo to file of April 23, 1985, from Lois Gaul, on the proceedings of the fifteenth annual meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, held at Paterson, New Jersey, in September 1928 and published in 1929 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. One session was on occupational diseases, with talks by George H. Gehrmann and by J. J. Bloomfield of the U.S. Public Health Service on federal studies of the dusty trades, especially granite cutters. Gaul found "no mention of asbestos" in either talk or in the discussion that followed.

What it shows

Gaul wrote that this meeting was "not relevant to the government litigation" but that the proceedings of all the later annual meetings "should still be reviewed." The memo shows Manville staff in 1985 searching the old proceedings of the state compensation boards for what was said about asbestos, and when.