Sixth Saranac Symposium on Pneumoconiosis, Last Page of the Participant List (1947)

A single page (page 598) from the published proceedings of the Sixth Saranac Symposium on pneumoconiosis, held at Saranac Lake, New York, in 1947: the end of the list of participants, names W to Z. Those listed include representatives of the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Workmen's Compensation Board, American Brake Shoe Company and the Trudeau Foundation.

What it shows

The 1984 index describes much more than this page: the table of contents, a talk by Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's attorney, titled "The Management Viewpoint," on compensation for lung diseases and the dust limit for asbestos, and the full participant list. None of that is in the certified set. The symposium's program and part of its participant list are published as letters on the Sixth Saranac Symposium.

In Johns-Manville's index

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

Table of Contents and a selection from the 6th Saranac Symposium on Pneumoconiosis, held in 1947. The selection is a speech of V. Brown entitled "The Management Viewpoint." Brown discusses the subject of compensation for occupational pulmonary disease. He states that "management generally favors compensation for true occupational diseases..., although it is realized that those of pulmonary character present many special and difficult problems." Some of the problems Brown mentions are the question of the causal connection between the disease and employment, the degree of disability, and the level of exposure which causes disease. Brown states that the current TLV is 5mpcf, but that "no one can state with certainty what is the maximum allowable limit for asbestos dust. I am certain no study has been made specifically directed toward ascertaining this figure and I question whether there exists sufficient data correlating the disease to the degree of exposure to warrant any determination that will even approximate accuracy." Also includes a list of the participants in the 6th Saranac Symposium. Members of the asbestos industry (including J-M) and the insurance industry attended.

About this copy

This is document 299 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-001424 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-001424.