Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes (June 1948)

Five pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's general meeting of June 17, 1948, at The Warwick in Philadelphia, signed by Harris D. McKinney, the Institute's manager. Representatives of Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Union Asbestos & Rubber and other members attended. Among other business, the manager reported that a program recommended by the Institute's Air Hygiene Committee "has not received the necessary approval" in a poll of member companies, and he was told to notify the committee's chairman so the Industrial Hygiene Foundation could be informed.

What it shows

Most of the meeting dealt with housekeeping: the Institute was giving up the office of manager, amended its by-laws, and voted on renewing its research fellowship with Rutgers University. The minutes also record that the members decided it was "not advisable" for now to begin a program of education on the "merits and limitations" of asbestos textiles for makers and users of asbestos safety clothing. Read with the Air Hygiene Committee's November 1947 recommendation of an engineering and medical program by the Industrial Hygiene Foundation (Motley document 64), the poll result shows that the member companies did not approve the dust-control program at this time.

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, 6/17/48 - General Meeting.

Related documents

• Asbestos Textile Institute Air Hygiene Committee Minutes on the Industrial Hygiene Foundation Program (1947)

About this copy

This is document 65 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-000736 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000740.