Asbestos Textile Institute General Meeting Minutes on an Air Hygiene Program (1947)

Five pages of minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's General Meeting of December 5, 1947, at the Roger Smith Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey, taken by the Institute's manager, Harris D. McKinney. B. W. Luttenberger presented the Air Hygiene Committee's report, which recommended "a $5,000 minimum program" to the Institute. W. C. L. Hemeon of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation answered questions about it and then left the room while the member companies discussed it; they agreed to study the report and decide at the next General Meeting. The rest of the meeting dealt with budgets, cloth standards, sales promotion and a visit to the Institute's fellowship laboratory at Rutgers University.

What it shows

Johns-Manville sent eight men to this meeting, more than any other company. The minutes record the industry's trade group weighing its first paid air hygiene program in late 1947, with an outside engineer from the Industrial Hygiene Foundation advising it. The committee's report itself, said to be attached, is not in this copy.

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, 12/5/47 - General Meeting. Attaches a recommended program by the Air Hygiene Committee (not attached to our copy). Hemeon was called upon to answer some questions in regard to the program. The minutes do not state what the program is.

Related documents

• Asbestos Textile Institute Board of Governors Minutes Electing 1948 Officers (1947)

About this copy

This is document 27 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-000472 to CRMC-Motley1000-Subj-000476.