Asbestos Textile Institute Quarterly Meeting Minutes, New York and the Quebec Mines, First Page (1956)

The first page only of the minutes of the Asbestos Textile Institute's second quarterly meeting of 1956, held in New York on June 4 and at Thetford Mines and Asbestos, Quebec, from June 5 to 7. It lists those attending under the institute's president, F. J. Wakem of Johns-Manville: men from Asbestos Corporation, Bell Asbestos Mines, Cassiar Asbestos, Johnson's Company, Canadian Johns-Manville, Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan and Southern Asbestos, with Dr. Paul Cartier among the guests. The page says the New York day was given to committee meetings and that fifteen members went by rail to Thetford Mines, "being delayed some eight hours on arrival due to track washouts."

What it shows

The textile makers took their June 1956 meeting to the Quebec mines that supplied their fiber. The Air Hygiene Committee's own minutes for June 4 are on a separate page, and a Raybestos-Manhattan report on the mine visit, where Dr. Cartier said he had found asbestosis only among mill workers, is here.

About this copy

Only the first page of the minutes is in this file; the rest of the meeting record is missing.