C. J. Stover to M. F. Judd on Funding the Asbestos Institute's Voluntary Agreement Effort (1935)

A one-page letter of December 14, 1935, from C. J. Stover of Philadelphia, on "Asbestos" letterhead, to M. F. Judd, secretary of the Raybestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan. Stover wrote that L. H. Brown, L. R. Hoff and Mr. Haynes, secretary of the Asbestos Institute, had been working with the Federal Trade Commission toward a "Voluntary Agreement, under which the Asbestos Industry can lawfully establish uniform hours and rates for labor and may use price publicity." Writing to members of the former groups of the industry's code in Mr. Tulloch's absence, he asked whether the company would continue, for the time being, to help pay for the effort, whose cost to any one company was "trifling."

What it shows

The letter shows Stover, publisher of Asbestos Magazine, also acting for the industry's trade association on matters of wages, hours and prices, with Johns-Manville's Lewis H. Brown among those leading the work in Washington.

In Johns-Manville's index

Johns-Manville's attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows:

Requests to know if Raybestos will continue to financially support the effort by the Asbestos Textile Institute toward a voluntary agreement under which the Asbestos Industry could lawfully establish uniform hours and rates for labor and could use price publicity.

About this copy

This is document 02760 of the Sumner Simpson Papers, as numbered in the collection's index.