D. Poutiatine to J. A. McKinney on Labeling Asbestos Bags and the Fiber-Handling Leaflet for International Customers (1972)

A one-page Johns-Manville memo of March 29, 1972, from D. Poutiatine in New York to J. A. McKinney at headquarters in Denver, headed "Labeling of Asbestos Bags." McKinney had referred to a brochure on asbestos dust control that "should be revised and distributed to our International customers." Poutiatine replied that the only such distribution he recalled was the leaflet "Recommended Safety Practices for Handling Asbestos Fiber," which J-M "did distribute very widely to our International accounts," and that a copy had gone to Mr. Carter a few weeks before. A handwritten note, apparently from G. Earl Parker, asks "Dick Carter" to give McKinney a copy of the leaflet.

What it shows

Two months earlier Poutiatine had recommended that labels on exported fiber bags be "postponed indefinitely" (Poutiatine to Parker, January 1972). This memo shows the safety leaflet being offered as what J-M had done for its overseas customers in place of a label.