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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 15, 1957

    Union Complaints and J-M Correspondence on Dust in the Manville Textile "A" Building (1957)

    …in "A" Building. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Edward Macko (President of a local Manville labor union) writes to M.F…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 30, 1961

    C. L. Sheckler to All Industrial Relations Managers on Union Requests for Dust Count Records (1961)

    …M complied with state rules and had adopted the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists' Threshold Limit Values as its standard, and to report any request from a union, committee or individual to headquarters at once…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 14, 1953

    H. M. Jackson to O. B. Westmont on the Lompoc Housekeeping Procedures Manual (1953)

    …follows: Housekeeping procedures manual has been prepared by the Lompoc plant. Jackson okays providing the Union and USPHS with copies of it on 9/14/53. Jackson suggests that notations in the manual indicating that various…

  4. Company document · WARD Documents · March 11, 1969

    H. M. Jackson to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on Explaining the Membrane Filter Technique to Unions (1969)

    …that J-M would measure asbestos dust by counting fibers on a membrane filter in the worker's breathing zone. Jackson's addition was that unions and employees should be told about the new method too.

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 10, 1960

    C. L. Sheckler and Others on a Mandatory Respirator Program at the Manville Plant (1960)

    …though there is a recognized health hazard and we may be generating additional O.D. [occupational disease] cases," because of "our vulnerable position from the Union and the State standpoint" and the added wage cost. W…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 12, 1971

    C. L. Sheckler to J. D. Anderson and L. H. Hemerda on Reporting Cancer Cases at Manville (1971)

    …cancer, including mesothelioma," with everything except the X-ray films. Reports were to be made as soon as the plant learned of a possible case, whether from outside doctors, disability retirement requests, the union or supervisors.

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 13, 1969

    H. M. Jackson, Manville Textile Plant Survey by the New Fiber-Count Method (1969)

    …A "premium" for respirator work, he wrote, would have to be negotiated with the union, and "without such an approach, numerous difficulties are anticipated." At the time J-M's limit for asbestos fiber was 12…

  8. Film · Films · 1982

    Videotaped Deposition of Clifford L. Sheckler (1982)

    …were the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of Mount Sinai, Hospital, the Heat Frost and Asbestos Workers International Union, the United States Public Health Service, and Johns-Manville Corporation. Did Johns-Manville support the program financially? They did…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)

    …or possibly customer liability claims." He warned that unions were pressing for "review of our J-M dust counts or other Industrial Hygiene records," and that poor conditions lead to "incurable and often fatal occupational diseases…