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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 · September 10, 1954

    Dr. Herbert K. Abrams of the International Chemical Workers Union and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Conditions at J-M Plants (1954)

    …were reported as given and not yet checked, and that the Lompoc union delegate had praised the plant's progress in "health safeguards." Nineteen days after his first letter, Smith told the Waukegan plant to start…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 16, 1965

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to N. W. Hendry, "Asbestos versus Cancer" (1965)

    …s main problem with the report is that the men examined, who were called "asbestos workers," were men who belonged to the asbestos workers union, a group of men who are exposed to asbestos fiber along…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 3, 1964

    Kenneth W. Smith to E. W. Redd of Leed Insulator Corporation on Asbestosis (1964)

    …this document as follows: Dr. K.W. Smith letter to E.W. Redd (Leed Insulator Corporation) dated 12/3/64, responding to Redd's inquiry concerning asbestosis and insulation workers. Referring to the Selikoff report, Dr…

  7. 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.

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 29, 1954

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to Boyd Mulder on Telling Waukegan Employees Their Examination Results (1954)

    …recommends that Waukegan develop a disclosure procedure similar to Lompoc's, which he says has been successful for J-M, the union and the employees. Dr. Smith is also going to send Mulder some new forms…

  9. Book · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1955

    Kenneth W. Smith, "Asbestosis," Chapter 2 of The Pneumoconioses (1955)

    What it shows Smith objects that "The term 'asbestos worker' has been used too freely," since it often meant a member of the Asbestos Workers Union, insulators who also applied mineral wool, glass fiber and magnesia…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1958

    Dr. Kenneth Smith to J. M. Gadway on Pulmonary Function Studies at Lompoc (1958)

    …results of lung tests on Lompoc workers before they were reported, and raised the timing of the tests against the plant's coming union contract talks. Four months later Smith suggested what Lompoc employees should be…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1966

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to O. A. Battista of Food Machinery Corporation on Asbestos Health Hazards (1966)

    …to Hendry, 1965), now sent to an outside company: the men were "asbestos workers" only by union membership, and Smith did not believe there was "a serious health hazard associated with the use of asbestos, particularly…

  12. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 10, 1966

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's "Health Projects" Talk at the Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference (1966)

    …your production schedules or upset your employee relations." He also described J-M's part in a planned health research institute of the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association and his appointment to the International Union Against Cancer…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 19, 1948

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to George K. Foster Reviewing the Saranac Asbestosis Report (1948)

    …Sabourin insisted on this point and we have adhered to this decision implicitly. Even the head of the union here thinks that Dr. Vidal selected the men for examination and that all I did was to…

  14. 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…

  15. 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…