16 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 9, 1944
Bell Asbestos Mines to Canadian Johns-Manville Enclosing Union and Company Briefs to the National War Labour Board (1944)
What it shows The union pointed out that thirty claims had been made to the Workmen's Compensation Commission in two years and only five accepted, that twenty-eight miners (eighteen at Johnson's and ten…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 9, 1949
George K. Foster to A. R. Fisher on a Union Dust Clause in Quebec Arbitration (1949)
…in the alleviation of any nuisance arising from the existence of dust," through measures the company might "from time to time deem to be practical." Where the union's clause committed the company to remove dust…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 27, 1949
Ontario Division of Industrial Hygiene to W. A. Young on Dust Counts at the Port Union Plant (1949)
…of the Division of Industrial Hygiene at the Parliament Buildings in Toronto to W. A. Young of Canadian Johns-Manville at Port Union, Ontario, reporting samples from five places in the plant's Transite pipe operations…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 7, 1949
Asbestos Textile Institute Minutes on the Conklin Cancer Article (1949)
…Raybestos-Manhattan, Keasbey & Mattison, Union Asbestos & Rubber and other members. The secretary read excerpts from "Cancer and Environment" by Graff Conklin in Scientific American (January 1949), and members felt it had "unjustifiably incriminated asbestos as a…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 14, 1949
Canadian Johns-Manville Notices to Employees on Contract Talks and the Asbestos Strike (1949)
…had been declared illegal by the provincial government, described how the union had taken over the company's properties on February 14 until the provincial police helped it regain them, and wrote that "there is nothing…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1942
Charles H. Roemer's Affidavit and Testimony on a 1942-43 Meeting with Vandiver Brown (1942)
…New York headquarters. Roemer, then counsel to the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (Unarco), went with two of its plant managers to ask how J-M handled workers whose X-rays showed asbestos disease. In his…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 3, 1949
J-M Production Engineering Report on Equipment for Thermobestos Pipe Covering and Thermoflex Felts (1949)
…document as follows: J-M's Sales Department contends that, because of J-M's inability to furnish insulation comparable and competitive with Union Asbestos ("Unibestos"), J-M lost applied insulation contracts in 1948 in excess…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 16, 1944
Minutes of the Organization Meeting of the Asbestos Textile Institute (1944)
…makers attended, including Johns-Manville, Raybestos-Manhattan, Keasbey & Mattison, Union Asbestos & Rubber, and Thomas Gatke's Asbestos Textile Company. The members adopted a constitution and by-laws, elected a board of governors and officers (C. H…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 27, 1948
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Calling a Meeting on the Asbestos Dust Report (1948)
…Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum. He sends "Part I" of the Saranac Laboratory report "Asbestos Pneumoconiosis" with his own memorandum, asking that it be treated "with the utmost confidence…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 3, 1949
Vandiver Brown to the Saranac Sponsors Enclosing the Revised Report, Asbestos Pneumoconiosis (1949)
…Keasbey & Mattison, Raybestos-Manhattan, Russell Manufacturing, Thermoid (Southern Asbestos), Union Asbestos & Rubber and United States Gypsum), a four-page memorandum by Brown on the laboratory's September 30, 1948, draft, and the revised report of January…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 30, 1949
J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949)
…improvement of working conditions," and adds that the dust was "bound to become a vulnerable point for agitation by union representatives." The "allowable" it measures against is the dust limit of the time (see Threshold Limit…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1949
Canadian Johns-Manville, Facts and Figures about Canadian Johns-Manville (1949)
…town's air, not the mill. It ends by saying the last union agreement "remained in effect until January 31, 1949," which places it at the time of the Asbestos Strike of 1949. For what the…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 14, 1943
Elliott DeForest of the Northwest Magnesia Association to Washington State on Deleting Its Asbestosis Rule (1943)
…ripe old age, which is significant or the Pipe Coverers Union as compared with the other trades." DeForest states that when there is the slightest amount of dust which might arise from any sawing, the Association…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1940
Johns-Manville Report, Industrial Relations Activities During 1938 and 1939 and Their Results (1940)
…cover labeled for Enders M. Voorhees, a J-M director. It reviews the Industrial Relations Department set up in 1937: labor policy, unions and strikes, labor turnover, wages and hours, and community relations. Under "Safety and…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1945
A. W. Garrett, British Chief Inspector of Factories, on Asbestos Insulation Aboard Ships (1945)
…workers under 18 in dusty asbestos work; and supervision of respirator care and use. He reports that the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation and the unions had accepted these arrangements. By 1945, the British government was treating shipboard…