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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1962

    Union Carbide Institute Plant Dust Surveys of J-M Thermobestos Insulation Blocks (1962)

    …M's Manville, New Jersey laboratory. Sexton wrote on December 4 that J-M was "extremely interested" in having Union Carbide use Thermobestos, and that he did not favor Peele accepting the invitation. The papers show…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 22, 1968

    W. L. Ruff's Notes of a Manville Union-Management Meeting on Dust, Noise and Examination Results (1968)

    What it shows The union's complaint, recorded in the company's own notes, concerns a practice that runs through J-M's earlier papers: not telling workers what their examinations showed (see Dr. Kenneth Smith…

  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. Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1968

    Albert E. Hutchinson, From the General President, The Asbestos Worker (August 1968)

    …See also Asbestos Workers Union. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: In the 8/68 edition of Asbestos Worker magazine there appears…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 25, 1964

    J. B. Jobe to D. L. Hinmon on Labeling Asbestos Products to Lessen Claims (1964)

    …25/64 states: "In view of the importance being given to the subject by the Asbestos Workers Union it is our belief that we should take advantage of any items which could lessen our exposure to…

  6. Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 8, 1968

    Irving J. Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg, Asbestos Exposure, Smoking, and Neoplasia (1968)

    …E. Cuyler Hammond of the American Cancer Society, on 370 members of the insulators' union in New York and Newark followed from 1963 to April 1967. Of 283 men with a history of regular cigarette smoking…

  7. 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…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1968

    Carl Thompson of Hill and Knowlton to Bert C. Goss on the Johns-Manville Project on the Selikoff Program (1968)

    …brake linings, mesothelioma, ambient air, etc." J-M had just agreed to fund the research (see the union president's August 1968 letter), and this memo shows it also arranging, through its public relations firm, how…

  9. 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…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 19, 1968

    Dr. Leonard J. Bristol to H. M. Jackson on the Billerica Plant Chest X-Rays (1968)

    …reading a series of chest X-rays from J-M's Billerica Plant in Massachusetts and sent 59 reports and 12 forms using the new classification of the Cincinnati and International Union Against Cancer (UICC) committee…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1964

    G. A. Wall to J. G. Moore and Others on Dryer Standards at Manville (1964)

    …Grote and R. Wyllie on a union grievance over the production standards for pulling dryer cars and unloading pipe covering at the Manville plant. Wall listed the changes since the standards were set in 1946 and…

  12. 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…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 13, 1960

    National Insulation Manufacturers Association Winter Meeting Minutes (1960)

    …17 insulation makers attended, among them five men from Johns-Manville Sales Corporation (including J. B. Jobe), along with Eagle-Picher, Keasbey & Mattison, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Union Asbestos & Rubber and others, plus the association…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1969

    Selikoff, Pundsack and Hammond, "Fibrous Dust Respirator Protection: Designing for Workman Acceptance and Effectiveness" (1969)

    …against chrysotile, but noted that amosite and crocidolite had not been tested. In two-day field trials with union members and an insulation contractor, men wearing a J-M prototype with an exhalation valve, the same…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 21, 1966

    George W. Hatch of Travelers Insurance to Jack C. Else of Marsh and McLennan on Asbestos Cancer Claims and the Sullivan Case (1966)

    …Irving J. Selikoff of Mount Sinai for the claimant, including his finding of 14 mesothelioma deaths among 307 consecutive deaths in the insulators' union, and the weaker testimony of the insurer's own doctor. Travelers' medical…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 18, 1969

    Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, August 1969 (1969)

    …Marchant's advice, J-M would not work with the labor federation's Industrial Union Department (IUD) on asbestos and health on a company-wide or industry-wide basis, but would "identify and solve these problems…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 8, 1960

    A. B. Marchant to A. K. Higbee on Waukegan's Handling of a Compensation Case (1960)

    …in the past year "with terms favorable to the company," with "a minimum amount of legal expense and a minimum degree of Union interest." The plant's medical department problems continued that fall (Seppala to Mulder…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 5, 1966

    C. L. Hite to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on the X-Rays of Marrero Worker Steve Cedotal (1966)

    …whether workers should be told of their own diagnoses, comes up again in J-M's union talks in 1968 (union-management meeting notes, 1968). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of…

  19. 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…

  20. 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…