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  1. 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…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1, 1977

    Dr. William R. Paul's Memo on the Zelienople Plant and Abnormal X-Rays Workers Were Not Told About (1977)

    …role of the radiologist" by saying the films were of poor quality. The union pressed him on why the doctor had not retaken them, and the men said the plant doctor "doesn't tell them anything…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 4, 1972

    Fred L. Pundsack to Dr. Irving J. Selikoff on Estimating Past Dust Levels at the Manville Plant (1972)

    What it shows The estimates were for Selikoff's study of the Manville plant, which the local union had asked him to make (Selikoff's request to J. B. Jobe, Jobe's agreement). Blind copies went…

  4. 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…

  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 · February 24, 1977

    Aetna Technical Services Report on J-M's Claim, Medical and Cost Accounting Facilities at Manville (1977)

    …90% of the union employees have filed or will file a claim based upon an allegation of "occupational disease" either for asbestosis or loss of hearing. Approximately 10% of the non-union employees will likewise file…

  8. 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…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 14, 1956

    B. F. Stanton to S. Lower on Dust at the No. 4 Roofing Machine in the Manville Plant (1956)

    …Stanton states that "[t]he several union complaints and the suggestion by certain operators that they should walk off the job 'rather than inhale that dust' are not without justification." Stanton urges correction of the problem…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. 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…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 19, 1979

    Dennis H. Markusson to R. B. Von Wald on Amending Waukegan's OSHA Logs (1979)

    …union of the identity of individuals with occupationally related illnesses. On page 7, Markusson suggests that Waukegan amend Manville's logs entering those employees who request that his identity not be made known to the union…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1971

    Dr. Irving J. Selikoff to J. B. Jobe Asking for Data on Manville Plant Workers (1971)

    …was reflected by inadequate control measures, will plague us for some years." He offers assurances: "It is not our intention that your cooperation hurt you," the data would be for research only, individuals' information would stay…

  16. 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…

  17. 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…

  18. 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…

  19. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 14, 1978

    H. B. Moreno to Dr. Paul Kotin on a Smoking Ban at J-M's Belgian Asbestos-Cement Plants (1978)

    …M had discussed a "No Smoking" ban at its asbestos-cement plants at Mol and Ghent; managers favored it but said the best way to a complete ban was to enlist the unions. Up to then…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 5, 1974

    J. A. McKinney to W. L. VanDerbeek on Informing Foreign Customers About Asbestos (1974)

    …Health." McKinney reports that the booklet "What Every Employee Should Know About Asbestos," sent to 21 J-M plants the previous November, had drawn no adverse union or employee reaction, and recommends sending it to customers…