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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 27, 1970

    J. R. M. Hutcheson to G. L. Swallow on Respirators in the Old Section of the Asbestos, Quebec, Plant (1970)

    What it shows Hutcheson's third point explains why respirator use would not be enforced: "Disciplinary action to the point of layoff will be avoided otherwise we face a serious union-management confrontation." Such a confrontation…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 11, 1979

    J. W. Szcygielski to Dr. Paul Kotin and D. B. Von Wald on Unreported Pneumoconiosis Cases at Waukegan (1979)

    …unfair labor practice charge, which the company resisted as "privileged confidential information." He asked headquarters for "guidance and direction." For the earlier dispute over Waukegan's red slip cases and the union, see Hite's 1971…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…

  8. 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…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 5, 1951

    Dr. A. J. Lanza, Memorandum on the Control of Pneumoconiosis Due to Diatomaceous Earth (1951)

    …done," and the industry's position would be helped. His proposed steps included presenting the program to union officials and to employees through Industrial Relations. The memo shows that by 1951 J-M had X-ray…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 25, 1932

    J. P. Kottcamp to S. A. Williams on Asbestosis Cases at Waukegan (1932)

    …the ones referred to by Mr. Silverman in the case of the Union Asbestos & Lumber Company." A month later Kottcamp reported that no money had yet been spent (letter of December 22, 1932). In Johns-Manville…

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

    Johns-Manville Industrial Relations Conference Leaders' Reports on Working Conditions (1966)

    …conditions," and one group wrote that where poor conditions existed the company should act "rather than allow the union to force the issue." One group also asked whether J-M should have "full-time people to…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1959

    M. W. Blackhurst's Final Report on Asbestos for Coal Mine Rock Dusting (1959)

    …free and combined silica, and asbestos contains about 40 percent. With the support of the United Mine Workers Union, J-M persuaded the Bureau to test asbestos in its experimental coal mine. Both wet and dry…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 25, 1968

    Manville Pipe Plant Manager's Notice on Mandatory Respirators and Ear Protection (1968)

    …managers had told the union at Manville that workers who refused protective equipment would be disciplined (see the February 1968 union-management meeting). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 5, 1936

    Vandiver Brown to H. B. Meller of the Air Hygiene Foundation on Describing Asbestosis (1936)

    …support the foundation as a source of experts "who understand and sympathize with Industry's viewpoint" (letter to Union Asbestos & Rubber). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 2, 1977

    W. B. Reitze to H. B. Moreno, Trip Report on Asberit and Magnebras in Brazil (1977)

    …For the Manville "A" Building, see the 1957 union complaints. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: Reitze memorandum to H.B. Moreno…

  19. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 1972

    Waukegan Plant List of Red Slip Pneumoconiosis Cases, with Dates Diagnosed and Dates Informed (1972)

    …Hite's 1971 letter on the red slip cases and the union. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: This is a list…

  20. 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…