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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 23, 1968

    Hooker Chemical Corporation and N. W. Hendry on Caution Labels for Asbestos Fiber Bags (1968–1969)

    …N. W. Hendry, general sales manager of Johns-Manville Asbestos Limited in Asbestos, Quebec. J-M had sent notice a few months earlier that a caution label would become a standard part of its asbestos packaging…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 1957

    Industrial Hygiene Foundation, An Epidemiological Study of Lung Cancer in Asbestos Miners, Report to the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association (1957)

    …the Thetford and Asbestos mines in Quebec to discover whether the incidence of lung cancer is greater among asbestos miners than among the general population and whether there is a correlation between lung cancer and asbestosis…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 29, 1975

    J. R. D. Wilson's Notice to Toronto Plant Employees on Smoking and Asbestos (1975)

    …cites a study by Dr. Irving Selikoff of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine indicating that without smoking, lung cancer among asbestos workers would be no higher than in the general population. From June 2, 1975…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 16, 1959

    J. R. M. Hutcheson to G. S. Smith on Dryer Stack Dust Control at Asbestos, Quebec (1959)

    …to G. S. Smith at J-M's general headquarters, on controlling dust from the mill's dryer stacks. Hutcheson accepted Smith's appraisal of high-efficiency collectors and a level of 5 tons per day…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 29, 1964

    J. V. Miles to C. L. Sheckler on a Serious Dust Problem at the Marrero Pipe Plant (1964)

    …L. Sheckler at General Headquarters on the 1964 industrial hygiene survey. Miles was "disappointed" that only two of the ten dust stations sampled in the Wet End on May 22 had supported the plant's view…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 7, 1966

    Joe Goldfield to J. A. Vermeulen, Report of a Trip to Turner Brothers Asbestos Co. on Health Problems (1966)

    …Co., Ltd., at Rochdale and Hindley Green in England. This part covered "general and health problems." Goldfield described Turner Brothers, part of the Turner & Newall group, and began a history of English health measures, which dated…

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 8, 1970

    John C. Settle of Travelers to Richard R. Standel, Jr. on Settling the Frances T. Rogers Claim (1970)

    …Company, to Richard R. Standel, Jr., J-M's associate general counsel, on a claim against J-M by Frances T. Rogers. Settle notes Standel's plans to discuss a possible compromise and says that, since…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 7, 1936

    Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhattan Letters on Hiring Dust Counter Otto Binder (1936)

    …On March 11 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, told Judd that "the Metropolitan survey of our two companies is now practically completed" and offered Binder to sample dust at R-M plants to check…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1953

    Johns-Manville Board of Directors Minutes on the Celite Dust Abatement Program at Lompoc (1953)

    …California. Arthur Elsenbast, vice president and general manager of the Celite Division, told the board that before the early 1930s neither industry nor medicine knew that diatomaceous earth dust was a hazard, and that over $1…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1979

    Johns-Manville Chairman of the Board's Bulletin on Smoking and Health at World Headquarters (1979)

    …McKinney, setting a smoking policy at Johns-Manville's World Headquarters. Citing "the strong direct link between smoking and several disabling or fatal diseases" and the Surgeon General's report of January 11, 1979, it extended…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 17, 1968

    Johns-Manville Environmental Health Task Force Policy Committee Minutes, December 1968 (1968)

    …pointing up good practices in handling fibre," which president C. B. Burnett suggested be sent each year by registered mail, and Burnett asked general counsel Herbert Ball to look into other countries' rules on warning labels.

  12. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 17, 1940

    Johns-Manville Executive Bulletin on Respirator and Goggle Prices (1940)

    …the company knew describes this document as follows: Executive bulletin dated 4/17/40 from D. Lyons (J-M general headquarters) of 2/1/40, listing costs for respirators and goggles from various vendors in Pittsburgh…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1930

    Johns-Manville, Instructions to Employees, Manville Factory (1930s)

    …fire signals and insurance. Its General Policy begins, "The Company intends that its employees be treated fairly," and invites workers to speak to their supervisor about anything "that might affect the health of employees." New hires…

  14. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 18, 1958

    Johns-Manville Memos on a Caution Label for Marinite (1958)

    …Herbert Morton Ball, J-M's secretary and general attorney, warned that a dusty situation at the Newport News Shipbuilding yard "may result in extensive legal liability" and urged a label on the back of the…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 19, 1944

    Kenneth Smith to F. G. Lippert on Workers Handling Bags of South African Blue Fibre (1944)

    …to F. G. Lippert at J-M's general headquarters in New York, headed "South African Blue Fibre." A shipment of 10,000 jute bags marked "Blue C & G" had arrived from California, and because much…

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1950

    Kenneth W. Smith to R. S. Gardner on the Causes of Lung Cancer (1950)

    …and fumes are known to cause lung cancer," he wrote, but he knew of no definite hazard from that source in J-M's general operations. "The chief causes of lung cancer are dust and certain…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 10, 1950

    M. F. Naylor to J. P. Woodard on X-Ray Follow-Up of 84 Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases (1950)

    …to J. P. Woodard at J-M's General Headquarters, headed "Manville Industrial Hygiene Cases." Naylor writes that Dr. Pauly had not agreed to an annual X-ray program for the 84 men on the company…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 20, 1936

    Memorandum of Agreement Funding Gardner's Asbestos Experiments at Saranac Laboratory (1936)

    …Eleven companies signed. The same day Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, authorized Gardner to begin, "for the purpose of determining more definitely the causes and effects of asbestosis," and set the terms: the results…

  19. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 5, 1970

    Minutes of the Formation and First Board Meetings of the Asbestos Information Association/North America (1970)

    …Asbestos Information Association/North America "to inform the public concerning the facts about the asbestos/health problem." They named Harold McNabb of Certain-Teed chairman and Raines secretary, had J-M's general counsel H. M…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 2, 1978

    Notes of Dennis Markusson and Barbara Diemer's Interview of Hugh Jackson on J-M Health and Safety History (1978)

    …by Dennis H. Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, and Barbara Diemer (joined on the second day by a Claudette P.). Jackson summarized the company's past health and safety practice: respirators "were not mandatory…