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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 2, 1935

    J. P. Kottcamp to S. A. Williams on Waukegan Dust Collecting Equipment (1935)

    …the company knew describes this document as follows: J.P. Kottcamp (Waukegan) asks S.A. Williams (General Headquarters), in a memorandum dated 7/2/35, what to do about certain approved budget proposals for dust control…

  2. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1936

    J. P. Kottcamp to Vandiver Brown on an Illinois Manufacturers' Meeting About the New Disease Law (1936)

    …should be kept on the payroll regardless of the fact that he may later become an expense to the Company." He warned that a "general house cleaning" would cause labor trouble costing more than it saved…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 21, 1966

    Joe Goldfield to A. C. Smith, Observations and Recommendations from a Trip to Turner Brothers (1966)

    …E. Finderne) to A.C. Smith, H.Q. General Engineer, 3/21/66. The memorandum sets forth Goldfield's observations and recommendations based on a trip he had made to Turner Brothers Asbestos Company, Ltd. in…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1970

    Johns-Manville, "History of Johns-Manville Health Research" (1970)

    …air (see Jackson's 1951 request). It also reports that a University of Pittsburgh study of J-M retirees found some causes of death higher than in the general population, and that in the McGill study…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 16, 1948

    Johns-Manville President's Bulletin No. 59 on Capital Spending (1948)

    …listed proposals is for the correction of substandard working conditions. The Bulletin states that J-M's policy in general is to provide good working conditions, but it has had to suspend improvements because of the…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1981

    Kenneth G. Gulley to Robert S. Venning on Why J-M Fought Discovery of Plant Workers' Compensation Files (1981)

    …then sold." He also reported that Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, "has stated that there are plant physicians who have not yet been deposed in the underlying actions and who claim that they were…

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 22, 1976

    R. S. Lamar to W. H. Ashton of Johnson & Johnson on Rubino's Talc Mortality Study (1976)

    …others at J-M, and the letter is filed under "Talc (general)." In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: R.S. Lamar (J…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 25, 1956

    S. E. Williams to H. M. Jackson on a Customer's Question About Colorlith Dust (1956)

    …of pigment (carbon black, burnt umber, or chrome green depending on the color)." The memorandum refers to Research Center File:4224. Related documents J-M General Engineering Report on the Waukegan Transite Pipe Dust System (1949)

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 15, 1940

    Vandiver Brown to F. G. Lippert on Metropolitan Life and the Jarratt X-Rays (1940)

    …11/15/40, to F.G. Lippert, General Headquarters, expresses the concern that Metropolitan Life is not very enthusiastic about continuing to examine and interpret the pre-employment x-rays made at Jarratt. V. Brown says…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 18, 1935

    Vandiver Brown's Memorandum on the Mellon Institute Symposium on Dust Problems (1935)

    …first answer was that it saw no need for the Mellon Institute's services yet (Raybestos-Manhattan's general manager to Brown). In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 11, 1977

    W. A. Cooper to Dr. Paul Kotin on the History of J-M's Employee Education About Asbestos (1977)

    …and warned against taking dust home on work clothes. The J-M and industry papers told the public there was "no evidence" of risk to the general public. For the March 1974 customer seminars Cooper mentions…

  12. Government report · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 1938

    Dreessen and Others, A Study of Asbestosis in the Asbestos Textile Industry (1938)

    …study of textile industry proposes tentative safe standard of 5 mppcf. Notes vast recent improvements by industry. Related documents Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service on Dust Standards (1930)

  13. Article · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 1932

    Theodore F. Hatch and Eugene P. Pendergrass, The Konicide Club (1932–1940): A Brief History (1977)

    …in 1/39, was devoted entirely to the problems of the asbestos industry. Titles of lectures at this meeting included "General Survey of the Asbestos Industry and Its Engineering Problems"; "Experimental Pathology Concerning Asbestos"; "Clinical and…

  14. 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)

    …Commission, and since the presentation of the union's brief, 28 workers have been forced to stop work because of their health. In general, insurance covers a portion of the wages lost, due to illness, but…

  15. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 12, 1979

    C. G. Linke to John A. McKinney on J-M's Asbestos Positions and the Facts (1979)

    …acting like the Wronged Woman and begin communicating and demonstrating what I believe to be your genuine concern for the general well-being and health of our own and our customers' employees and the general public."

  16. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 22, 1968

    C. W. Hite to N. J. Gray on C. B. Burnett's Dust Control Orders at the Senior Officers' Meeting (1968)

    …Burnett at a Senior Officers' meeting. Burnett stated the following: (1) Environmental Control, General Plant Engineering, and Industrial Relations are not forceful enough in following standards, (2) No progress has been made regarding the use of…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 6, 1956

    Dr. Daniel C. Braun to H. M. Jackson Sending Lung Cancer Literature for the Asbestos Textile Industry (1956)

    …pulmonary asbestosis and is not merely a possible sequel of exposure to asbestos dust" and states that "claims for compensation will become of increasing frequency due to the general increase of carcinoma of the lung." Dr…

  18. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · April 29, 1963

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. L. Sheckler at the J-M Industrial Relations Managers' Meeting (1963)

    …mechanical exhaust systems, and general low grade health standards exists." Sheckler also stated that a major reason for industrial hygiene surveys is to have documented evidence for presentation to governmental agencies when required, as well as…

  19. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 17, 1961

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith's Industrial Health Talk at the J-M Management Information Session (1961)

    …Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: During a presentation given on 10/17/61 to J-M General Headquarters and Division management personnel…

  20. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 30, 1980

    Dr. Paul Kotin to J. A. McKinney on the Lack of a Corporate Asbestos Policy (1980)

    …. Another grave aspect of the present predicament .is the general uncertainty and the depressing effect on morale that goes with our vacillation. And not less discouraging is the fact that in the absence of any firm…