10 results for “General Electric”
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 14, 1945
Canadian Johns-Manville Memo to Headquarters on Stopping Return of Foreign Fibre Jute Bags (1945)
…from Asbestos, Quebec, to J-M's general headquarters, headed "Jute Bags (Foreign Fibre Containers)." The writer forwards a report by Mr. Foley (not in this file) showing that "the situation from a labour and health…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 9, 1949
George K. Foster to A. R. Fisher on a Union Dust Clause in Quebec Arbitration (1949)
…appears to read August 9, 1949, and the arbitration it describes fits the period after the 1949 strike. The memo does not name the Jeffrey Mine; it refers to the companies' contract under arbitration in general.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 10, 1948
Canadian Johns-Manville Mine Division Industrial Hygiene Committee Minutes on Mill Dust Control (1948)
…Hygiene Meeting, Mine Division 7/10/48. "Failure of General Headquarters to approve this appropriation is difficult to understand, in view of the fact that it would reduce dust within the mill about 50%. The Industrial…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · 1939
Johns-Manville Release on the Hospital and Accident Prevention at Asbestos, Quebec (1939)
What it shows The release reasons that because the hospital found less tuberculosis among the workmen than in the general population, "Dust is, therefore, not a serious hazard to health." It names Dr. R. H. Stevenson…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · November 27, 1948
Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to W. A. Young on Asbestos and Silica Hazards at the Toronto Plant (1948)
…"but not for general publication," that men there sometimes developed "rather obstinate cases of pneumonia." He advised taking dust counts so that good counts would help "dispel any rumors which may arise," and suggested telling the…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 15, 1944
Joan Ross, Survey of Female Employees in the Canadian Johns-Manville Textile Department (1944)
…ventilation; (2) fatigue; and (3) higher absentee rate among women in general as opposed to men. Ross notes that the dust situation in the Textile Department is worse than in any other department in the factory…