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  1. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 3, 1941

    Bowers & Rinehart and Vandiver Brown on Joseph Kopicki's Silicosis Claim (1941)

    …J-M wished to settle without litigation. On January 6 Vandiver Brown, J-M's general attorney, replied that he had asked the Manville plant for "complete information concerning Mr. Kopicki as revealed by our records…

  2. Company document · Motley 1000 · May 8, 1968

    C. L. Sheckler to Frank H. Zimmerman on Agreement over the Asbestos-Cement Health Safety Booklet (1968)

    …noted "an apparent difference of opinion" among the council members, said Certain-Teed, General Aniline and Film, and Johns-Manville had tentatively approved the draft, and wrote that unanimous agreement on any publication dealing with health…

  3. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 15, 1968

    C. L. Sheckler to H. M. Ball on the Resale of Used Fiber Bags (1968)

    …L. Sheckler of Johns-Manville's Environmental Control Department to H. M. Ball, the company's general counsel, with a copy to H. M. Jackson. Sheckler reports that many J-M locations were selling empty used…

  4. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · October 1, 1968

    Correspondence on Canadian Johns-Manville's Caution Label for Asbestos Fiber Bags and the British Objections (1968–1969)

    …Hendry, general sales manager of Canadian Johns-Manville's Asbestos Fibre Division in Quebec, told customers that "each bag of chrysotile asbestos fibre shipped by this Company will carry a label" warning that inhaling it "over…

  5. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 3, 1954

    Dr. David T. DuBow and Dr. Kenneth W. Smith on Warning Fibrocel Installers About Perlite (1954)

    …DuBow tells Dr. Smith that it has been suggested that "the general sales force be alerted with respect to the potential health hazards in the use of expanded perlite." Dr. Smith responds (8/16/54) that…

  6. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 7, 1961

    Dr. David T. DuBow, Dr. Kenneth W. Smith and C. H. Grote on Releasing Medical Records to Insurance Companies (1961)

    …the Johns-Manville Corporation," and asked Dr. Kenneth W. Smith whether J-M had a general policy. Smith replied on July 19 that with proper authorization the records could be revealed, but "only when the employee…

  7. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 26, 1959

    Dr. David T. DuBow to M. F. Naylor on Releasing Employees' X-Rays to Their Doctors (1959)

    …L. Sheckler about how the Medical Department should answer treating physicians who asked to see employees' X-rays. DuBow put the question to the medical departments of six companies: General Motors at Linden, New Jersey, Squibb…

  8. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 25, 1954

    Dr. Kenneth W. Smith to A. J. Maahs on a Warning for Ring-Tite Lubricant (1954)

    …lubricant, used with J-M's Ring-Tite pipe coupling. "In general," Smith wrote, "when a toxic hazard associated with one of our products has been established all employees working in the fields of research, production…

  9. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · September 24, 1979

    E. D. Marcucci to J. H. Swensen on Not Labeling Transite Pipe (1979)

    …Swensen of Johns-Manville, reporting on a September 20 meeting with Dennis Markusson, J-M's associate general counsel, about labeling Transite pipe. "Since we are firm in our conviction that installers will not be exposed…

  10. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · February 10, 1969

    E. M. Fenner to All Plant, Mill and Mine Managers on the Membrane Filter Technique (1969)

    …all plant, mill, mine, production and division general managers, announcing that J-M would begin measuring asbestos dust by the membrane filter technique. "The British asbestos industry has used this method for many years," Fenner writes;…

  11. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 28, 1966

    F. J. Solon Jr. to Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Asking for Records on Cancer Among J-M Workers (1966)

    …lung cancer and other forms of cancer among employees at J-M's asbestos mines, mills and asbestos-processing plants has been as low or lower than would be expected among the general population. To date…

  12. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · March 17, 1971

    H. M. Jackson to Dr. G. W. Wright and Dr. T. H. Davison on Dr. Enterline's Retiree Study Findings (1971)

    …Dr. Enterline commented that in the "non-exposure" plants, maintenance and service personnel had a higher incidence of bronchogenic cancer, whereas production personnel had general population equivalent rates. He also said that at the Asbestos, Quebec…

  13. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 18, 1956

    H. M. Jackson to Schilling on the Travelers Dust Survey of the Manville Pipe Department (1956)

    …to Schilling at the Manville plant on a survey of the pipe department in "P" Building made by the Travelers insurance company's laboratory. Jackson writes that the counts "in general" showed adequate control, with exceptions…

  14. 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…

  15. 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…

  16. 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…

  17. 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…

  18. 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…

  19. 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…

  20. 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.