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FILE NAME Quebec Asbestos Mining Association QAMA DATE 1965 June 4 DOC QAMA097 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Minutes General Meeting - Asbestos Textile Institute inutes GENERAL ELTING Fotel IN ATTENDANCE Asbestos Textile Institute June 4 1965 Le Frovence Thetford lines Canada . 3 AMERICAN AGRESTOS 1.W. J.L. G.S. Weber Rainey Fabel J.W. Christenbury m Faaskant D.F. Quealy TEXTILE CORP ASBESTOS CONFORATION G.F. Jenkins F.E. LeClere A.C.S. LTD Ltd. .. J.T. J.D. D.E. FORTER COMPANY Griffis McCluer Childers INC RAYBESTOS ADHATTAN J.A. Brown Jr. L.C. Williams J.P. Wronski N.M. Oliver R.C. Smith INC E.L. Alexander W.W. Oughtred M.P.Carson M.P.Carson A.L. Penhale G.F.A. Orink A.C.S. Ltd. . . J.W. Hawkins TALLIANIC TALLIANIC CLUSKEY FABRICS CO Ted D. McCluskey McCluskey N.C. Pharo . - TURNER & NEWALL LTD . Bernard Lincoln BELL ASBESTOS : ES LTD G.W. Smith U.S. RUBBER CO PARTY Wm.J.W. Smith . R. Dodds lebron - Norman Darr CASSIAR ASBESTOS 1.D. Christian H. Gritzuk CORP D.T. S.J. B.D. J.II. Austin Jr. Feele Jr. Hubbard Wolfsie Dr. BRITISH BALTING & ASBESTOS LTD J.L. Hitchell R. Marson Ontario Research Foundation CADWAL WICKEA RSHAN DWICE KERSR HAN & TAFT T.Jay Flocken Legal Counsel ) JOHNS IANVILLE W.S. Hougli E.A. Schuman W.C. Atkinson C.L. Sheckler Dr. K.W. Smith CORP ~ LAKE ASBESTOS OF QUEBEC LTD F.J. Hessel E.A. Farrell ; , K.W. Nelson ASBESTOS TETILE TETILE INSTITUTE 1.E. Sunbury Exec Secretary SOCIETE AUCHYLE FRANCAISE DU FEROC onsieur Collineau " Decaestecker U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE Dr. L.J. Cralley HANVILLE CO OF CANADA LTD H.W. Hendry PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT 9023.0 9023.0 9023.0 AQ Canadian Manville Karl V. Lindell Chairman Co. Ltd. 1.0.Eby Vice Pres Genl.Jeffrey Johns lle R. Gagnon Lake Asbestos of Quebec Ltd. L. Fiuze Mine l'gr Lake Asbestos of Quebec Ltd. .. l'essel President Lake Asbestos of Quebec Ltd. A.L. Penhale Chairman & Fresident Asbestos Corporation Ltd. G.F. Jenkins Director Asbestos Corporation Ltd. Co.Ltd Co.Ltd 10102 001593 Dinutes - General Meeting - cont qued Guests 1 2 Mines L. ontpetit Manager Micolet Asbestos Mines Ivan Sabourin Q.C. Montreal Ltd. . 5 . 4% re Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd. J.A.D. Marcotte Corporation J.A.D. Marcotte Terrill Terrill Director gr Asbestos Corporation Corporation Ltd. Canadian Mines Dr. R.J. Terrill gr Ettl F.P. Hodgson Manager Flintkote Mines . 1. Lachance .A.i.A .A.i.A Dust Engineer Thetford oo Corporation ace F Industrial - _ Clinic R.S. Coleman Manager National Asbestos lines Ltd. Dr. L.J. Cralley U.S. Public Health Service Cincinnati Chio Dr York Dr.K.WW.olSfms itihe lMeeddiiccalalDDiirreeccttoo rr HUanintvedibSltaeteHansvible RCuobrbpe.r CNoe.w , New YoNA.srYb..kco. Nr.M.L.Barr Nr.M.L.Barr Director Bell Asbestos lines Sales Atlas Asb.co. Dr. R. Marson Director Ontario Research Foundation Asst to the Genl gr Cassiar Asbestos Corp. ires Ltd. N. Gritzuk Dr. Paul Cartier Thetford Industrial Clinic Thetford . Geo S. Fabel American Asbestos Textile Corp A. Collineau Societe Anonyme to " Francaise Du Ferodo " ... 11 1. Decaestecker In addition to the above guests we ladies accompany their husbands to were privileged our luncheon on to have Friday thir ty Jure am eee Minutes of the Meeting --- e meeting was called to order by President J.A. Brown Jr. 1. The meeting for the opportunity of holding this who expressed our appreciation and thanked our hosts Asbestos Cornora- meeting in Thetford Mines lines Limited Canadian lanville Co. tion Ltd Dell Asbestos Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Limited and Lake Asbestos of Que- and meticulous handling Ltd bec Limited for their wonderful hospitality miners Committee of the many details incairdreanntgeamlentots tcheonsisted of Tih.eF. Carson Asbestos who handled the local Co Roland Gagnon Lake M.W. Hendry of Can llanville Corn Smith of Bell Asbestos Fines representing Asbestos of Quebec Wm.J.W. ant P.Parker P.Parker Smith Dell Asbestos .ines who Cassiar Asbestos Corp. Corp. To all of these gentlemen we exten was Chairman of the committee thanks for a job that was exceedingly well done of guests who individual then introduced a number Tresident Brown which he explained that due were attending this meeting following before noontine in or- the fact that some of the ren had to leave the usual agen di to der to catch a midafternoon flight out of iontreal several guest speakers had been reversed to enable them to hear our AQ was ir ... Messel Tresident Tresident of Lake Asbestos ... 2. Our first sneaker welcomed the members of A.T.I. with these re- Limited who of A.T.I. Guests is a pleas- of Quebec marks President Brown lembers > to welcome you to behalf of the Canadian Asbestos iners how ure on its made mountains and to tell you Thetford Thetford asbestos country with to have you hold your meeting in pleased and honoured we are . lines not been very active ^ in ... ^ have followed its 2 fl fine and comprehensive While cIloshealve y through the reading of the I have also .- very Secretary so ably ruts together ports which your work which your technical committ whos whos lowed closely the cooperative Asbestos ining Association have been doing with the Quebec 10/93 001594 Minutes - General Meeting ' continued - 3 is much appreciated and mutually beneficial I know the work a 27 complexity such complexity of as yours is a diff tult one due due to wide range and problems that have to be dealt with wish con- ef ective effective way gratulate your association in the splendid and con- way that it Conducts its affairs and comes with your industry problems How- from As vet there is no shortage of Group 3 spinning fibres the mine- in Canada as I can still see plenty of takers around How- were ever there are indications of possible shortages in some of the bestos cement grades At one time the spinning fibre grades the mainstay of the asbestos producing industry but this has now been supplanted by the asbestos cement fibre grades together with together together with exranded uses of the shorter fibres During 1964 the Canadian Asbestos producing industry employed over over asbestos 6000 reorle and exported approximately 1,335,000 tons of with an annominate gross value of 155,000,000 of this total - : f toal total spinning 34,677 tons were crude and grides with approximate an total total total total value of 14,000,000 The U.S.A. market consumed approximately 14,600 tons of crudes and spinning fibres with a value of approxa- mately 6,400,000 and this has remained rather constant for the past 3 or 4 years The only other large sumpliers of spinning fires are are Russia and Rhodesia The figures we obtained during our visit Russia would indicate approximately 20 to 25 thousand tons of spin- ning fibres out still fibrf es iCbare ns ada The cooperative of an estimated total production of 1,600,000 ons holds its dominant position as supplier of textile work that is being carried on for improved fibre testing thods and standards should lead to a better understanduindernstangding between the producing and consuming asbestos industries Mr. Sabourin as attorney for ... will tell you something of the work that is being considered with respect to the health of the workers in our industry I feel there should be room for cooperative work between the A.T.I. I hope your visit among will result in a better and N.A A us will be a most hapry and understanding of our mutual pleasant one and reoblems and I know the Local Committees of A.T.I. and the Canadian Asbestos Niners have done a splendid job in making your stay amongst us both hapny and memorable AQ 3. President Brown then introduced Dr. Kenneth W. Smith Medical Medical Corra Director of lanville ty indeed the necessity of the ation who stressed the desirabili ashestos industry telling the truth about the health of its employees and giving meaningful reports as to company writers on experience He nointed out called asbestosis have that some of the more prolific relatively little background of actual cases on which to base their theories or conclusions as compared with our collective and also individual company experience over many years time Dr. Smith urged full cooperation on the rart of various companies to open their records and full cooperation with the work of the U.S. Public Health Service lie stated that the zen- eral overall health of lanville longtime employees compared favorably with industry in general randing membershin in their 25 year and pointed to the steadily exclub as evidence of this fact fact ... es 4. President Brown then introduced Mr. Karl V. Lindell Chairman Canadian Fanville Co. Ltd. who expressed his pleasure at 17 ing the opportunity to attend this meeting said that he woul like to have ir Ivan Sabourin .C attorney for the ... us about the work that has been done in past years to protetc 7= 10/93 001595 anet2S- General eing- eing- tole. Ul ae health of asbestos workers and about newly formed ... program for Research Research the outline Research outline outline planned for the related to the Study of of ReRsepspiirraattoorryy DDiisseeaasseess as Research related Wining to Chrysotile PathologPathoylogy Chrysotile foforr Some of the very interesting points brought out Chrysotile Asbestos In the year 1935 the mining industry started raying Mr. Sabourin weit at regular intervals in order to safeguard their raying their employ dust counting and for Pitals in Canada that of respiratory diseases ray procedures Also had cocmopmiplielded background background of respiratory diseases to compare methods worked with those in expere ience xep xpere iencr e ience in the fo hot field field Paid tribute pointing out reports ann reports Dr. Grainger of Cleveland their Dr. Cartier had the Thetford to Dr. Paul Cartier that Dr. Cartier on asbestosis over of Thetford had contributed a span of many Industrial Industrial Clinic many valuable papers years . Also papers Ltd. of Conadian lanville Co. Detroit that , Dr. George Wright , and Dr. Dr. A.J. A.J. VoVrowrawladld of Detroit deserved much cred of for their work and contributions to the increasing fund increasing general general general knowledge regarding asbestosis asbestosis Stressed that the mining industries require their doctors to research with the work being done by others on pneumoconiosis the to attend meetings both here and abroad and participate in keen us and dis- that the casions at those meetings He stated with great emphasis bioloignictahle elsewhere knowledge possessed by the industry's doctors on the of- fects of chrysotile asbestos was not surpassed doctors world Mentioned that contacts have been made with in Rus- Rus- sia East Germany Finland Italy England and other countries Expressed his belief that cancer is not necessarily involved due to association with asbestos Pointed nut that the A.l .A ariich that are only about two weeks ago was not convincing - only informa tive - indicates much further work is needed - regrets adverse oub- licity that results from such articles : ~ Expressed the opinion that while the welfare of the worker should be be the responsibility of management we need to know more about the worker's environment after he leaves the plant Explained that the Q.A.l'.A program is still in the formative staze They seek alliance with some university such as McGill for staze so that authoritative background for publicity can be mad The re geam will start modestly with competent men coming into it - men With a wast background of actual experience They recognize the need to consolidate experiences and also having traveled widely in other countries to a horge that they find well equipped research units are usually located adjacent hospital Frequently the worker has a conditing that is not attributable to association with asbestos dis- covered through cooperation with the hospital staff 1 conclusion Mr. Sabourin expressed the thought that it would be wonderful if the Asbestos Textile Institute could join their efforts to the Q.A.li.A. program for the benefit of all - depiored the stols- tion of efforts and poor liaison between research laboratories and research units Suggested that a council as a governing body might be the answer and result in more rapid progress 5. The next speaker was Dr. L.J. Cralley the U.S. Public Health Service who for the past several years has been supervising the ex- tensive Environmental Study of asbestos employees in textile plants in the U.S.A. Dr. Cralley said that the Study was going well and fine cooperation enced The U.S. from both management and Public Health Service is employees has now extending been exteri- their ec: into other asbestos industries such as asbestos etc. Fe 5 that the results to date certainly justify the program and its :-. ther mansion LAQ 10/93 001596 er, % 0003335 0003335 00335 we Minutes - General Meeting continued - 5 In other areas of activity the Conference Service the recent American Industrial U.S.P.H. Service presented a paner at HousCtoonmDrmaiftt tHeeTeaelxtFahisnJduFininedninggsAsir report summarized their study experience in five plants which two papers were distributed to our Air Hygiene Hygiene copies of The first paper by Jeremiah B. Lynch of the Dept. of 3r3rdd tion and Welfare titled Asbestos Study - Procedure and and the second paper titled Relationship of Impinger Counts Fibre Concentration by Membrane Filters in Asbestos Textile Pants Pants Both of these papers are covered more fully in the of our Air Hygiene & Mfg Committee which is attached to these minutes Dr. Cralley plans to speak at Seminars frequently in the future such as University of Texas insurance companies etc. Mentioned Mentioned that since the conference on Biological Effects of Asbestos held in New York last October the New York Academy of Sciences has now conclu- established sion of his a Division of Environmental Sciences At talk Dr. Cralley answered several questions the conclu- from the audience 6 President Brown then asked Mr. N.W. Hendry General Sales ; anager for Canadian Manville Asbestos Limited to report for the Fibre Committee Mr. Hendry stated that inventories of spinning fibre are ample but substantially below the levels of one year ago Demand for Group 3 fibres remained relatively flat in 1964 in most countries of the world with the exception of the U.S. and Eurone The increase in demand in the latter area was considerably greater than in the U.S. Business conditions in Japan are fair Italy poor Germany fair United Kingdom good and the remainder of Europe relatively good in the asbestos textile and asbestos fields It is expected however that the second half of 1965 will show an improvement improvement over the first half in those areas of the world in which business @ndi tions have been below average of The average reduction in the -200 mesh McNett content spinning fibres from 1953 to 1965 is in the order of 50 - 75 per cent New asbestos fibre production projected from new properties in Canada includes the Clinton Creek property of Cassiar in 1968 Asbestos Hill of Asbestos Corner ation in 1970 and the possible Reeves pronerty of J.H. in Northern Ontario This new production will supply the asbestos market principally Russian production in 1964 at 1,600,000 tons exceeded that of Canada for the first time and hishis trend is expected to continue in the forward years LAQ 7. Mr. P.Jay Flocken our Legal Counsel on being introduced by Fresident Brown gave an interesting talk on the subject of Reci- procity and Antitrust Law Enforcement in Relation to Reciprocity A brief summary of his remarks follows The subject of reciprocity is receiving renewed interest from antitrust enforcement agencies Reciprocity generally is the practice whereby companies make concess- ions to one another in order to promote their own business interest The most common form of reciprocity is reciprocal buying Although several recent merger cases which in part involved attacks on recip rocal buying practices no court has yet held nor has the government yet charged that such practices are illegal in and of themselves Except for one merger case still pending in the courts no government government antitrust suit has challenged reciprocal practices as illegal and unreasonable restraints of trade or anticompetitive practices without also attacking some other conduct While it is still an open question therefore whether such practices may be illegal without 10/93 001597 Minutes - General Meeting ' cont, oe ue . evidence of other anticompetitive conduct it seems seems likely that in the near future reciprocity will be made the sole consideration ment antitrust suit This discussion included the FTC recent decision by the United States Supreme Court upholding Corporation ruling against the acquisition by Consolidated Foods Corporation Gentry Inc. Other merger cases discussed included the .. locomotive case the General Dynamics Corporation case the govern FTC Diese Ingersoll Ingersoll Rand Company Ltd. Ltd. case . case and the Reynolds Tobacco Company & Ingersoll , 8. The Report of Funds was presented by E.A. Schuman , Treasurer Treasurer andand is attached to these minutes 9. It was moved by S.J. Peele Jr. that the reading of minutes of the last meeting be omitted - seconded by E.L. Alexander - so voted 10. The Committee Reports attached to these minutes Fibre Testing Committee as this meeting as made by their respective chairmen are J.P. Wronski gave the report for the its chairman I. Barnett could not attend 11. President Brown welcomed J.L. Mitchell as a representative of British Belting & Asbestos Ltd. stating that were greatly pleased that he would be in regular attendance at our meetings 12. President Brown announced that our next meeting would be held on the 7th and 8th of October arrival on the 6th and tentative location was flotel Hershey Hershey Penna Subsequent to the meet- ing it was found that the Hotel Hershey could not accommodate our meeting on those particular dates and it has been decided to hold the October meeting at The II Buck Hill Falls Penna October 6-8th The III is a famous hostelry delightfully located in the scenic Pocono Mountains It should be an ideal time of year to be there with autumn foliage at its height Located 100 miles from either New York or Philadelphia it may be reached by Erie awanna train to Cresco 3 miles to INN Limousine meets all trains By air there is commercial service to Scranton Barre or Allen- Bethlehem Airports Private or chartered planes my land at Mount Pocono Airpart Dy car from New York or Philadelphia is a three hour drive over excellent roads The INH operates on the Amer- ican Plan and the daily rates including all meals is Double Room 19- per person Single Room 20- per person single occupancy of double room 25 per person SO -- MARK YOUR CALENDAR - The _INNA Buck Hill Falls Pa October 6th to 8th --- and bring your WIFE 13. President Brown paid tribute to A.J. Scanlan Treasurer of the Institute in 1953 and 1954 and Vice President in 1959-1960 who passed away on February 13 1965. President Brown stated that re had sent a letter of sympathy to Mrs. Scanlan at direction of the Board of from her Governors in reply of the Institute and had received a nice letter He then asked the members to observe a moment of silence in memory of Ank Scanian LAQ 001598 10/93 VE 0003337 Minutes - General Meeting - continued ~ 7o 14. President Brown reported that Jack Bettes of Raybestos- Manhattan was unable to attend this meeting due to the fact that he was not yet fully recovered from a recent major operation however he is now back at his desk on a part basis Jack always a staunch supporter of probably hasn't missed a meeting in the last twenty years and we felt his absence most keenly His many friends in the Institute wish him a speedy return to complete good health , 15. The meeting then adjourned for luncheon to which the wives had been invited and it proved a most enjoyable affair 16 Adjournment of the meeting followed luncheon Respectfully submitted See Secretary THE te - THE ; Sunbury 2.E. - LAQ WV 10/93 001599 yin oe SY nee 000313 000313