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*/ . T '/ - .v - v i -::: Wm1 *v' A':%:*fj ' ~;>> ` V'.- % g**. * -v`* .- ..-v .:*'. n* V-.* i'-V- ' -'.t-V. 'i .-M.- , ^ j. ** ' GENERAL HEADQUARTERS - . January 25, 1940 r V. -r .->/.. .*- ' <*... ,\ VA i^\ The following quotation'from a report by Mr. Andrews Fletcher, Fice-President pABt. Joseph Jeed Company,may be of' Interest to'joarr',-^-,;-> ^4^*7 *f ; #'v ^ 1 strongly urge that progressive com- ^sV . panics currently obtain information as to 'dust, '.fumes, - ./ v eto., under prevailing working conditions. It Is even >. -advisable to have this data prepared by -and recognised authority in the medical a disinterested or engineering "Vi- 1 ' .- 17 V.. field of industrial health, because ylt the information ..'V ^v.*. ,, . yr ? is secured by the company1s own employees, it la Often r disregardedby Compensation Commit teeaor the Courts . ^ .Vff " on the. basis that it; Is prejudiced, .just as Is often the case when the data has been obtained by so-called '^^^'^^"^^etperts*,'after-:'cases'have been'filed, -and when it is ..W'/ necessary to prove that the conditions then found were '^Vi?/ ' .X*. the same as those prevailing before or at'the''.tine of '' i "Xt;' v ,, itnheaanlleexgceedll^eanctcpidoesnitt*i.o?n'.TtoheuinldrerHtaykgeientheeFtoduinadinsttioenr-is*2A; / >*; *?j-";:estedf examination*, .and If harmful conditions arp v-; "v>.` ifoxm&j to advise what oorrective steps should be &'ryMr;` Fletcher id one of the' trustees oflirHyglene' . "'Foundation and his Company has had considerable experience in - # Missouri M&-the Silicosis *raoketa* .*-- if:Ikight add'ithai-there is' sonethihg In 'itoat he Says ';;t: about the weight% or lack of weight -- given to .the testimony of technicians regularly ip tike smiploy of the fcoapany. d survey 1>y v;.' f,i- : ' : the Foundation of. some of. enr worst, spots `might well be worth .