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BOARD O* DIRECTORS MEETING New York, N. Y. January 24, 1939 A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Lead industries Association was held on Tuesday, January 24, 1939, at 12:30 P.M., at the Down Town Association, New York, N. Y. Present Representing Clinton H. Crane, Chairman St. Joseph Lead Company K. c. Brownell American ^melting & refining Co. E. A. Behr American Smelting Sc defining Co. Clarence Glass Anaconda Sales Co. A. E. Bendelari Eagle-Picher Lead Co. F. W. Rockwell National Lead Co. Harold Rowe National Lead Co. I. H. Cornell St. Joseph Lead Co. F. F. Colcord United States Smelting defining & Mining '-o. Inc. F. E. Wormser, Secretary-Treasurer The meeting was called to order with Mr. Clinton H. Crane in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting of May 3, 1938 were approved. Report of the Secretary and Treasurer The report of the Secretary and Treasurer was approved with the following additions to the report submitted to tne directors and at tached as Exhibit "A". 1. Lumber f'roducts-Better Paint Campaign - Budget for the Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign for 1939 was $25,000.00. 2 Plumbing Promotion Program - Budget for the program for 1939 was as follows: Salaries $9,000 Traveling Expenses 8,000 Printing 500 Mailing 500 "Plumbers' Forum" 6,600 Association Dues 150 Entertainment 500 Conventions 3s Exhibits 1,250 Advertising 8,000 Seal of Approval In spections Miscellaneous 1,000 500 $36,000 Drawn from Balance 4.000 To Be Subscribed $32,000 To Be Subscribed by Pacific Coast Members 2.400 Board of Directors Meeting -- January 24, 1929 i o'Z Treasurer's Report - Distribution of cash on hand and in bank, January 1, 1959: Ordinary Petty Cash Plumbing Promotion rund Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign Sheet Lead Promotion Fund $13,285.44 100.OC 9,043.43 3,016.97 5.002.00 TOTAL $28,447.39 Resignation - Cerro ae Pasco Copper Corporation The resignation of the Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation as an associate member of the Lead Industries association was accepted. Biochemical Research Foundation Records A letter from Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman of the Biochemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute requesting the Lead Industries association to become custodian of its lead poisoning records was read as follows: "During the last thirty years I have collected a con siderable amount of material, all more or less valu able, on the subject of lead poisoning and related matters. It induces some books of rare value and material representing my own work on lead poisoning statistics and their interpretation. I would like to present this entire material to your organization as the best place for its permanent preservation and utilisation. I therefore trust that you will accept this gift and let me know when you wish to have it shipped to you. I retain only my annual report for the National Lead Company for 1937 as a guide in the making up of my report for the current year. "Anticipating the favor of a prompt reply, I remain, Sincerely yours, Signed: F. L. Hoffman" Whereupon it was RESOLVED THAT the Board of Directors of the Lead Industries Association expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Biochemical Research Foundation of the.Franklin Institute, and to Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, for making the Lead Industries Associa tion custodian of its valuable records on lead poisoning. It WAS FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary be authorized to pre serve these records and to permit access to tnem to any of the public who may be interested in the documents and data. LI A00210 o S/ ` Board of Directors Meeting -3- January 24, 1939 Department of Commerce Inquiry on Motion Picture Film on Lead Industry The Board considered an inquiry from Mr. Frank R. Wilson, Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce, as to whether the lead in dustry desired to prepare a motion picture film on its industry, as per Exhibit "B" attached. It was the unanimous feeling of the Board that the Lead Indus tries snould not participate in tnis program. Action of Plumbing Promotion Group- Establishing a Fee for Use of Seal of Approval on Lead Plumbing Goods '^The action of the Plumbing Promotion Group establishing a nominal charge for the use of the Seal of Approval of the Lead Industries Association, as per the following resolution, was presented to the Board for ratification: "It was regularly moved, seconded and carried to charge all Seal of Approval licensees a nominal fee of $25.00 per year for use of tne Seal of Approval under each li cense, that is, (1) lead pipe, (2) lead traps and bends, and calking lead, to nelp defray the expense of in spections, this fee to be credited against contributions to the Plumbing Promotion Program of each licensee sup porting this program." It was the sense of the meeting that rather than take action at this time, the subject be considered at a later meeting when a full re port would be available on the response to this action of the Plumbing Promotion group. The Board preferred to encourage tne wide use of the Seal of Approval by all manufacturers of lead plumbing goods embraced by the license agreements rather than establish a fee for its use. The Secretary was requested to endeavor to persuade as much volun tary support for the Seal of Approval program as possible. Budget The Secretary presented a record of the budget and the actual expenditures for the year 1938, as per Exhibit "A" attached. ,, After discussion it was regularly moved, seconded and carried that a budget totalling $50,000 be adopted for 1939, as follows: LI A00211 A fX' Board of Directors Meeting -4- Budget - 1959 Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment Salaries Rent ana Light Telepnone and Telegraph Books and Subscriptions "Lead" (publishing expenses. including mailing, etc.) Printing Mailing illustration Traveling expenses Medical Research Technical Research Social Security Taxes office Expense Miscellaneous Office Supplies association Dues Entertainment and Lunches Total *Part of tnis to be charged to white leaa promotion. Meeting adjourned at 2:20 P.M. January 24, 1939 $500 26,000 5,000* 900 300 6,0C0 1,000 1,000 300 2,000 2,500 1,000 1,200 1,200 800 150 150 $50,000 1 A 0 02 12 * v-' O' Kxhibit rAn Board of Directors Meeting January 24, 1939 REPORT SUMMARIZING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION FOR 1938 The Lead Industries Association became ten years old on November 28, 1938. 1. Membership - Membership In the Association consists of 56 companies, one resignation having been received during the year. 2. Statistics - Compilation and publication of our statis tical reports has proceeded without change. At times special efforts are made to procure information valuable in offsetting attacks on our industry. For example, recently we made a survey of the tonnage of lead sold in the New York Metropolitan area, planning to employ the data in defending the use of lead by the plumbers' examining board. It so happened that certain plumbers, unable to wipe joints, have protested the inclusion of lead wiping as part of the examination for a plumber's license, maintaining that lead was no longer used for plumbing in New York City. In view of the reluctance of some of our smaller members ' to provide current statistical information on their manufactured products, it is interesting to note the recent recommendation of the Federal Trade Commission for the establishment of a Bureau of Industrial Economics to gather trade statistics because, "trade association activity in thi6 general direction had frequently failed, or proved ineffective, because there was no obligation on the individual member of a particular in dustry to make the necessary reports". 3. Legislation (a) Tariff - The Association prepared briefs which were presented to the Committee for Reciprocity Information in Washington on the trade treaty negotiations with the United Kingdom and Canada, cover ing various lead items. Copies of the briefs were distributed to all members of the Association. In addition, visits were made to Washington to acquaint representatives and officials of the Government with our position and interest in these Important treaties. I am pleased to report that the result of the trade negotiations with the United Kingdom and Canada recently announced show only a small cut in the tariff on lead pianents - red lead and litharge, bottle caps and collapsible tubes with the major portion of our tariff protection intact. (b) Trade Association Survey - We complied with a request of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce for the Temporary National Economic Committee by furnishing the Committee with information about the \ Lead Industries Association, as outlined in its questionnaire. After receiving the approval of all members of the Executive Conmittee, the Questionnaire was mailed to Washington. LIAC0213 N 581.01 2- - Report STxxnarizing the Activities of the Lead Industries association for 1938. (c) Arny Industrial College - Hie Secretary was recently invited to appear before a group of officers of the Army Industrial Col lege who were making a survey of the lead industry in connection with the industrial mobilization plans of the Army. The meeting was informal and the Director of the school personally thankBd the Secretary for the help given the College. 4. Litharge Meeting - Members producing litharee met at the Association's office on June 29th to discuss methods for preserving the mar ket for litharge in the enameling field, an outlet affected seriously by competition from leadles6 enamels. The Lead Industries Association will endeavor to procure some fundamental data to guide the producers in de veloping their plans further. . Medical Research - The Association contributed $2,000 to continue Dr. a u o 's research on lead at Harvard Medical School. In ad dition Dr. Fairhall was compensated for the investigation he made on behalf of the tin, lead and milk industries to ascertain the hazard in connection with the use of solder in sealing evaporated milk cans. Tou will recall that lead was given a clean bill of health in this investi gation. (a) Biochemical Research Foundation Records - The Bio chemical Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute has been collect ing data on lead poisoning for many years, under the direction of Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman. On June 6th they requested us to be custodian of these valuable records. Upon consultation with the President, this pro posal was accepted with thanks and the documents are now in our possess ion. Dr.Hoffman was one of the first to call attention to the dwindling importance of the lead poisoning hazard. He is considered an authority on the subject. (b) Safety Conference - Members were sounded out as to the possibility of holding, sometime in the future, another health and safety conference. Plans have not yet been drawn for such a gathering, 6. Publications - The pibllcation of our magazine, LEAD, has continued without interruption and Its circulation has been maintained at 24,000. PUJM3URS' FORUM increases steadily and is now 22,000. LEAD continues to carry original items of interest, particularly to persons specifying various lead products. Should the Board of Directors ever deem it desirable, both publications, LEAD and PLUMBERS' FORUM can be made in whole or in part self-sustaining through the acceptance of ad vert! sing. Plumbing Promotion Program - A detailed review of the plumbing field work of the Lead Industries Association was provided each subscriber to thiB special program. (a) Standards - Standards which have been adopted for (1) lead pipe, traps end bends, and (2) calking lead have been favor- LIA00214 A x. 0 -3- Report Sunmarlzing the Activities of the Lead Industries Association for 1938. ably received and copied by technical organizations and municipalities for inclusion in plumbing codes. The program continues to be influential in seeing that lead is given proper consideration in city and state plumbing codes through the United States. Definite benefits accruing to the lead plumbing goods industry over the past few years are apparent, as follows: Plumbing Promotion Program Summary of certain tangible benefits accruing to the lead plumbing goods industry 1. New plumbing code amendments or regulations now require lead for plumbing or water distribution in the following localities: State of Pa. (all cities and towns except Philadelphia) State of Mass. (removed 5 ft . limitation on lead) 3uffalo, N.T. (passed by 3d. of Examiners, up to Bd. of Health) Bakersfield, Gal., and other Kern County towns Philadelphia, Pa. Rockford, 111. Phillipsburg, N.J. Aurora, 111. Bridgeton, N.J. E. St. Louis, 111. Pleasantville, N.T. Peoria, 111. Hartford, Conn. Moline, 111. Waterbury, Conn. . Cedar Rapids, la. Taunton, Mass. Springfield, Mo. Columbia, S. C. Salina, Kansas Atlanta, Ga. Wichita, Kansas Jacksonville, Fla. Lansing, Mich. St. Petersburg, Fla, Wausau, fis. Orlando, Fla. Oklahoma City, Okla. Austin, Tex. Omaha, Neb. San Antonio, Tex. Boise, Idaho Waco, Tex. Denver, Colo. Wichita Palls, Tax. It must be remembered that adoption of laws, as above, is slow work, but once adopted make a relatively permanent requirement of lead. In many cities we have successfully opposed ordinance or regulation revisions which would have reduced or eliminated the use of lead. We have pre vented elimination of lead work from examinations for plum bers' licenses in New fork ml other cities, and have in troduced license examinations with a lead, work requirement in many places where no examinations for lead work ware formerly required. 2. Impartial statements by impartial sources indicate the success of this work. The following is the title of an article appearing in "Domestic Engineering", leading plumb ing trade paper, last year:"L1ADW0RI....Present trend to wards revision of plumbing codes has in many cases in creased importance of leadwork", LIA00215 , -4- Report Sunmarixing the Activities of the Lead Industries Association for 1938. 3. The late Ur. Lester Wilson, salj s neurer of the metal divi sion of the National Lead Co., recently stated that sales of lead pltunbing goods were the only products of his department that had held up during the recent recession. In the minutes of the last meeting of the pltmbing promotion group will he found the favorable views of the manufacturing members to the work so far. They are the only ones able to judge the work on actual sales. 4. We have worked closely with the Federal Committee oh Appren tice Training to establish classes teaching lead work to plumbing apprentices and journeymen in order to insure an adequate future supply of mechanics who can install lead, and have been thanked by Mr. Patterson, executive secretary of that committee, for our work. Among others we have pro moted establishment of classes in; St. Paul, !<inn. Chicago, 111. Phoenix, Arix. Youngstown, Ohio Wilkes-3arre, Pa. San Francisco, Cal. Pittsburgh, Pa. 5. We are preparing the lead section for the new Standard Text on Plumbing to be published by the National Association of Master Plumbers. If this section were not properly presen ted it would militate against the use of lead because fewer mechanics would be able to learn the installation of lead properly. 6. We have adopted standards which have improved the quality of lead plumbing goods, thus preventing future failures which would cause the use of lead to be discontinued. Our standard for calking lead has been adopted by New York City and by the American Water Works Association, and our standard for lead pipe will probably be adopted by the same city within a few weeks. Many other cities are adopting these standards, and many plumbers are using only materials stamped with our Seal of Approval now. 9. Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign - A detailed review of the work of the campaign was provided each subscriber to this special pro gram. A summary, as follows, of the definite results attributable to this campaign may be helpful: Ltpber Products-Better Paint Campaign Sunmary of certain tangible benefits accruing to the white lead industry. a. All the principal producers of soft and hard lumber in the United States, such as redwood, cypress, cedar, pine and others, specify white lead or high-grade prepared paint which contains white lead. At their own expense, estimated at W6,000 per year, they print and distribute painting instruction leaflets (2,000,000 copies). LI A00216 l Report Summarising the Activities of the Lead - 5 Industries Association for 1938. b. The Douglas Pir Plywood Association recoemends the use of white lead exclusively. It has printed 40,000 leaf lets, in color, at a cost of $2,000 and distributed them to every architect in the United States, as well as others. They have also donated two trailers to our campaign at a cost of $1500. c. Ole Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, representing 93 per cent of the industry, recognizes white lead in oil exclusively in its advertising and features ifcite lead in oil in its Certigrade model homes. Ten of its field men promote the use of white lead in connection with their own activities through motion pictures, without cost to us. d. The Southern Pine Association features white lead in its architectural and engineering manual. e. Aluminum priming haB been eliminated from the literature of the regional lumber associations. f. Over 20,000 retail lusher yards are giving us cooperation in selling only first quality paint and dispensing with the sale of cheap paint. g. White lead has been placed in several thousand lumber yards that never handled it before. Although we have no definite figures, our ifcite lead producing members tall us that their sales to lumber yards have increased substantially. h. A. prominent prepared paint company in Milwaukee, as a result of the Campaign, is producing a 100 per cent white lead con tent prepared paint, white and in five colors, and in gallon and half-gallon cans, i. &>me paint companies have increased the lead content of their paint. The Paraffine Companies in San Prancisco, one of the largest paint manufacturers in the United States, which viciously attacked #ilte lead for years and turned out a leadless product, now carries 60 per cent white lead in its outside paint. j. I believe the Influence of the lumber industry was ace of the reasons why the Wat ional Paint, Tarnish and Lacquer Association has recently passed a resolution advocating the printing of paint formulas on the containers of pre pared paints. k. The Western Pine Association, at the San Prancisco Pair, will paint its model home inside and out with white lead and publicise this specification. LJ400i 7 -6- Report Summarizing the Activities of the Lead Industries Association for 1938 l. The sash and door manufacturers are preparing to spend $18,000 next year to print 20,000,000 labels to be af fixed to nearly all the sash and doors in the United States, featuring the use of white lead and, high-grade prepared paint. m. Several agricultural extention services of universities are revising their farm manuals and recommending shite lead in the text. n. If the campaign continues in 1939 on the same basis as in 1938 the lumber industry's expenditures in coopera tion with the campaign will more than match our own. Similar results have accrued to manufacturers of high-grade pre pared paint and as the highest grade prepared paints contain lead, the white lead industry has profited in that direction also, 10. White Lead Promotion Program - Plans are being perfected for the establishment of a program which it is believed will preserve and increase the market for shite lead, the most important outlet for the miner today. A fund of $250,000 a year, for a period of three years, is to be raised among mining, smelting and refining, and manufacturing companies, with the mining and smelting and refining companies together furnishing 60 per cent of the appropriation and the white lead companies subscribing 40 per cent. Mining companies in the west are in agreement with the ob jectives of this program and the plan is to have it under way to take ad vantage of the spring painting season. Respdbthilly submitted. Secretary. LIA0021g I LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Treasurer'6 Report January 1 to December 31. 1938 Cash on Hand and in Bank, RECEIPTS Membership Subscriptions: Ordinary Fund Less refund on Members' 1937 over-assessment January 1, 1938 $40,429.25 378.00 Plumbing Promotion Fund Lumber Products-3ettar Paint Campaign Fund Sale of Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign Trailer TOTAL RECEIPTS $40,051.25 29,355.00 25,721.00 350.00 DISBURSEMENTS ORDINARY FUND Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment Salaries Rent and Light Social Security Taxes SI,577.24 Less: Taxes Accrued 12-31-38 &53,25 Office Supplies Miscellaneous Traveling Expenses Association Dues Entertainment and Lunches Telephone and Telegraph Books and Subscriptions Printing Mailing ** "Lead" Illustration Medical Research PLUMBING PROMOTION FUND Salaries Traveling Expenses Printing Mai ling ** "Plumbers' Forum" Association Dues Entertainment and Lunches *** Conventions and Exhibits Advertising Ml scellaneouB Seal of Approval Inspections Advance TOTAL $ 74.82 25,790.54 2,917.18 722.99 574.85 691.94 992.89 147.75 132.34 553.18 255.41 924.98 880.75 5,755.86 246.46 2.10Q.T0 7,475.00 7,489.91 128.44 220.68 5,002.71 227.00 487.40 3,206.87 6,208.43 323.80 55.92 100.00 $30,722 .95* 95,477.25 $126,200.20 42,762.94 30,926.16 LIA00219 Treasurer's Report (Continued) January 1 to Dec. 31, 1938 Disbursements Continued LUMBER P30DDCTSB?PTER Pal ST CAMPAIGN fUlTD Salaries Traveling Expenses Printing Mailing Entertainment and lunches *** Conventions and Exhibits Mi see1lanecus $10,666.55 8,675.27 170.35 271.49 440.11 2,231.78 844.96 Unemployment Insurance Accrued-January 1, 1938 TOTAL d is b u r s e men t s Cash on Hand and in Bank, January 1, 1939 TOTAL 23,300.51 762.70 *97,752.31 28.447.89 $126,200.20 Foot-notes; * $3,002 of this amount earmarked for Sheet Lead Promotion. ** Includes editing, printing, mailing and miscellaneous expenses. *** Includes expenses incurred at convent! one and exhibits, excluding field representatives' expenses. The following subscriptions were outstanding as of December 31, 1938, and are not included in the receipts above: Ordinary Pund $350.00 Plumbing Promotion Pund 840.00 LIA0022C 1v BUDGET WORE SHEET Approved Budget 1938 Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment $ 500 Salaries 25,000 Rent and Light 3,000 Telephone and Telegraph 900 Books and Subscriptions 250 "Lead" (Publishing expenses, including mailing etc.) Printing Mailing Ulus tration (( ( 6,500 ( ( 5,000 ( ( 750 Traveling Expenses 1,500 Medical Research 2,000 Technical Research 1,500 Social Security Taxes 1,200 Office Expense Miscellaneous Office Supplies Association Dues Entertainment and Lunches ( 1,900 ( (( (( (- TOTAL $50,000 Expenditures ____ 1558____ $ 74.62 25,790.54 2,917.18 553.18 255.41 ( 5,755.86 ( ( 924.98 ( ( 880.75 ( ( 246.46 992.89 2,100.00 - 723.99 ( 691.94 < ( 574.85 ( ( 147.75 ( ( 132.34 142,762.94 Proposed Budget 1939 L I Ao02?1 r COPY Ixhibit '3" Board of Dlrrc'ors Meeting DEPARTMENT o f c o mmer c e January .14, 1939 Office of the Secretary Washington September 19, 1938. Mr. F. E. Worm8er, Secretary Lead Industries Association 420 Lexington Avenue New York, N. Y. Dear Hr. Wormser: The Department of Commerce has been asked to sponsor and provide national distribution for a series of talking pictures dramatizing the aims, pro cesses, achievements, and ideals of American Industry under democracy. Secretary Roper expressed his willingness to have the Department under take this service for American business and invited Mr. Thomas J. Watson to call together a group of representative industrial leaders to discuss the merits of this plan. Mr. Watson invited a group of business men to meet with him at luncheon, on July 26th, in New rork and among those who attended were: Messrs. Colby M. Chester; S. Clay Williams; Samuel W. Reyburn; Willis H. Booth; R. H. Cabell; Howard Heinz; Frederick F. Robinson (representing Mr. John D. 3iggers of Libbey-Owens-Ford); R. H. Henry (representing Mr. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads); Matthew Robinson (of the Atlas Corporation); Dr. James T. Shotwell (of Columbia Univer sity) ; John Marshall (of the Rockefeller Foundation); Herbert S. Hous ton; and Mr. Robinson (assistant to Geo. H. Davis, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce), and others. Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., was unable to attend but sent a letter ex pressing his enthusiastic approval of the plan. Mr. Charles R. Hook, President of the National Association of Manufacturers, was in Europe but he had previously written expressing approval and nis promise of fullest cooperation. Under the plan proposed each industry would supply a feature film, not to exceed four reels in length dramatizing the history, processes, ac hievements, and ideals of that industry, and its contribution to national development. These films would be devoid of direct advertising for any individual firm but would necessarily embrace the industry as a whole. Dr. James T. Shotwell of Columbia University, the well known historian, has consented to act with Dr. Studebaker, Mr. Herbert S. Houston, and others, as a committee to work with the writers of the scenarios so as to make this library of films a true historical and inspiring record of American achievement under private initiative and democracy. N 581.02 LI7 W lX 2- - The committee which met with Mr. Watson unanimously endorsed this general plan, following discussions participated in by Dr. Shotwell and Dr. Studebaker. Under this general plan the Department of Commerce would supply sponsorship for the films and an organized system of distribution a system which does not now exist for films of this character. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce would cooperate by helpine to assist its twelve-hundred affiliated Chambers of Commerce in setting up local machinery in each city for the wide showing of these films. Dr. Studebaker told the committee that the creation of such a library of truly educational industrial films, would, in his opinion, greatly stimulate the installation of projectors in the schools so as to make these pictures available to twenty-million school children. The San Francisco Exposition has agreed to run them in the Federal theater there and the matter is being favorably considered by the New York World's Fair. The National Grange, and other national organizations, have indicated cooperation in this distribution effort. The Depart ment of Commerce would supply these films for free exhibition in the schools and elsewhere. Production would be assigned to reputable existing producers of in dustrial pictures. The Department of'Commerce feels that these films would be very use ful in foreign lands to stimulate business for American firms. I am submitting this plan to you with the request that you present it to the representative group of your industry, to whose attention it would naturally fall, so that the industry may determine as to its par ticipation in this program. Very truly yours, Signed: Frank R. Wilson Assistant to the Secretary. i_ 1 *0 01 /