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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING New :ork, N.Y June 6, 1940 tjOo A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Lead Tndustries Association was held on Thursday, June 6, 1940, at l:f P.M. at the Pennsvivania Hotel, New York, N.Y. " present REPRESENTING lint on H. Cran~, Chairman . N. Zimmer . C. Brown-11 F. 0. Case F. W. Rockwell C. M. Chapin, ^r. I. H. Cornell F. F. Coicord St. Joseph Leai Co. American Metal Co. Ltd. American Smelting & Refining Co. International Smelting & Refining Co. National Lead Co. St. Joseph Lead Co. St. Joseph Lead Co. United States Smelting Refining Mining Co.Inc. F. n. Wormser, iecre*erv-Treasurer R. L. Ziegfeld, Assistant Secretary te meeting was called to order vith Mr. Clinton a in the chair. The minuses of the previous meeting of January l'7, 1940, were approved. REPORTS OF THE SECRETARV AND TREASURER The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer was ap proved, and attached as Exhibit nAn and "C" respectively. ELECTION OF OFFICERS The Chairman stated it was in order to elect officers of the Lead Industries Association. Whereupon the following nominations were made, and, there being no further nominations, the Secretary was in structed to cast one ballot for the election of these nominees and they were declared elected: ` Clinton H. Crane F. H. Brownell F. W. Rockwell F. E. Wormser President Vice President Vice President Secretarv-Treasurer LI AC02A2 Board of Dire? t ors Meeting 2- - June 6, 1940 nr t v~^TTmT'nr r.......................... * .**_.% . ^ r ^ i x--' w t rr"TTrTr ,>i, ^ The Chairman slaved it 7,-as in order to appoint an v ^ o # Whereupon, with the consent of the Board, the Chair man appointed the following as members of the Executive Com mittee: Clinton H. Crane, ?. H. urovnell ?. F. Colcord j ->. E. Hanley F. W. Rockwell Chairman Member shir Application - "~HE WESLEY METAL PRODUCES CO. An application for membership in the Lead Industries 's -'oci2.^ ^ 'nc.r*J *"* -^n. *? _ o r`rt Vo0 y ,s 2. -- v r:>r*o,i'jc,ts Company, Denver, Colo, v/as considered. Whereupon i the * The "'ns Iev M in *r.e Lead Indoor tv the Secretary. -as regularly moved, seconded and carried aL Products Company be admitted to members::! e: Association subject to an investigation * fT**, r -- -- US - GCLSMI rrH BROS. SMELTING *- REFINTr The Treasurer presented an offer from Goldsmith Bros. Smelting Sc -'-fining Co. for a compromise settlement of their membership dues for 1939 and 1940, based on the claim tha* they were essentially precious me*al producers. The Board carefull:-" considered the circumstances and the Secretary was in structed to explain to Goldsmith Bros. Smelting *t Refining Co. that otner members have jus* 3S large a silver business in pro portion to lead and that the Eoard could not grant them a privi lege not extended to other members. If the Company still could not see its wav clear tc subscribe to the support of the Associ ation on a tonnage basis, then it was to be dropped from the membership rolls. MEDICAL RESEARCH The Treasurer reported that the Harvard Medical School will need a fund of $3,000 for the twelve-month period beginning September, 1940, to continue its fundamental studies in lead. In addition, $500.00 had been sent to Dr. Aub for the purchase of radio-active lead, beyond the sum of $1 ,000 allowed in the budget for 1939. `. It was regularly moved, seconded and carried that the Harvard Medical School be provided with $3,000 to cover its lead research from September, 1940 to September, 1941, $1,500 of which was to be taken from the balance on hand as of January 1, 1940 and that the special expenditure of $500.00 granted the Harvard Medical School in Mav be aDDroved. ` LIA0C943 . Board of Directors Me iin? *7 June 6, 1940 A suggestion from *r. S. E. Whiting, Vice President of the liberty jiutual Insurance Comcan'-' o"f Poston that the Lead Industries Association prepare a booklet for physicians on the treatment of lead poisoning was presented, as per Exhibit "B" attached. After discussion, it was decided tha* action on this suggestion be deferred for the time being as the American Public Health Association vms planning to revise its book let on the diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning. The Secretary requested the advice of the Board on a suggestion that the Association hold another meeting of plant physicians and surgeons *o discuss lead poisoning. After discussion, it was decided that the Secre^arv ascer tain from the various member company plants how many would like to have a meeting on proven*a*ive measures rather t'-'an medical aspects o f lead hygiene and that a meeting of physicians and surgeon s could be postponed because of the numerous medical sympo si'jrns on is&'l ns'i c0n ^ during the last twelve months. Meeting adjourn LI 4 0C2A4  Board of nirectors Meet ing gxp-Tuj'r nAn June 6, 194 0 pirpOFT op THF SECRETARY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES Because the subscribers t--> the 'hlte Lead Promotion rogram and the Piumbir.s and V'a^er Yorks Promotion Program h.ave been re ceiving records of our srogress periodically, tnere is no need here in duel!eating the record. T would, however, like to call the attention of the board to some lead hygiene problems. LEAD HYGIENE (1) Provision for 1940-41 research Our budget for 1940 provided for the sum of $l,0On to carrv on Or. pub's work at Harvard up to September of this veer. In a recent conference with Dr. Aub and Dean Burweli of the Harvard Medical school of Boston, Dr. Aub tells me that he would like to count upon a fund of $2,000 for the twelve-month period beginning next September to continue his fundamental studies in lead. He has been using considerable radio-active lead products in his re search that are oroducsd ir. Harvard's new cyclotron, which is rather exoensive to operate. In fact, he needed funds for the ourchase of me toris 1 this spring and, after consultation with the Cnairmar., he - -s furnish, d with 150".Of to carry him to September. There Is no need of my oointi g out that Dr. Aub's research at Harvard has been of inestimable importance to us. Without the counsel he has gia?en tr.is office and active assistance in some of our lead jrodiems, we would indeed be at a serious disadvantage. It is a source of satisfaction to me and I hope to the ^oard, tr.at *he Lead Industries Association has a fine reputation at Harvard, hoe Public Health Service in Washington, and in Cincinnati, three of the most important localities for fundamental work or. lead hr-giene. I should like to have the approval of the Board to furnish the Harvard Medic-i School with 2,000, beginning September, 1940, (01,590 for the remainder of 1949^. This would mean that our budget this ci.lendar year, for medical research, would be 2,090 which includes the $1500.00 we already supdied Dr. Aub. Our case, balance is sufficiently large not to require any new financing to meet this request of the Harvard authorities. (2) Liberty Mutual ujfe Insurance Co. ' We received a suggestion from the liberty Mutual Life Insur ance Company which was circulated to our Board on April 10, sug- ' gesting that we orepare an autr.oritative leaflet on the treatment of lead poisoning for the use of doctors. I conferred wTith Mr. Whiting, the Vice President of the Liberty Mutual Company and Dr. A.ub in Boston recently on this suggestion. Dr. A.ub feels it has considerable merit but the difficulty is getting some one with the available time to prepare an authoritative document. LIA0024 5 : _ j j N 588.01 Boar'?, of Directors Meeting EXITITT "A" Tune , 194? REPORT 'V THE SFCkl-TARY T also learned from Cr. Aub tnat the Committee on Lead Poisoning of the American Public health Asaociati-'r. is scan ning a revision of its bulletin and I expect t'1 confer with Dr. Yehoe, the Chairman of th.e Committee, + -: see if his orospeetive publication would fill the re commend a `"ion mace by Mr V,'hiding. In the meantime, I should like to have the opinion of the board as to whether tnev feel sponsorshi , on +r.e cart of the -<e?d industries Association of an authoritative leaf Ic on lead hvgiene might be advisable. In this connection I would like to ooint out that we tried an experiment last year of meeting one ead ooisonmg issue squarely, namely, lead poisoning from leanr> '"Ter supplv lines. A uaoer "-as oreoared bv us and deliver ^ before t'-e N*:- England V* a- er V'orks Association v.hicn ; ru.h" discussed this sub.iect. 'ur o t r* p nH been carefully checked bv '. A u b p y*\ r ? irhali of the u.s. Put.ic In rvice as veil o C O ""N m ieadir.g rater works engineers, r^-cUct v.as higi.lv satis- factor" an-5 vv- were comoilmen' ed on our frank discussion. erh-os there is a lesson in thi: <k ,o r might be utilized in meet- 1 nc some o. our other ooisonine criticisms. (I) Conference of rh"s icians and burgeons A conference of member company chysiclans and surgeons as held in Chicago in the Fall of I9T". One of *-he hvsician s of a member company feels it might be desirable hoi ano*her conference in the near future. I should like to haw the LlAOC'Z^t .a EXRIEIT "E" June 6, 1940 COPY Liberty Mutual Insurance Company 17b Berkeley Bt. Boston, Mass. April Z, 1940 ~ e c r e tarv Lead Industries Association 41''' Lexington avenue ' I'- York, N.v. he: Treatment of Lead Poisoning Dear Mr. Secretarv: I hooe you will be willing to give consideration to a proposal upon the above subject for the reason that, broadly speaking, lia bility insurance companies have no interest in the many larce indus trial processes using lead compounds than to assist their policy holders in the minimization of the lead poisoning hazard. As von already kno"-, there has been very substantial progress during the east, twentv-five or thirty years in the minimization of the decree of exoosu e to lead absorption itself produced by various tyoes of what we call "engineering revision" of the lead-using processes themselves. However, there are still occurring enougn genuine cases of industrial lead poisoning to give the problem.of lead poisonin? a cnot'nuing economic importance. The efficiency of the medical treatment of individual lead poisoning cases is evidently an important factor in this situation, for the industrial plants of such size that a competent lead toxi cologist can direct the medical treatment, excellent results are be_ng Detained in reducing the total days of disability almost to the vanishing point. In contrast, where the average practicing phy sician handles the lead poisoning case, the treatment or even ihe 'enuine diagnosis of tne lead poisoning is often handled inefficiently. The basic research on lead poisoning that was sponsored by your As sociation (or the National Lead Institute ?) and conducted at Harvard University by Dr. Joseph C. Aub, et. al., has proven of very practical value in the efficient handling of acute lead poisoning, as I have noted in repeated specific instances. Since the publication of the Harvard lead poisoning research in 1926, many additional studies on the subject have been made by members of the medical profession and have been published in medical liter ature. These have included proposed methods of diagnosis of incipi ent lead poisoning, statistics of the frequency of poisoning cases in particular processes and medical treatment of active cases. Attempts have also been made in particular cases to apply medical prophylaxis against lead poisoning under a given concentration of exposure (pre sumably only slight exposure) of which I might mention offhand (1) the daily ingestion of ammonium chloride and (2) administration of certain vitamins. L IA0C2A 7 (Continued) -7 N 588.02 Board of directors Meeting -2(continued') Liberty Mutual Insurance Company EXHIBIT "B" June 6, 1940 In this present-day situation my feeling a a lavman is that the ' ork^r:: in lead Industries who become ` wmehwat ooisoned therefrom would be substantially benefitted if ail of the ohysicians who treated their cases could h= "3 available for consultation on autr.oritative and concise . ^stement of the present medical consensus of opin'on on ie: d ooisoning treat- ment. I refer, of course, not to the lead toxicologists but to the average ohysician '"no necessarily rx ndles so many of the cases of th tvoe in the numerous sme' 1 plants that have ::^me form of handling lead or * ts compound, t 4~r- + ' c. SUgr>. increasing knowledge ever-.* pnysician needs for *he treatment of his oatients, I susocc* that men*' of the :a are not at present f-miliar vitn v.hat your narvard _eao resea c.o demonstrated in the .-els' on of calcium metabolism and lea poisoning, yet such Knowledge raav be vital, T have been t . a :n e treatment of extremely a :h; ^ead poisoning. Of pro .ca. va ue also ma'r b*. sw.me of the other .more recent medical develooments in this If7 eoeef fic proposal for --o jr ccxisid-: rati'n is the spon s or ship by your r.seociation of a brochure or ded ical Treatment of Lead *'cisoning prepared jointly by severe - outstanding lead toxicologists of your own selection. Once this pamphlet were uld be made turough purchase by the iiabiiit.v insurance compani? s, member companies of vour association and in other manner tha* might surrest itself to vou. Tnsurance companies as such cannot aporopria',_eiv sponsor such a medical practice undertaking since does not lie within the score of our business. If you ure 'er not to soonsor the undertaking yourselves, would you care to consider the possi- bility of arranging for sponsorship throu gh the Council on Industrial Health of the American Medical Association? Very trulv yours, S. E. WHITING (SIGNED) Vice President Sc Consulting Engineer |_I*002*P Poerd of Directors Meeting Report of the Treasurer January 1 to Mar 21,1940 Exhibit "C" June 6, 1940 ash on Hand and in Bank, January 1, 1940 $46,643.9?(a) RECEIPTS Membership Subscription: Ordinary Fund Plumbing Promotion Fund Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign Fund 'rhite Le-d Promotion Program Fund Total Receipts i24,075.92 16,774.66 12,056.58 157,634.68 $190.541.84 TOTAL $237,190."6 DISBURSEMENTS PRPINAPB FUND: Furniture, Fixtures & Equioraent Salaries Ren+ and ^ight Social Securitv Taxes Office Su.;nlies c o ^ 1 cjy^Qijc Traveling Expenses Association Dues FrBertainment and Luncheons Telephone end Telegraph Books and Subscriotions Printing vailing ?,Le = d" (b) Tllustr?..ti-'n R6Sr-rE.r*ch Advances PLUM? TNC- PROMOTION FUND: salaries Traveling Exnenses Printing Mailing "Plumbers' Forum" Association Dues Entertainment and Luncheons Conventions and Exhibits (c) Advertising Seal of A.pproval Inspection Miscellaneous $ 486.4? 12,196.70 1,913.61 339.88 343.83 367.23 524.09 82.73 30.61 309.22 128.17 449.25 352.67 2,930.63 36.36 1,500.0 425.00 $ 2,481.98 $3,854.20 3,841.96 43.08 205.31 2,148.91 65.00 333.26 1,789.24 2,621.59 22.48 260.41 $15,185.44 Less orevious advance accounted for 300.00 $ 14,885.44 (continued) LIA0C3AQ N 588.03 16! T'. i *' ' l J o .. . 'fee^r g ^ r`?,o+'or^ (c^r,4- inued ^ he port o:' tr.e Treasurer T r- >->>.-> yrr r i + * llr-r T l * ^ 4e* 1 ^ ^ . *-- > V yjn i b 4 t w " June 6, 194'"' JTc (Continued) uco i . cv njss 2_"-rpT; pp^prj^-o.pp^tT-pp 3Aj :;t c a mp a ig n f u n d : r.icri&s raveIInr Expenses rJ nt ing ailing n + r + ir.T.ent rnd -uncheons or.venti~ns and Exhibits (c 'i - , , r +. r +- - r | c r> r ; S 4,759.00 4,13b.Be 33.87 108.62 293.86 1,033.69 CLltb.T r '^ c ^ -----I--F--r-s---r-\-r-> <C> 1 _i"_ r%4-. iV * O,?-C h r-: c ; I n- to i t:TTr Lp^p opo-;^^TON DP^GEAy FUND: r' A c 'V^,*' ^4 o r-' + urr.i-ure,Fixtures and Equipment ng Expenses i nnenx and *jurch^or.s - i o i on 4-1 Club Advertising boace .' f"' p ^ 'E'' i us, iio.se 1,831.69 Fe:-rl'r Contract Credit 1,^33.13 Juv'licit;' ?r oduc tion A d r nj C* C ^ r, *. 4. > --1 _ 306.4c ^'<l- 9 9 630.Oo 140.33 116.43 1p go X' r*' 1,731.93 f C' 7Q x 74 0.01 103,3-01.39 4,118.30 10,383.66 nen on *w _ -/ w ' V ' 6138,919.3'-' Accrued Taxes, January 1, 1940 Total Disbursements 909.58 ri88,0.OP Cash on Hand and in Bank, May 31, 1940 FOOT-NOTES 48,970.74 tp'zo i on vp t_. *w Cx 1 j ^ W * ' fa's 3,002.00 of this amount earmarked for Sheet Lead Promotion. (b) Includes printing, mailing an: miscellaneous expenses entailed in oublishing "^ead.n Whi^e Lead Promotion Fund charged with tne additional expense of the enlarged magazine. (cN Includes expenses incurred at conventions and exhibits includ ing advertising in convention programs, tut excluding field reoresentatives' expenses. The following subscriptions were outstanding as of May 31,1940, and are not included in the receipts above: Ordinary Fund Plumbing Promotion Fund 375.00 555.00 LJA0C2en V'hite Lead Promotion PimH 4 Mg,84* * 3,516.40 of this amount has been received since May 31, 1940