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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1956 Nov 20 DOC OC149 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter to Corning from Consultant Group RE Asbestos Workers Union * 5.41 IRA 1. BROUGHT & ASSOCIATES CONSULTANTS 138 EDISON B. ,, ny, TOLEDO4 OHIO November 20 1956 ? . - " : 7 _4? tile 3 . . <2 ; 1/15 Mr. M. D. Burch Director of Industrial Corning Fiberglas Corporation National Bank Building Toledo Ohio Relations Dear Mr. Burch ; On November 15 I advised to Washington D. C. and you by telephone of my visit of the Asbestos Workers Um niyonconfWeeretnaclekewditohf the international officers interest which led into a discussion of the healtmhatters of general conducted by several of their locals in investigation being led to a discussion of the New England area and that connection therewith our problem in the South and their attitude in While the international officers as they always have been were personally friendly I detected an element of animosity toward Corning Fiberglas as a against glass company and specifically a feeling Normally you would their own investigation investigation with expect the International to conduct locals if respect to health bazards for their they believe such hazards exist I various that either Mr. Sickles personally don't believe or Mr. Hoff feel that their any lung condition resulting from the people have developed handling of Fiberglas On the ship They did say the past deleted however that they had on several occasions references to the subject fr in the during in the quarterly Asbestos Workers minutes as published they said that they could Journal In the same connection issues Mr. not keep the refere Sickles advised that the matt ce out of the last several had last Executive been brought up at the Meeting held in Miami Flo da last Executive Board as a whole indicated spring and the complaints from their th they had had no particular the harm that could membership I cit to Mr. Sickles and Mr. Hoff result from the public ton of and that such references unsupported rumors and be appearing in the picked up by other locals ournal might be contagious Mr. M. D. Burch November 20 1956 particularly in conference with these gentle- While I received no proof resulted from the situation we men that the revival of the health subjectmade it very clear that they have permitted to exist in the Souotfhutn hei y on applicators over a period Work- didn't like our continued support favor the United Mine of years when those applicatorsI was in no position to ask am sure that ers You will appreciate In their opinion I had dirty hands favors of the executive officers we could always Mr. Sickles made the statement In years gone by but of late we have not hadd get something accomplished by calling you your cooperation In the near future I plan to confer the most powerful and influencial of the the individual with whom I dealt ten years ago in that was placed against Fiberglas Fiberglas rescinded with Mr. Hugh Mulligan Executive Board and having the premium two occasions that I visited Washington On the last made reference to Mr. Carl Sickles the International President old friends about he had had from our competitors and their complaints seemed to have on the market It is not beyond the monopoly Fiberglas of the health question has been the realm of possibility that the revival encouraged by competition lived intimately with this situation for ten years I have is done and done promptly and I feel very strongly that unless something find them giving with the International we may to better our position of their locals with respect to the silent approval to the activities could be costly to the On the long haul this condition health problem volume of sales may preclude seeing there Fiberglas industry The storm clouds accumulating over the years that our first line of have suggestedand spread revival of the health defense against the reopening and their industri il lies with the various branch managers de question believe that anything that is likely to imp salesmen I personally is a sales hazard I also believe believe the freeflow of the sale of Fiberglas branch offices and eir that if there was an intimate liaison between could be nipj ed in more of the complaints respective business agents the bud truly IB gmw Ira I. Brought