Document ZBd1M6xQvyjr6E6qMJMYOy9OY
FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB)
DATE: 1966 Sept 12
DOC#: ASB037
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter from Johns Manville with Attached Newspaper Article
BENDIX
September 12, 1966
Ms. Noel Hendry Canadian Johns Manville Co. Ltd. Asbestos, Quebec Canada
Dear Noel
Just to be sure yo u have a copy, an article that appeared in Chemical Week magazine is inclosed.
So that you'll know that Asbestos is not the only contaminate? a second article from O.P. & D Reporter a3sesja share of the blame on trees.
My answer to the problem is: if you have enjoyed a good life while working with asbestos products why not die from it. T h e r e 's got to be some cause.
SAM (MAC
Director Of Purchases E. A. Martin
10 *. AiunaciAM 01 tm ir*ATWMS iwt?
P . B . 7?
Raoroduction strictly proftibitad witnout parm nsion.
By Brian Bdnnon I f f M w llol Raportar
t Bendht wortei'^oihr
ment supported the comfttnies, witnetmtaid. wt
Robinson told the comnth-
Bob Taylor asked. "Who'
going to takac m of my four
children?"
:
The 36-yeer-oM form
BendixCorp.wotk told the
Royal Commission on At
U haatoa he hat a diaaaM called asbestos and no one will
* lire ten laceBendixdosed. f ; r i'mRut a that bomb," he
-' *
1 AfoMtoaisiiahjsvobstnic-
tiofl caused by breathing in particlesofubeetoe. \
Friday*! ona-day royal
oomm'imon having at Win . dsor City HaUheardpassion
ate appeals from form Bendix workers and widows.
"The** widows showidaH be sitting Hew" Mid form
Bendix work Jack McCann, hbvdeaoracfctng.
H CALLED testimony by
senior Ontario mfciiitnr of
tabor offWaU**bibhtL'i , Minute* befisra,-AseieuiB
Deputy M i* " *f'E tlfo r
Ann Robtnaon said she be
lieved B e n d iv ^ ^ ^ EP
cancer, although he didn't workersto tee whythey diag.
-w^rt-ttni|^he.to8 She sai$|behas the ntRdf-
opmtiap * f the company
* "This is tiki -vaMry,- '- end non, but UAW offi
McCann said, "and pgople cials iatOT told the comm%>
wonder why we don't trim sion thiskthe first they hafe
the ministry?'' *
heard of this study and hade
ln'the morning, thegovern hadno input.,- i;... *
ment also tame und fire by Robiran .fedMLttay to
witnesses upset about ashe* heartheitmpnnMpMpy.i
tot in Wihdiorschools. :,, v Bendhf stmfohteMwrftton
Government it "theeve^? brieftotheoammissioitdent
_faithfuLbedmate" ofjadusufe ing it brdlt.any Ipto aim
*wben safety issues Me cbijr/ saying it dofod ttgjjttt Wi|-
f oernedt said Jim feep#* r plants!
' headofthaWindsorOacup*
tional Wely and Health theaabsstMOQitttoveny.
. Council. <-' IT AmCEEfe U/
4 WORKERS hadtodo their statements -as "inaccurate
-own 18-month survey of the andmisleading.''
T
fdieeel smoke hazard at the No on from Bemfot
t CanadMiRoek Sehwtne, he showed Up IMdey. ^
said. * Unions . stance from | Wyeth Co s health issi
O f t h e Wot-
itkm Boafd
tosis it
_
have bait
IT*.
niwiss tB65,"2:
fighting tha union over health and safety protection. i
McCann, who was health and safety representative for
UAW Local 199, said senidr ministry inspector Hugh
Nelson "sat on his ass'* tar
morethan fouryarn without
enforcing Bat. ; 's violations
ofsafety raws.
>
He prodneed tondbients showing-Nelson-eigned Or
ders in 1966 to dean up haz ' ards at Bendix and ,then
* signed the same ordift in
1 1970.
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A NUMBER
it-
nesses attacked taken by Bendix ministry that only 10
of BenaixPikers
exposed to''`sab office worked, walked through,<iustyreas
ofthe plants.
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