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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. V ' A NUMBER it- nesses attacked taken by Bendix ministry that only 10 of BenaixPikers exposed to''`sab office worked, walked through,<iustyreas ofthe plants. <* ^ -&A '