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FILE NAME: General Electric (GE) DATE: 1932 Dec 3 DOC#: GE146 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Mr. Banash from Dr. Winslow Rejecting Pressures to Publish Study Results that Don't Validate the Truth of Hazards of Silica Dust Under the fair use provisions of the copyright law of the United States (17 USC 107), this single copy was produced ior reference use only from material in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, P.O, Box 208240, 128 Wall Street, New Haven C l 0652C-824C. ' Unless permission is granted, neither this copy nor the words on it may be: reproduced in any form; used by an unauthorized person, or placed in the collections of any institution or individual. December 5 1932 W dear Mr,Bans.eh! X m so rry to take what flees to be an ob stru ct ir e a ttitu d e , out I can not see any other proper course* Unless there has been aoue r s d le a l change of h e a r t on one s id e or th e o th e r, I can not see what can cone o f an attem pt to reopen t h is is s u e except Bore g r ie f fo r everyone* We went over t h la m atter w ith th e abrasive and foundry people in two lon g se ss io n s and i t i s not a q u estion of s c ie n t if i c f a c t s or o f v erb a l p r e sen ta tio n . The b asic is s u e i s that th ey do not -?ant any p u b lic a tio n fr o th e Council t o imply that s i l i c a dust i s hazardous under any eon d ition s* They know that i t i s , but they don' t want any a u th o r ita tiv e body to say so* How you can n o t very w e ll discu ss protection against s ilic a dust without the im plication that s i l i c a dust i s undesirable* I f Cameron can d r a ft a statem ent that w i l l be accep ta b le to th e s c i e n t i f i c men on the one hand and t o the fotmdrymen on the o th e r , God b le s s him , I do f e e l , however, that ih a te v e r use i s Bade o f the r e p o r t, the proposed a c tio n should be referred to a l l the members o f the te c h n ic a l e a a a ltte a and not B arely t o me* tours very sincerely, C*B.A.Winslow Under the fair use provisions of the copyright law of the United States (17 USC 107), this single copy was produced for reference use only from material in Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, P.O Box 208240, 128 Wall Street, New Haven CT 06520-8240. Unless permission is granted, neither this copy nor the words on it may be: reproduced in any form; used by an unauthorized person; or placed in the coliections of any institution or individual