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FILE NAME Owens Corning OC DATE 0000 DOC OC141 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION BC Notes on OC Docs from 1940s Corning Documents from the early 1940's 1. 12-10-43 Heath memo mentions that Celotex currently has an asbestos board product p 3 Cemesto Board O wants to make an fiberglass board 2. 9-8-41 0 Legal and Patent Dept. ordered reports from GFO of Page and Bloomfield and 2 Lanza et al for 15 reports on file were received September 15 1941 3. 5-23-41 St. Louis section meeting of A.I.H.A. included C discussion of lower workers comp insurance rates for fiberglass than asbestos using manufacturing industries 66 and 95 per 100 payroll vs. 1.00 and 1.10 p 5 Millman of Aetna said they don't think glass mfg workers are subject to a special hazard ~= oh he was speaking as a bottle mfgr p 7 4. 6-16-41 incomplete 8 pp mentions Dr. Siebert's research on fiberglass for C as well as work by Gardner Lanza also cited by name only 5. 9-8-41 0-0 Legal and Patent Dept. return letter sends the above reports see 2 back to Illinois WG Hazard 6. June 1 1941 Aetna letter reprinted featuring low comp rates W feel the hazard is much less than in the manufacture of rockwool Slagwool Asbestos or any of the called 85 magnesis products 7. 1-7-42 memo from Ames to Marshall ASBESTOS WORKERS UNION mentions PHS Bull 241 on asbestosis This and other single page memo speak of the company proving its commitment by purchasing product liability coverage to show the Union that the insurers also agree that the risks to health are low 8 12-27- 41 42 44 or 47 to Gregory on Public Relations -- In formulating our policy on admixtures with asbestos we should keep on the alert because otherwise wewill run the risk of smearing Fiberglas with the hazards of exposure to asbestes suspects that magnesia manufacturers had unholy alliance with the union prompting the union to ask for premium pay to work with Fiberglas adknowledges the itch problem 9. 11-21-44 and 11-22-44 letter to Dr. Canfield and draft letter from Canfield the day earlier back to Ames saying that an insulator was disabled with asbestosis 10. 4-25-55 RW McArthur memo to Williams mentions that a premium wage is again asked by Albany NY asbestos workers local union for work with rock or glass wool Then it adds Part eyec oon Meet Meet of " the ae Meet problem has arisen as a consequence of a oy he cul 4 24, . 4 ees cabins ~ cabins . ipa )e 5 cabins ont that hospita = wo^ he canal wo^ wo^ canal 11. 12. 8-20-56 memo with attached letter from Shhepers which most helpful if we were faced with a lawsuit in reports on fiberglass were being used against we feel would be which his original us 10-11-56 ASBESTOS WORKERS UNION memo speaks of investigations made by the Hartford CT a few of the one of their local into lung disease in the union on ray quite members showed a cloudiness in the lungs Recently members died and they are having an autopsy performed to determine if he suffered from what they call asbestitous My great concern is that they keep talking about glass in their lungs Meno stamped WHY FILE THIS and Patent Dept. brought to the attention of the Legal also mentions that the union has their trade as a hazardous one Labor Commissioner taken up the question of classifying with Ernest Johnson Massachusetts 11-20-56 Drought & Assoc consultants report union relations at the local level are Fiberglass to C's Burch that betbettter er the key to loss threats against 5-9-57 13. 5-9-57 BrougBroughtht letter and comcpoa mpn anyy momo montion again that workers want a 5-23-57 5-23-57 premium to work with Fiberglass This mentions a union meeting wliera problems of Ashestosis and Silicosis were discussed The latton a neno 13BESTOSIS says I am sure that everyone in our company is conscious of the interest of the Asbestos orkers in the problems of Asbestools and allied dies