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Ve* Y;rk, N. June 13. The annual meeting anc luncheon of the ::.eo. c. j* 3 - r -he Lead Industries r.ssociati or. was :.elc at t: e <alu -* rA Astoria Hotel, New York City, or. Thurscay, v une 13. t at IS :30 P.li. Present E. A. Behr E. Bendelari j. ?.. MacGregor Miles Zoller E. M. Evans Frank Bussell 0. E. Planteroth ?. E. SDrague F. M. Carter irold Fowe A. Csllahan v4W..li C. Hunt Chapin, Jr. K. Cornell u t Crane S. Mulock Y. Robertson F.epr-* senting American Smelting i rc^ :.i:.t C- '"agle-.-icher Lead Com r: Tt n n P M M fi Evans Lead Comcar.y Mr.rks ft Lissberger ft n S *s H r- Metals Refining Como a r.y o5 m C National Lead Compar.j Hecla Mining Comoany P.eynolus M-tals Comoany St. Joseph Lead Company ft n * United States Smelting fining L Mining Co. Wormser, Secretary-Treasurer Ziegfeld, Assistant Secretary Guest . Davey -; r* *4 Represented by Proxy: Carter White Lead Co. Ltd, rA^erican Metal Co. Ltd. p^Ahaconda Lead Products Co. * ^Acaconda 8ales Company rifinker Hill & Sullivan Mining Concentrating Co. 7^3ief Consolidated Mining Co. ]lumbia Smelting k Refining "own Metal Company Dickson Weatherproof Nail Co. Federal Mining & Smelting Co. Federated Metals Corp. W. p. Fuller & Comoany Hammond Lead Products Inc. Hecla Mining Comcany Hercules Mining Company Imperial Type M<=tal Co. Johnston Tin Foil & Metal Co. The Lewin Metals Corp. Nassau Smelting & Refining Co. National Bearing Metals Corp. Northwestern Metal Mfg. Co. Inc. Northwest Lead Company Park Utah Consolidated Mines Co. Rochester Lead Works Inc. Sherwin-Williams ".o. Silverstein t Iinsof Inc. Sunshine Mining Co. Tintic Standard Mining Co. 504: The meeting was called to order at 1:46 P.M., with 1Clinton h. Crane in the Chair. The minutes of the Annual Meeting of June 5, 1934 ,-re approved. P The Treasurer's Report was approved and is appended ,erewith as Exhibit "A". The Secretary's Report was approved and follows: SECRETARY'S REPORT The following is a brief resume of the activities of ?the Lead Industries Association during 1934: T statistics- - Our statistical reporting has gone forward with er material chance. From time to time special statistical re'ports were crepared by the Lead Industries Association on the subject of employment in the Lead industry for use in code ne gotiations, but tr.is activity was subsequently taken over by the Code Authority. Efforts are constantly being made to en large the scope cf our reports and to increase their usefulness to members. eziissilaaition a) Nut:ional Industrial Recovery Act - The Lead Industries iation acted as sponsor for the Lead Code and conducted the lotions with the N.R.A. which led to its approval on June 4, The Lead Code was essentially a Code having to do with and wages, there being no unfair trade practices designa- or the Mining or Snelting and Refining Divisions. As the tive Committee of the Lead Industries Association was made )f the Code Authority for the Lead Industry, there was a relationship between the governing bodies of both organiza, although both functioned separately. The Lead Industries Association constantly placed its services at the disposal of the Code Authority for the Lead In dustry and the N.R.A. in the administration of the Lead Code. At the time of writing the Supreme Court has held that codes of fair competition under the N.I.R.A. are unconstitutional and the labor that went Into them largely lost, but it should be a source of much gratification to the members or the Lead Industries Association that the entire code experiment cost very little, es pecially considering the fact that our oode represented a number of large lead industries such as, lead mining, smelting and refin ing, manufacture of whlta lead, red lead, litharge, pipe, sheet, type metal, solder, babbitt matal, foil, etc. Had eaeh one of these industries prepared and administered its own oode, the cost would have been perhaps twenty times as large as it actually was In combining code administration for these industries under one lead code. f*.. > The termination of the Lead Coda doea not, of course, af fect the position of the Lead Industries Association to continue voluntarily those cooperative activities which have constituted its reason for existence and which. here been carried on now for almost seven years. a. sr,- **> * 554; r&bc w. (Secretary's Report - Continued) FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION D#tkit Is, /litponoest'i Likifcit o . (b) Tariff - The passage of an Act of Congress, entitled the Trade Agreements Act, approved June If, 1934, delegating to the President the right to enter into eci rocal trade agreements with foreign countries, has caused our Association once again to act on behalf of its constituent lead indus tries in defense of their existing tariff protectitn. Al though very little was done in .934, under the Impression that the Administration would be loathe to reduce the mooest tariff on lead products, for the reason that the lead industry was greatly depressed, and needs all the protection it now possesses, the unexpected action of the President, throug.n the State Department, in cutting the tariff on white leua in the 3elgium agreement, which became effective Ma.. 1, 19c5, has made it necessary for us to make certain that the administra tion is fully acquainted with all the facts rela'ive to our industry in every trade agreement projected of even remote interest because, uncer most-favored-nation treaties, tariff reductions granted one country are immediately exter.cec to others. Accordingly, briefs have been or-'1 pared and are being prepared to cover any reciprocal trade agreement in wnich the lead industry may be interested. The Association is vigilant ly watching the development of the tariff program in Wus.-ingtor.. 3. Educational Activities - Part of the membership of the Lead industries Association, that is, manufacturers of white lead and most of the mining companies, are supporting a pro motional project known as the Forest Proautts - Better Paint Campaign, which is designed to cultivate the inter--sts that exist between the lumber companies and the manufacturers of white lead-in-oil and high-grade orepared paint in the United States in the selling of both products. Paint and lumber markets have been lost owing to the inroads made by poor ^u 11 ty pc*. int in the painting business. The Forest Products - Better Paint Campaign began in 1934 its work of attending conventions of lumber manufacturers In the more important States of the Union, and succeeded in procuring the endorsement of the most influen tial and largest lumber organizations, such as tne American Forest IToducts Industries, Inc., California Redwood Associa tion, Douglas Fir Plywood Manufacturers, National Lumber Manu facturers' Association, National Retail Lumber De^l-rs' Associa tion., led Cedar Shingle Bureau, Southern Pine As:;'istion, West Comat Lumbermen's Association, Western Pine Ass;ci tion, and Western Red Cedar Lumber. This was followed by nuance at a great many retail lumber dealers conventions in .u?4 and 1935 with marked suoeess. Already there are signs that some manufacturers of patently low-grade leadless paint, who have been cultivating tha lumber outlet, are changing their for mulae to include lead. There are also signs that the lumber industry is aroused over the problem and determined to see that its own distributing channels are not to be availed of for marketing a product so damaging to their industry as poor paint. .Those who have supported this program have been kept fully advised of each step that has been taken snd e summary is now being prepared and will be mailed to interested members of the Lead Industries Association. i_;_n - J : 3 t :. : - . -- -- -* t 2 >C i the mining companies in the Assoc ia tier, have cooperated In a program to encourage the use of lead plume log goods by p lumbers. So successful was our initial work in arousing th e help of master plumbers and Journeymen (r the larger Indus trial states in 1933 that the program was enlarged In 1335 to permit the employment of another field Representative to w ork from Chicago as a base. Thus we have two sen almost cons tantly in the field in the area east of the Mississippi and although they have a large territory to cover, the attached report will indicate, I believe, that ex- treoely encouraging progress has been made. v1 (c) Publications - Of general interest to the membership at large is our house organ LEAD, which continues to receive a welcome recaption in the trade, fe are continually endeavor ing to -ublish nothing but original material of such a helpful nature that those who are reached by this publication, namely, architects, engineers, plumbers and others, will be impelled to read and preserve it. 2. (d) Sheet Lead - It is interested to observe that as the result of our educational work, many requests for technical assistance are received regularly by the Association, some of them leading to substantial business. We believe we can mo destly claim credit, for example, for the use of sheet lead on the roof of the Rahway Reformatory in New Jersey, which is the third largest metal roofed dome in the world and will require about 100,000 lb. of sheet lead. We have in contemplation, as mentioned before, the preparation and distribution of a book let on sheet lead which should do much to spread appreciation for the merits and usefulness of this valuable lead product. 4. Lead Poisoning - Hardly a day goes by but what this subject receives some attention at the headquarters of the Association. We are constantly Investigating alleged cases of leaa poison ing and endeavoring to correct misstatements about lead poison- k lnS t0 calm misapprehension about the toxic properties of the Sr metal and to accumulate all possible material of scientific value to help us in our efforts. At the request of Dr. Aub of the Harvard Medical School, and his associate, Dr. Fairhall, we are contributing j| *i0O0 to Harvard College to continue the lead investigations over a two year period. Dr. Fairhall is planning to make a thorough investigation of teohnique In determining small amounts of lead in biological and other materiel - a problem still Possessing much uncertainty, cad Dr. Aub is planning to study the course of lead la the blood. trearn. Heedless to say the jwdieal research which-tutt alr#*47 beea done by the Institution * been of great wmlvMF id tbm' fcatlre world and it is to be r that additional -infoftamtfao 'will be procured that will ^`crther enable us idtelligdntiy to handle any lead health ero fa te*** that trifle.- - - rW * other reasons for the establishment of a co ; J?rstive organisation in the lead industries were to disap |*r25ti5b?Ul,thhBgptroblem alone would be sufficient warrant for its - i hi KlML TltjCuj COMMifcSlQN , fciM l, Elkibii Is. 5. Conelullon - The Lead Industries Association ha* been for tunate from its very inception in enlisting the support of the principal factors in the lead industry, both producers and consumers. The wisdom of providing for an all-inclusive arrangement was again forcefully demonstrated in practically every activity in which the Association is engaged, whether legislative, educational or health work. Regardless of what the future may hold for business, the Lead Industries Associa tion is an active organization ready to carry out any coopera tive program desired by those whom it serves. Resp< " ` ` 1, The Chairman stated that it was now in order to elect a new Board of Directors. The Secretary was requested to read the names and representation of the present director ate, substituting the name of Mr. A. E. Bendelari for that of Mr. R. M. Roosevelt, resigned Whereupon the following directors were duly nominated and there being no other nominations, and all the nominees being eligible, the Secretary was instructed to cast one ballot for the election of these nominees and they were declared elected Directors of the Lead Industries Association: B. N. Zimmer F. E. Brownell Clarence Glass 8. A. Easton A. E. Bendelari Ivan Reitler ' J. F. McCarthy P* E. 8pragu# F. M. -Carter G. I. bambourne V.' Y. C. Bunt Clinton Crane J. I. ItaU F. I. Robartson representing American Metal Co. Ltd. American Smelting and Refining Company Anaconda Sales Company Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Co. Eagle-Picher Lead Company Federated Metals Corp. Hecla Mining Company Metals Refining Company National Lead Company Park Utah Consolidated - Mines Co. Reynolds Metals Company St. Joseph Lead Company 8ilver King Coalition Mines Company Tlntio Standard Mining Co. United 8tates Smelting Refining and Mining Company, Inc. \^ r Pag* 6. The meeting thereupon adjourned, ac 2:00 P.M Secretary. k f d e r a il t r a d e c o mmis s io n IiUf * J J