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PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT MET-972 . I III V TRI*8TATX XIIC AID UUD OK* fHOECOXM UaOOUTlC* flaher, Oklahoem Jan. 31, 1933 Mr. Dent Id E, Cuming*, Saranao Laboratory fop tbs tud7 of T.B. Saranao Lake, K.Y. Dear Hr. Cuaalng*: . Your paper on ^Studies on Sllleoilj Occurring in the Lead nd Zinc Ilnai of Ottawa County, Ok la.* ha* been gone over bp the Counaal for th* Aatoolatlon and haa b*n aubsitted to th* Board of Diraotort for oonalderation. 1 aa aiked to adTla* you that the Board feel* that nothing oould be published that la ao potentially damaging to th* lead and line In* operator* of this dlatrict. The poiaibllitle* of it* Tary damaging aa* in the hand* of acne anaorupaloua lawyers or other* who night be in ter** tad in (tirrlng up dosage *ult* agalnat th* alning ooopaniet i* ex tremely great at this tia*. In many ttate* in th* union there are no* pending lulta far hundred* of olein* far total disability fran occupational disease*. The alning ooapaniae no* in axiitence her* would h'.v* to bear . the burden of paying fer dlaabilltlea to which they *r* vary alnor oontrlbutora. If aunh aalta areerer filed here. It it true that a aan who ha* glT*n hi* life to an isduetry and ba* became thereby dleabled ahoold be taken ear* of. Effort* are being aada to work out tom* fair way to do thla, but it 1* no eay Batter. In the aean-tlae, th* Industry eould be entirely wreck*! if It acre (addled with th* bare of everyone who might be p*r*uad*d to tak* action agalnat It oa th* ground* of dlaablllty fro* tlLlooal*. You ean ** what a brief your paper would be In aunh eaeee. In Tie* of th* above, the Board expreiiea it* fir* objection to the publication of your papr, although it fully appreolat** th* eolantlflo 'value of your rtudlea. Ilth klndeat regard*, I aa - Tary aincerwly your*, (Signed) I. D. Harbeugh. X. D. Eartaugh, See'y PRODUCED S/C/MMs 00120; `t3& '-i /