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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1942 Jan 7 DOC OC167 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Internal Memo RE Asbestos Workers' Union CORPORATION Te Masevaesty FIBERGLAS ee, Mm i COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE Attention of General Offices Toledo Ohio 15. E. J. January 7 1942 Marshall January CC + - Mr. Harold Boeschenstein Subject = ASEESTOS WORKERS UNION Ment - we ee Review of 46 hewitt oltce ... er | 1 The issue was joined wertens 2Chneette. Rr oon me ad 2 Our health story was drawn $- oases . how wh re + 4. . together ee A .. ho L 3 Our strategy has been to 4+ % em e- attack each situation locally ar e , Immediate Develoments Ahead for 1942 a a d 1. Siebert article to appear in Jamary issue of INDUSTRIAL MEDICIN. E Yee, 2 Gardner article in preparation for JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL EYGI^ NE 3. Sulzberger program under way Strategy for 1942 Should it not be to take the offensive The following plan is suggested 1 Gather as a reserve an impressive file of medical literature on asbestosis photostats of covering medical literature to Available are two bibliographd bibliographd publications in which the 1938 citing references to scores of discussed This file lung and skin hazards of asbestos are can be would cover five or six hundred microphotographed Washington in in the library of the pages which Surgeon General in or some other medical library plan 2. a Explore through Aets the whereby our products feasibility of working out a liability coverage could be extended to all members of the Asbestos Workers Union ever they are handling Fiberglas wherever products and when same 2,000 workers all of whom This would involve rays to be would have to be rayed all probabilityingtievrepnretaedphyasticTarludeexaaumibnyatDiro.n Sbaemfporseon and in coverage became effective on a set date group b If feasible approach Union leaders plan as follows with offer | presenting 1 A demonstration of Corning's Corning's willingness to work Andam Andam Andam Andam of SubjecStubject Subject Subject . 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Zim ASBESTOS WORKERS UNION -- --, --, - Review of 1941 1 The issue was joined 2 Our health story was drawn together - Dagse Dagse Dagse what t - r rents benny - i tee fe fowl 6 Pen 3- X455 him white se 6 oe 3. Our strategy has been to attack each situation locally rs Immediate Developments Ahead for 1942 -? viet ta Cid , fog toe 1. Siebert article to appear in January issue of INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 2 Gardner article in preparation for JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE 3. Sulzberger program under way Strategy for 1942 Should it not be to take the offensive The following plan is suggested 1 Gather as a reserve an impressive file of photostats of medical literature on asbestosis Available are two bibliographies covering medical literature to 1938 citing references to scores of publications in which the lung and skin hazards of asbestos are discussed This file would cover five or six hundred pages which can be microphotographed in the library of the Surgeon General in Washington or in some other medical library 2. a Explore through Aetna the feasibility of working out a plan whereby our products liability coverage could be extended to all members of the Asbestos Workers Union wherever and when- ever they are handling Fiberglas products This would involve some 2,000 workers all of whom would have to be rays rays to be interpreted at Trudeau by Dr. Sampson and in all probability given a physical examination before group coverage became effective on a set date b If feasible approach Union leaders with offer presenting plan as follows 1 A demonstration of Corning's willingness to work Farm OC 21 Attention of CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION COMPANY CORRESPONDENCE General Offices - Toledo Ohio 020 Subject ( with A.F. of L. Union Labor 2 A means of extending to Union members on construction jobs the same kind of insurance protection and industrial hygiene . precautions now available to workers in private industry 3 An irrefutable demonstration of the willingness of a reputable commercial insurance company to underwrite such a risk and of the manufacturer to carry the premium cost c favorable If reaction is arrange for Aetna representatives to present plan at Union district conferences and meetings of locals or at general convention of Union in fall of 1942. Presen- tation to be accompanied by distribution of Aetna leaflets ex- plaining the insurance and telling the Fiberglas health story d If reaction is unfavorable use the asbestosis reserve to let them stew We may be sure that word the proposal wil reach competition and may give us a lever with which to go direct to the locals under the union's professed law of local autonomy This procedure may provide an opportunity to promote dissension in the ranks that conceivably could bring about throw of the present Union leadership 0 The proposal can be exploited publicity to our advantage either way If the reaction is favorable it is a step unprecedented in the industry taken by a manufacturer so confident of the absence of unusual hazard in his materials that he has joined forces with Aetna - at a rate more favorable than could be granted to any competitive manufacturer - to protect and reassure labor and assume liability attaching to any occupational hazard attribu- attribu- table to his materials oe If the reaction is unfavorable the way is opened to spread word among the locals about the refusal of the Union officals to make this protection available to the members and to play all the oo. stops on asbestosis Implied is the threat to distribute to all members of the Union copies of the U.S. Public Health Bulletin 241 on Asbestosis Aygo WY Principal advantages of the whole plan are that it would take out of the realm of rumor and gossip all the stories of injuries that are floating around would enable us to document such stories and would enable us to take the offensive in telling the health story of Fiberglas where it would do the most good Sea