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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1948 Dec 27 DOC OC070 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo Difficult to Read an Mr. G. E. Gregory December 87 2065 " PUBLIC PLATICIS AHOLIS IN BRANCH ADS DIVISION KOTHAR BORAY 001 r B. P. fixer Mr. T. 8. Recers Mr. O. Someon Mr. J. H. Thoms Hr W. E. Page R Attached is a detailed summary of references in the Post questionnaire to Fiberglas- agb ostos agb ostos admixtures and the ital problem Branch and Division mon almost unanimously urge further development of class and asbostos edmixtures to broaden the electrical and fabrics mariots And they indicate that product improvement to reduce or elimi thn e a itct h e is imperative if we are to compete successfully in markete where Fiberglas wool products possoas desired engineering obaracteristics Following art oleorvations on some publie relations ancios of those comnts report them to you at your request I am clad to C admixtures kAdomioxoptnurteowwithitAhsbSeosomtuosse formleting gr policy on otherwise we will run the risk of exparing Fibercles with the beserts of exposure to asstos with asbostos should Pabrication excomuro to of asbestos in both betile and asbestos my involves the dancer pathological bertile forma is a of asbestosis & pathologicaplatholgical dusty process lung conditiocnonditon scrommt lile silicosis This hasard is minimized by use of hoods and exbeurt qretone and woaring of respiratores the asbestos fabricating industry has loarnod by the hard way how to control it More significant fabrication of tertilo asbestos involves a shin basard To this bandling abortos yarns in carding drusting twisting and plying operations my and in warping and weaving wherever the netorial pase through the fincers at high spood -- may acquire skin lesions known as bebestos corne onused by liko asbestos fiber into the skin onbedding of the The asbestos mamiferturing mamiferturing industry is woll acquainted with those husards and its workers pretoctive duvices It follows that any extensive Fiberglas abertos any extensive Fiberglas abertos slsoltothh mmanufaactnurinug fmaancuftauctruirinngg propran might establish nabortos fabricators Bucha course fabricoting facilities of our own sad would prevent avoi^ ourmight well be having tosseett asbestos bazarda prevent exposing our people might adversoly affect our compensation ratings and disability experienos My sugestion sugestion is therefore that the handling of asbestos in combination with Fiberglas be dissociated from our own faturing eoeeno0 The Mol Prdim Although our filos are fully documented with medical references and buniddoatoe n tostrate that exposure be Piberglas materials involves no disabling injuries or disonse wo have long recognised that the handling of Fiberglas wool producte Jocs involve same skin dlofort pointed sluge and unfiberised spiculos have altrition Trutural strence to penetrate define this effect as the skin and to use a distrossing itali altrition altrition disabling trous whio^,,la branaltory and puperficial and it Las been doonstrated 1. that workers soon bec000 socustomed to the material and handle it . C) without difficulty if they stick on the job long to build on Suniant d Ry. that when the mental hasard is recoved washing before meals and at the end of each with plenty of wild soap and war water use of calamine lotion containing one containing per as an pruritic and monetimes use ofa cloansor sontaining a agent such as bulleen which is cormal impregnatweitdh lanolin ordinarily suffice Since thy 1941 our bealth program bas boon built on these premises 4 1. Find out the facts Our files have been centralised complete relato~ data have been as an insurance experience investigations have been carried outs Biobert Bulsberger Solwarts sobols etc. 8. Get the facts into medical literature Artiales have doen published in . Purpery Industrialedict Industrialedict Amoric Journal of Association Industrial Rundens tipost etc. Journal of the American Medical 5.5. mysthte omyrstoyry out of the subfoot by making the facts available to members of organoiwsnaotrigoannisation general public Health Aspecta has been and reprints publiched publiched distribution of articles in medical journals made available for general . ^' 4. Bandle inquiries and fully All bona fide inquiries have been answered groups B. Concentrateonprofessional and technical #influonne contors -- Indical are enganoors Industrial hygienists plant plusicians and marees publis hoalth authoritios Ese contacts have been and are being sultivated This has boen a slow procoss of education Frequently Erano men have been under the suspicion of being dovil's advocates to get the order and their talk about the abronos the health hasard has boon discounted Bace branch mon bos met familiar enough with bealth story to tell it in a forthright and securate manner still reflect a defeatist attitudo about the itch and local competitive conditions setimes frustrate t~ m @eese eos Our efforts to combat the itch may be adeguate in seller's market it is a certainly they will be inadequate in a Postwar buyor's market In some cases we have been Dutch boy at the dike trying to sten a competitive avalanche that threatens Be can point with pride however to the consistent effort we have made fect on its merits To havne othing to hide noth to i copn osg al And boon calos obstacle apparently ruling our materi oua t l ofsa job the roal resecbaas lain dooper in a complex of looal and national manufacturing distributiondistribution and applicaapplica tion methods Behind such situations lion the fact that the Asbestos Workers Culon has had a long demonstraates demonnstratesd portape unholy alliance with the magnesia manufacturers Evidence in our files 4 Asbestos the Asbestos forterefortere stimulated insist 1. Far Labor Doard will not approve 2. It implies haza a har zad rd does exist 8. The proccdent established would be difficult if not imposstoib uplaret Back of this situation is our distributing arrangments in the industrial insulation field Creation break of industrial mristors was matr hei maa rit at But since a thsattop Rully justified at time it has became the the apparent it was undertaken that next to the podia maquftcturers themselvethse strongest mar in k the e mart ket is the contract applicator who gets the best Contract applicators bandling from the pecufacturer and who bids and applies the job Fiberglas mast buy at 80 off list through the Piberglas in- dustrial marketer who gote off list Undoubtedly many of these applied tructors are outisfied with this arrancosob But their own competitors - applicators cething the best price direct from the magnosia manufacturers -- 800 of maristers in the distribution a throat their own behalf or at the bebent of negosia asbertor wo kors with whom they live and work in very close relationship to use an imagined bolth hazard to embarrass the Fiberglas contruct applicators applicators present discount Tous to clean this situation we will be obliged obliged Industrial paristor 8. to decide whether his 1.1 readin the raison d'etre of su is equitable in view of the economic functions to performs as compared with the discount given the contract appli- eator and 3. to determine stethor we can set up suficient the carlot : oa Another factor is the lonebanding grievance of the Asbestos Workore Dedon that no settle- meat ever has boon made by Corning Fords on the disbute over the CoratnCi orn nig ng Both fr by Thovill day day Company may have some bearing on this recetn hat t aly settcianobneomnadte be BUDAPY Manufacture Fabrication application application of Fiberglas mterials involve no basard attributable to Fiberglas ne differentiated from other materials That point is well established Bandling Bandling itch of the wool materials accetines involves akin discomfort somaly called the This is a disabling condition that ordinarily is overcome by good body kypiano But competitive conditions have brought about a altuation sberein the itch has become a for Crewine and so are afton unable to discuss the itch characteristics obfootively in a competitive competitive salos situation Especially in the industrial insulation market ox- petitors have used it to extermeas us by stirring up the Rabostos Toriars to decen~ docent_pro- ndum uogos for applyingapplying Fiberglas Introduction of Fiberglas industrial marketers is unorthodox distribution in this market and has disturbed the contract applicators who Be in it a throat to their position The lack of a Corning settlement too still disgruntlos the Un'on which refuses to beli w we are not closely related to Corning NeomondatioNeomnondatsions 1. Continue our basic health program as outlined above This is fundamental . educational works 2. Intensify product wool products products and procese improvement activities to reduce slug content of _ 8. ' Tie industrial marketer Anctions and discounts and relationship of exp establish tmot applicators and determine ways and moons to tractors to sover the market . more applied cop- : 4. Bring about a settlement by Corning with the Asbestos Forters at the earliest opportuniotpportyunity 5. Improve relationships with the Albertos Workers Onion by closer souteots through contract applicators _ These recommendations recommendations are based on the belief that the itch is not an is lated proble to be solved alone ty product improvement rather it provides a commenient though spurious starting point for Fiberglas conspiracy by the Asbestos Dufon Workers who are the instruments of the panufacturers and contract applicators applicators warwtart O. Anse