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BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING New York, N. v June 6, 1940 UJ o A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Lead Tndustries Association was held on Thursday, June 6, 1940, at l:.c. ?.M. at the Pennsvivania Hotel, New York, N.Y. Present REPRESENTING lint on H. Cran^, Chairman . N. Zimmer . C. Brownell F. 0. Case E. V,. Rockwell C. M. Chapin, Jr. I. H. Cornell F. F. Colcord St. Joseph Leal Co. American Metal Co. Ltd. American Smelting & Refining Co. International Smelting & Refining Co. National Lead Co. St. Joseph Lead Co. St. Joseph Lead Co. United States Smelting Refining ^ Mining Co.Inc. F. n. Wormser, iecre*arv-Treasurer R. L. Ziegfeld, Assistant Secretary te meeting was called to ord : in the chair. th Mr. Clinton^ The minuses of the previous meeting of January l'7, 1940, were approved. REPORTS?? THE SECRETARV AND TREASURER The reports of the Secretary and Treasurer was ap proved, and attached as Exhibit nAn and "C" respectively. ELECTION OF OFFICERS The Chairman stated it was in order to elect officers of the Lead Industries Association. 'Thereupon the following nominations were made, and, there being no further nominations, the Secretarv was in structed to cast one ballot for the election of these nominees and they were declared elected: Clinton H. Crane F. H. Brownell F. W. Rockwell F. E. V,'ormser President Vice President Vice President Secretarv-Treasurer LIAC0242 Board of Dire? * ors Meeting June 6, 194 0 2- - >Ti^1T'T w^nsjiLfu'f.T1^-'T. TITZT.ZT' The Chairman 3va*ed it was in order to appoint an ^ x c x 4 * * ni'Ti ^ c Whereupon, with the consent of the Board, the Chair man appointed the following as members of the Executive Com mittee: Clinton H. Crane, F. H. srowneil F. F. Colcord j-i. E. Hanley F. W. Rockwell Chairman Membership Application - THE WESLEY METAL PRODUCES CO. An application for membership in the Lead Industries t, s^oci3."ti ?6-rif'rom Tns 7'^nsi -- v Pr'o'iuc^s Company, Denver, Colo. was considered. Where'ipen i tha t The "'-.rsie" y in ' r.e Lead Indusr by the Secretary. y r-- "as regularly moved, seconded and carried ai Products Company be admitted to memtershir. e: Association subject to an investigation 'Jo - 'LnSMIrrH BROS. SMELTING '* REFIN' The Treasurer presented an offer from Goldsmith Eros. Smelting -'-fining Co. for a compromise settlement of their membership dues for 1939 and 1940, based on the claim the* they were essentially precious me^ai producers. The Board carefull:-" considered the circumstances and the Secretary was in structed to explain to Goldsmith Bros. Smelting Refining Co. that otner members have jus* 3S large a silver business in pro portion to lead and that the Eoard could not grant them a privi lege not extended to other members. If the Company still could not see its way clear tc subscribe to the support of the Associ ation on a tonnage basis, then it was to be dropped from the membership rolls. MEDICAL RESEARCH The Treasurer reported that the Harvard Medical School will need a fund of $3,000 for the twelve-month period beginning September, 1940, to continue its fundamental studies In lead. In addition, $500.00 had been sent to Dr. Aub for the purchase of radio-active lead, beyond the sum of *1 ,000 allowed in the budget for 1939. L IA 0 C'9 <M It was regularly moved, seconded and carried that the Harvard Medical School be provided with $3,000 to cover its lead research from September, 1940 to September, 1941, $1,500 of which was to be taken from the balance on hand as of January 1, 1940 and that the special expenditure of $500.00 granted the Harvard Medical School in Mav be aDDroved. Board of Directors Wee"- in? *7 ~KJ'~ June 6, 1940 A suggestion from *ur. S. E. Whiting, Vice President of the liberty jiutuai Insurance Company of Poston that the Lead Industries Association prepare a booklet for physicians on the treatment of lead poisoning was presented, as per Exhibit WB" attached. After discussion, it was decided tha^ action on this suggestion be deferred for the time being as the American Public Health Association vms planning to revise its book let on the diagnosis and treatment of lead poisoning. The Secretary requested the advice of the Board on a suggestion that the Association hold another meeting of plant physicians and surgeons discuss lead poisoning. After discussion, it was decided that the Secre^arv ascer tain frvn the various member company plants how many would like to have a meeting on preventative measures rather t'-'an medical aspects of lead hygiene and that a :nee*;j_ng 0f physicians and surgeons could be postponed because of the numerous medical symposiums on lead that had been held during the last twelve months. LUO C244  Board of nirectors Meet ing gxpT'Dj'r n^n June 6, 194 0 pirpQp^ op Ttpp SECRETAEV PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES Because the subscribers t--> the v'hite Lead Promotion rogram and the ? lurch ire and "'aI4-*e*r 'forks Promotion Program h.ave been re ceiving reports of our procress periodically, tnere is no need here in duplicating the record. I would, however, like to call the attention of the Board to some lead hygiene problems. LEAD HYGIENE (1) Provision for 1940-41 research Our budget for 19 40 provided for the sum of $1,00^ to car: on L'r. .tub's work at E arv ard up to September of this veer. In a recent conference with Dr . Aub and Dean Eurv/ela of the Harvard Medical school of Best on, Dr. Aub tells me that he would like to count upon a fund of $ 17 o 00 for the twelve-month period beginning next September to cont inu e his fundamental studies in lead. He has been using conside nb le radio-active lead products in his re search that are oroduc el a~ rvard's nee cv :lotron, wh: ch is rather exuensive to op `.e, In fact, he n -eded funds for the yjrcna se o: Cnairman ne [a1 ' ?umi, -r after consul4-a ;ion with t with .00 to carrv him to Seotemb er, There is no need of my oointi g out that Dr. Aub's research at Harvard has lean of inestimable importance to us. Without the counsel he has gi'.'en tr.is office and active assistance in some of our lead uroclems, we v:ouid indeed be at a serious disadvantage. It is a source of satisfaction to me and I hope to the ^oard, tr.at Lerd Industries Association has a fine re out at ion at Harv: ra *- Cj D'j Vo 2_ He' xth Service in Washington, and in Cincinnati, three of the mo roor^ant loc? _ities for fundamental work or. lead hygiene. I should like to have the approval of the Board to furnish the Harvard Medical School witn 3,000, beginning September, 1940, (01,500 for the remainder of 1949^. This would mean that our budget this calendar year, for medical research, would be 5,090 which includes the $1500.00 we already supolied Dr. Aub. Our case, balance is sufficiently large not to require any new financing to meet this request of the Harvard authorities. () Liberty Mutual njfe Insurance Co. We received a suggestion from the Liberty Mutual Life Insur ance Company which was circulated to our Board on April 10, sug- ` gesting that we orepare an autr.oritative leaflet on the treatment of lead poisoning for the use of doctors. I conferred with Mr. Whiting, the Vice President of the Liberty Mutual Company and Dr. Aub in Boston recently on this suggestion. Dr. Aub feels it has considerable merit but the difficulty is getting some one with the available time to prepare an authoritative document. LIA0024 ^ yjf? N 588.01 Board of Director: Meeting EX'TITT "A" Tune E, 194 C REPORT X THE SECRETARY T also learned from Dr. Aub tnat the Committee on Lead Poisoning of the American Public Health Association is ccan ning 2 revision of its bulletin and I expect X confer vita Dr. Eehoe, the Chairman of the Committee, + o see if his oro- spective publication would fill the recommendXXr: mace by Mr. Vfr.i 4 v\ In the meantime, I should like to have the orrnion of the sard as to whether tr.ev feel sponsorshi > on +r.e oa: + the ->ead Industries Association of an authorityjve lea: 'Ici on lead hygiene might be advi In this connection I v-ould like to point out that we tried an experiment last year of meeting one lead poisoning issue squarely, namely, lead poisoning from lead -e-m r* Piim v lines. A uaoer oreoared bv us anc oe_: before Xe N*' : nrland Aster 'forks Association which franks" discussed this subject, our comments had teen carefully checked by Dr. Aub and by Dr. F- irheli of the u.S. ?ub_ic He itr. Xrvlce as veil as s-'me leading voter vorks engineers. Trie Oi ,u*t v.ss hirt.lv sstis- factor" an-' " ::eve com el omen tec on ou: Irani ecus; er rs there is lesson _r. vhicu might be utilised in meet ing some of our other lead poisoning criticisms. (c) Co .cian; A conference of member comoany chysician: surgeons .s held in Chicago in the Fall of 19T". ! r" c. ' me chvsician; of member comoany feels it mighf ce rsirat^e hold another conference in the near future. I should like to have the LI AOCrtAb EXHIEIT "E" June 6, 194.0 COPY Liberty Mutual Insurance Company 17b Berkeley Bt. Boston, Mass. April 3, 1940 ~ e c r e tarv Lead industries Association 43''' Lexington avenue 1 York, N.v. Re: Treatment of Lead Poisoning Year Mr. Secretarv: I hope you will be willing to give consideration to a proposal upon the above subject for the reason that, broadly speaking, lia bility insurance companies have no interest in the many laree indus trial processes using lead compounds than to assist their policyholders in the minimization of the lead poisoning hazard. As von already kno"-, there has been very substantial progress dnrine the cast twentv-five or thirty years in the minimization of the decree of exoosu e to lead absorption itself produced by various tyoes of what we call "engineering revision" of the lead-using orocesses themselves. However, there are still occurring enoogn genuine cases of industrial lead poisoning to give the problem.of lead poisonin? a continuing economic importance. The efficiency of the medical treatment of individual lead poisoning cases is evidently an Important factor in this situation. ^or the industrial plants of such size that a competent lead toxi cologist can direct the medical treatment, excellent results are being Detained in reducing the total days of disability almost to the vanishing point. In contrast, where the average practicing phy sician handles the lead poisoning case, the treatment or even ihe oenuine diagnosis of tne lead poisoning is often handled inefficiently. The basic research on lead poisoning that was sponsored by your As sociation (or the National Lead Institute ?) and conducted at Harvard University by Dr. Joseph C. Aub, et. al., has proven of very practical value in the efficient handling of acute lead poisoning, as I*have noted in repeated specific instances. Since the publication of the Harvard lead poisoning research in 1926, many additional studies on the subject have been made by members of the medical profession and have been published in medical liter ature. These have included proposed methods of diagnosis of incipi ent lead poisoning, statistics of the frequency of poisoning cases in particular processes and medical treatment of active cases. Attempts have also been made in particular cases to apply medical prophylaxis against lead poisoning under a given concentration of exposure (pre sumably only slight exposure) of which I might mention offhand (1) the daily ingestion of ammonium chloride and (2) administration of certain vitamins. L IA0C2A 7 (Continued) N 588.02 Board of firectors '.lee4:! ng -b- (continued) Liberty Mutual Insurance Company EXHIBIT "B" June 6, 1940 In this present-day situation my feeling as a lavman is that the ':orker.' in lead industries who become s-rnehwat poisoned therefrom mould be substantially benefitted if all of the ohysicians who treated their cases could have available for consultation on authoritative and concise yatexient of the present medical consensus of opin'on on lead ooisoning treat ment. I refer, of course, not to the lead toxicologists but to the average physician '"-no necessarily handles so many of the cases of this tyoe in the numerous smell plants that have ::^me form of handling lead or * ts compounds. ?fith the e,7erir.creasing knowledge ever".' pnysician needs for fhe treatment of his oatients, I susocd that, many of them are not. t oresent f-miliar ritn v.hat your narvard _ead res ear cr. demonstrated in fhe .-elation of calcium metabolism and lead poisoning, yet sucn Knowledge raav be vital, T have been told, in the treatment of extremely acu^s ^esd poisoning. Of practical value also ma*r b*. s~me of the other .more recent medical develooments in this field. Li7 seed fic proposal for -'ojr cons id s or ship by your r.seociation of a brochure c. of Lead -cisoning prepared jointly by sever toxicologists of your ov.n selection. Once cub11shed, efficient distribution thereof c purchase by the iiabiiit.v insurance compani of vour association and in other manner the self to vou. afi'n is the s pon ded ical Treatment . outstanding lead his pamphlet were Id be made through , member companies might sumrest it- Insurance companies as such cannot aporopria4`elv sponsor such a medical practice undertaking since d does not lie within the score of our business. If you ure 'er not to soor.sor the undertaking yourselves, would you care to consider the possibility of arranging for sponsorship throu gh the Council on Industrial Health of the American Medical Association? Very trulv ?rours, S. E. WHITING (SIGNED) Vice President Sc Consulting Engineer L i*00 2*P 14+0 Poerd of Cirectors Meeting Reoort of the Treasurer January 1 to Ma^ 21,1940 Exhibit "C" June 6, 1940 ash on Hand and in Bank, January 1, 1940 RECEIPTS .Vi t rn b e r. hip :ubscri otion: Ordinary Fund Plumbing Promotion Fund Lumber Products-Better Paint Campaign Fund 'rhite Le~d Promotion Program Fund Total Receipts $24,075.92 16,774.66 12,056.58 137,654.68 546,643.9?(a) 5190.541.84 TOTAL $237,190."6 DISBURSEMENTS ORDINARY FUND: Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment Salaries Ren4: and light Social Securiittyy Taxe: Office Supplies --r.eous Traveling senses Association Dues FrJertainment and Luncheons Telephone nd Telegraph Books and utscrictions Printing Viline~ "Lead"'(b) Illustration nesr-rchi Advances ?LTJM?TNC- PROMOTION FUND: salaries Traveling Expenses Drinting Mailing ~ "Plumbers' Forum" Association Dues Entertainment and Luncheons Conventions and Exhibits (c) Advertising Seal of A.poroval Inspection Miscellaneous 5 486.4? 12,196.70 1,913.61 339.88 343.88 367.23 524.09 82.75 30.61 309.22128.17 449.25 352.o7 2,930.63 36.36 1,500.0 425.00 $ 2,481.98 $3,854.20 3,841.96 43.08 205.31 2,148.91 65.00 333.26 1,789.24 2,621.59 22.48 260.41 $15,185.44 Less previous advance accounted for 300.00 5 14,885.44 (continued) LIA0C3AQ N 588.03 Up ~ ^ c* T ^ r~ r`cr'+-nj*'< (cm4- inued ^ Be sort o:' t::e Treasurer ' r> > - ^ t t t * t0 <- - > - 7T SBC:-: bill ENTS (Continued) V yh i b 41 v ^ " June 6, 194' 3p.r"nTTC'"J-?T:'rr'rT'E? D>.T'JT CAMPAIGN FIND: Sa.Ie.rie5 Travel!nr Expenses ?rJ nt ins: Mailing En + m4" ieetnt ml mncheons Cmventims ei "xVr,un V ^ ts (c! -r ' , , r + r +- ~r Misc : ' c . ,-H T T r- V /-> .*`V - O . . ... C 101 ] s 4,751.00 4,131.84 33 .87 108.6 293.86 1,033.61 6.. L 1 .'< "I 66.54 ISC.00 r-^ - > -yi r-' 4 psr opn.,*;0'T'I0N D8HGE!'}* FUND: ,Fixtures Ecuioment Traveling Expenses ^r.t - rt i men4: and r;rts} ryr, *. 8. > w` _ 306.4c 3,620.D 3 ,140.53 lie.4 'f 1 s c e J_r n e ou; ''lead" (b) _ i u s ^ r m i on 4-H Clue Advert!si ar bonce T e ^ CO' 'i"1 ^ Yeeriv Contract Credit mvlicit;r Production A d v ar]ccs ill,lie.6 1,831.60 1.^03.18 99 .If 1,751.95 ^- , -**' o `- c l,501.f8 54 . 740.01 .03,5ci .39 4,118.30 10,385.66 ocn nn 138,919.7^ Accrued Taxes, January 1, 1940 909.58 Total Disbursements ri88,0.OP Cash on Hand and in Bank, May 31, 1940 FOOT-NOTES 48,970.74 itp'zr? i on rrp t.. Cx 1 J W# ' a'! $3,00.00 of this amount earmarked for Sheet Lead Promotion, b) Includes printing, mailing an: miscellaneous expenses entailed in oublishing n^ead.n White Lead Promotion Fund charged with tne additional expense of the enlarged magazine. (cN Includes expenses incurred at conventions and exhibits includ ing advertising in convention programs, but excluding field reoresentatives' expenses. The following subscriptions were outstanding as of May 31,1940, and are not included in the receipts above: Ordinary Fund Plumbing Promotion Fund 375.00 555.00 L IA 0 C 2 5 n V'hite Lead Promotion PimH ^,W2.84* * 3,516.40 of this amount has been received since May 31, 194400. , % ** *