I am enclosing with this letter copies of letters written by the Executive Secretary for the Asbestos Information Association (AIA/N4).

I am enclosing with this letter copies of letters written by the Executive Secretary for the Asbestos Information Association (AIA/NA).

(British Council and FMSI Canada members send to your respective associations).

And Abex responds to them based on 8 their historical knowledge, and you verify 9 those answers by reviewing them and making sure 10 the information contained therein is - 11 A.

KENNEDY & ASSOCIATES UCAREF00012852 7 1 A.

Yes. 10 asbestos information association?

J.O.Ross were elected to represent the Association on the-new Steering Committee.

Myers, former Product and Production Manager for asbestos (Calidria) has provided much information.

Abex further objects to these interrogatories to the extent that they make no distinction among exposure to raw asbestos fibers, exposure to asbestos-containing building products and exposure to asbestos-containing automotive friction products.

Please state whether or not you have ever held a certif icate of authority to do business in the State of North Dakota and the date thereof and the address of your principal place of business and whether you have assumed the assets and/or liabilities of any predecessor corporation or entity (such predecessor corpora tions being limited to any association whatsoever with the asbestos aspect of the Defendant's business).

Collis who states in part that-- Following up information received from the it registrar was found that five deaths of persons suffering from phthisis had occurred in five years among a staff of under 40 workers employed at a factory where asbestos is woven The process which appeared most dangerous is the production of asbestos mattresses These mattresses which are composed of bags of woven asbestos filled with short asbestos fiber are placed on a table and beaten out flat by a man with a wooden flail from which process much dust arises Women who sew the mattresses into sections with asbestos threads worked close to the man who beat the mattresses and of necessity inhaled the dust The reorganization of this process with the application of localized exhaust draft was called for and an annual medical examination of the workers by the certifying surgeon has been instituted in the hope of detecting and removing from exposure to dust those showing early signs of respiratory discase Weaving asbestos has only become an important Two other industry during the last large asbestos factories 15 years were visited each of which was found to have its own specialty in the production of which dust prevention is required The Department of Labor bulletin contained numerous pleas for research on health hazards in the growing asbestos industry The rapidly increasing development of industries using asbestos as ascertained from domestic or foreign sources suggests the urgency of more qualified medical consideration than has hereto- fore been given the subject _ Hoffman also noted that there was no medical literature available on asbestos diseases from the Surgeon General's Library the U.S.

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Union Carbide's answers to these interrogatories are based on information known to Union Carbide at this time.

Collis, who states, in part, that--> Following up information received from the .

H, Merenesa Executive Director Asbestos Information Association 1835 K Street, N.W.