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• deposition of Charles G Morgan (20 May 1975), in Herman Yandle et al. v. PPG Industries Inc. et al., District Court of Eastern Texas
• deposition of Charles G Morgan (27 May 1975), in William J Johnson et al. v. NAAC, Tenth Circuit Court of Illinois, Peoria County
• deposition of Charles G Morgan (31 October 1980), in Anthony A Barber et al. v. Pittsburgh Corning Corporation et al., Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Civil Division
• deposition of Charles G Morgan (20 February 1981), in James R Daisy et al. v. Johns Manville Sales Corporation et al., District Court for the District of New Jersey

Morgan was the former president of the North American Asbestos Corporations (NAAC).

• "Jim Walker clients" list including Geneva Eileen Mau (widow of William R Mau), Charles A Thacker, Leslie Thacker and Delora Stewart
• letter from James Walker, June 1983, including Illinois Supreme Court's opinion in Charlotte Hammond v. North American Asbestos Corporation (NAAC), filed 18 May 1983
• set of court papers:
• judgement in Charlotte Hammond v. NAAC (6 May 1982), Appellate Court of Illinois Fourth District
• opinion in Edward MacDaniels v. Carey Canada Inc. (1983), District Court of New Jersey
• memorandum opinion and order in David Brown v. Lac D'Amiante du Quebec Ltee. (1985), District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• order in Virginia Parker v. Bell Asbestos Mines Ltd etc. (1985), District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• order in Elmer H Allen v. PPG Industries Inc. (1983), District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division
• memorandum opinion and order in Jacinto and Gladys Figueroa v. Charter Consolidated plc (1985)
• various pieces by environmental consultant Barry I Castleman, 1978-1985
• annotated copies from Sumner Simpson Papers ("exhibit O"), a set of documents dating from the 1930s and 1940s and discovered during a lawsuit against Raybestos-Manhattan Inc., in 1977. The Sumner Simpson papers offer compelling evidence of the asbestos industry's efforts to cover up the known hazards of asbestos exposure
• copies of exhibits documenting Unarco and NAAC activitities 1944-1982
• key documents on asbestosis and lung cancer, 1947-1957

During his period as an industrial journalist for the 'Socialist Worker', 1972-1978, Flynn worked closely with activists from the Glasgow branch of the Transport and General Workers Union and with Tom Woolf and John Pickering, both of them W H Thomson solicitors covering lawsuits against Central Asbestos in Bermondsey, London, and Acre Mill in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire (the latter not much documented here).

Depositions from asbestos lawsuits 1975-1983 filed in Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

• set of court papers in the matter of Charlotte Hammond v. Circuit Court of Cook Country et al. (1981), Supreme Court of the State of Illinois; & Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries Limited & NAAC (1981), Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois
• photocopies of medical death certificates issued in Illinois 1978-1981
• photocopies c.1979 of papers from James Bennett's claim against the Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (Unarco) of Chicago, 1940
• photocopies of correspondence between Unarco and its insurers over occupational disease, 1952-1958
• short publication on asbestos heir Tommy Manville, 1940

• Cape/subsidiaries correspondence 1964-1972. Source uncertain (no exhibit marks, no covering correspondence)
• instructions from J L Sparks, Group Financial Controller Cape Industries Limited, to Financial Directors/Company Secretaries – all subsidiaries, 1974-1978

• deposition of Joan Holtze (12 April 1979 ), in Geraldine Ellenburg v. NAAC et al., Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois
• deposition William S Haines (8 May 1980), in Charlotte Hammond vs Cape Industries & NAAC; and Delora Stewart v. EGNEP et al., Circuit Court of McLean County, Illinois, General Division
• deposition of Max E Meyer (24 March 1981), in Anthony A Barber et al. v. Pittsburgh Corning et al., Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Joan Holtze was the secretary and assistant treasurer at the North American Asbestos Corporation.
William S Haines was a former chairman of Safety & Claims Services Inc., which did work for Union Asbestos & Rubber Company.
Max E Meyer was a lawyer employed by Lord, Bissell & Brook, who represented Cape Asbestos.

Correspondence with James Walker including copies of:

• opinion of Justice McMorrow (filed 21 October 1999), in Delores McLure v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Illinois Supreme Court
• Dr Schepers' response to Dr Case "regarding personal motives, state of the art, and Canadian workers comp[ensation] system", January 1999
• opinion of the court (filed 11 August 1998), in Delores McLure v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Fourth District, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 29 May 1998), in Marge Cameron v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation et al., Appellate Court, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 23 November 1994), in Samuel Thomas Adcock v. Brakegate Ltd et al., presumably McLean County, Illinois
• opinion of the court (filed 31 March 1988), in Clarence Craig and Duveen A Craig v. Lakes Asbestos of Quebec Ltd et al. v. Charter Consolidated plc et al., US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, reversing district court view that Charter Consolidated plc was liable under New Jersey law for the tort obligations of its subsidiary Cape Industries plc on an alter ego or piercing the corporate veil theory
• court's findings (12 September 1983), in Elmer Allen et al. v. PPG Industries Inc. et al., District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division, following non-appearance of the defendants Cape Industries plc, Capasco Ltd and Egnep Ltd
• opinion of the court (filed 1 July 1983), in Anthony A Barber v. Pittsburgh Corning Corporation et al., appeal of Charter Consolidated Ltd et al., Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Flynn's aide memoir re Charter deposition, 15 April 1983
• North American press coverage c.1965 to 1984, inc. copies of ‘Asbestos Litigation Reporter’ 1981 and photocopies of correspondence relating to asbestos industry and/or disease

Some components announced in the inscription (Selikoff 1977 interview, Steve McQueen notes, IHP notes to J Todd) not found. Components 'Brodeur' and 'LF 1982/US notes' transferred to FLYNN/2/1.

• deposition of Dr Ian Webster (12 November 1996), in Asbestos Personal Injury Cases, Arrington Lead, Civil Action No 93-9-114, Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi. Deposition taken in Johannesburg, South Africa. Webster was senior pathologist at the National Centre for Occupational Health, Johannesburg, South Africa

• deposition of Anthony Mendelle (13 November 1984), in Darlene Smith v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp, PPG Industries Inc., Cape Industries Ltd, Cape Asbestos Fibers Ltd, Cape Boards & Panels Ltd etc., Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking, UK

• deposition of Malcom George King (24 September 1979), in [unidentified court case], UK. King had been employed by CSR Ltd, Sydney, a building products company in Australia and New Zealand, since 1933

Includes covering correspondence from Robert Blackwell (research assistant to Hayden S Dent, attorney), 20 May 1997

• correspondence between Stephen A Milwid and Richard Gaze re Pittsburgh Corning litigation, 1977 (part of an exhibit, 1986). See further correspondence at FLYNN/2/2/5
• deposition of Richard Gaze (4 + 5 June 1975), in Herman Yandle et al. v. PPG Industries, Inc. et al., District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Texas
• deposition of Francis Howard (19 April 1983), in Lois Thacker et al. v. UNR Industries, Inc. et al., Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, County of McLean, Illinois

Richard Gaze was the executive director of Cape Industries.
Francis Howard was an accountant. Among others he worked for Anglo American Corporation of South Africa (North America) Ltd, 1968-1970, and for Charter Consolidated Services from 1975.

• correspondence with South African student Jaine Roberts 2000-2001, copy (2 versions) of Roberts’ Master Thesis on compensation of asbestos-related disease in Sehkukhuneland
• script of World in Action (WIA) documentary 'Death is part of the process' (1986), covering the Kinross gold mine disaster
• Flynn's handwritten notes c.1981 (chiefly re occupational health and asbestos in South Africa)
• Flynn's "WIA notebooks 1981"
• correspondence 1984-1985 re a South African asbestos documentary project ‘A breathe of death [sic]’, sponsored by BAMCWU, the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union
• South African press coverage on asbestos 1981, copies South African Health ‘Work and health’ fact sheets (n.d.)
• annotated copy of Jonathan Myers’ study ‘Asbestos and asbestos-related disease in South Africa’ (Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit, Cape Town, 1980)

Correspondence and press reports re the continuing threat posed by asbestos around the globe. Contains:

• draft presentation (typescript with Flynn's manuscript annotations) on South Africa's mining industry, possibly given at the Joint Hazards Campaign / TUC Asbestos Conference 'Asbestos still kills', April 2001, London
• correspondence including with international solicitors, expert witnesses (among them Barry I Castleman) and asbestos ban campaigners, re the plight of asbestos victims, the impact of the liquidation of assets of Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd, etc. Also includes correspondence re expert witness Richard Doll, author of 'Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers' (1955), and re plans for Doll's personal archive
• press cuttings re asbestos compensation litigation, the legacy of asbestos in the UK and South Africa, Geoffrey Tweedale's new book (with Richard Hansen), 'Magic mineral to killer dust: Turner & Newall and the asbestos hazard' (2000), medical provisions in South Africa

Correspondence and papers, Flynn's drafts and manuscript notes c.1970-mid-1980s. Includes:

• draft article on the background of George VI's lung cancer
• draft article for Socialist Worker c.1978, on the findings of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos (Simpson Committee), whose final report appeared in October 1979
• correspondence re Dr S Roodhouse Goyne, author of the first report on asbestosis ever in the UK
• Flynn's notes on the Asbestos Industry Regulations of 1931
• Flynn's notes on asbestos and railway workers
• list of key experts on asbestosis and related disease

• printouts of information from ‘Egilman disk 3’ (probably added to this file at a later stage, by either Flynn or Tweedale): exhibits from an unidentified asbestos litigation - letters from Lee B Grant, medical director of PPG Industries Inc., 1966-1974 (reacting inter alia to Paul Brodeur's series of articles in 'The New Yorker' on casualties in the workplace, 1973); copy of report 'Asbestos survey: Pittsburgh-Corning Corporation, Tyler, Texas' (1971)
• correspondence with James Walker, 1987, with extensive enclosures from NAAC
• letter from James Walker, 1986, with enclosures:
• deposition of Charles G Morgan (18 September 1986), in Geneva Elaine Mau et al. v. Unarco, Inc. et al., Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, McLean County, Illinois
• deposition of Robert Solomon (29 December 1981), in Geneva Elaine Mau et al. v. Unarco, Inc. et al., Circuit Court General Division, McLean County, Illinois
• extensive documentation of NAAC, 1954-1985