New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-18
TO COVER FACTORY RISKS.
National Association OF Manu-
facturers May Adopt Insurance.
PRIZES TO PROMOTE SAFETY
Kirby, President. Declares His
Belief in Need Of a New
Political Party.

/ The subject CT the prevention of indus
trial accidents, with the nearly related ques-
ton Of the liability of employers. engaged
the attention of the National Association
/ of manufacturers for the greater part of
yesterdays session of the fifteenth annual
meeting at the Waldorf.
In the report of the committee on indus
trial indemnity insurance, the most bulky
1 committee report of the present convention.
/ 1t was recommended that the president and
directors of the association be empowered
10 establish a mutual contributory insur-
ance concern. which should cover the four
chief risks of employer and enploye-ern-
/ ployer's liability, accident, sickness and old
iage indemnity. The recommendation went
| 10 the committee on resolutions, and viii
be brought out for action to-day. The plan
/ IS TO establish an insurance concern, not
as financial risk of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers. but es a mutual
contrfbutory organization. and to make
the corporation elastic enough TO permit
OF the receipt Of voluntary contributions
to the sickness. old age and death insur-
ance phases of its business.
Prizes for Safeguarding Employees.
This committees report contained also
the recommendation that an annual prize of
S10.0o9 be given by the association each year
to the inventor of the best safety device
designed for the protection of operators
in manufacturing plants, and another prize
of s1o0oo be given each year as an award
TO the manufacturing plant which should
be judged the safest establishment of its
kind.
Action on the above recommends ton, it
was said yesterday. was likely TO take the
! form Of memorial fund n 20
named for James ". Van Cleave, former
president of the association, the fund TO be
raised by members of the association, and
the two annual gifts to be designated IS
the Van CIeave prizes for safety devices
and for safe plants.
Professor Frederic Remsen Hutton. OF
Columbia University. gave an address. with
Illustrations, showing the possibilities OF
safeguarding operators on manufacturing
machines. and Henry L. Resented, of the
Equitable. and Miles NJ. Dawson, of the
New York Life. spoke briefly on compensa-
ton for industrial accidents.
John Kirby. jr., president of the associa-
ton, presented his annual report yesterday,
and IN it he recommended the suggestions
Of the committee on indemnity insurance.
Mr. Kirby commended highly the appoint
ment of Governor Charles E Hughes to the
Supreme Court bench.
Time for New Political Party.
As to political matters in general, how
ever. Mr. Kirby declared that lie believed
the time had come for the formation Of
new political party that should voice the
sentiments of Fremont and Lincoln, and
which should gain power enough to hold
the balance between the two existing par
ties Of strength.
He condemned the recent law passed IN
Massachusetts authorizing peaceful picket
ing and declared there could lot be any
such thing as peaceful picketing, and he
took 3 little fling at Samuel GcmPers, pres
ident Of the American Federation of Labo2,
whose type, he said stood condemned by
public opinion.
The committee on merchant marine. with
its report, recommended that the associa-
ton continue it's hight for the plan of ship
subsidies The Panama Canal, reported
this committee would be completed by the
United States without an American mer-
chant ship to gain the benefit OF it.
George H Maxwell. for tho committee
on forests and irrigation. suggested as one
measure of forest growth and preservation
york that growing trees, not matured'
should be eliminated from the taxable as
sets Of property. For the development OF
rivers and harbors the committee urged
that all possible pressure should be brought
TO bear on legislators for survey of reser-
yoir sites on the Allegheny and Mon0nga-
hela rivers and for the enactment of the
pending White Mountain and Appalachian
National Forest bill, now before Congress,
At o'clock yesterday afternoon the con
1-ention adjourned its business session and
convened in a memorial service fer James
u 5-a,, .-7eave who was buried Yesterday
in ST. Louis The Rev. s. Edward Young,
of the Bedford Memorial Church, Brooklyn.
conducted the service and delivered brief
,,77iogv of the former president of the asso-
citation. The sessions viii end with din