Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-03
CONVENTION TO
ESTABLISH WAY
TO AVOID PER|Ls
Many Newark Business Men
Will Attend Manufacturers
Annual Meet in N. Y.

A number of local business men who
are members Of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers will attend the
sixteenth annual convention of that
body to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria,
New York city, on May Is, 16 and IL,
The primary object of this gathering
will be to establish a concerted effort
among the members to reduce the great
number of Industrial accidents occur
ring annually in this country. During
the three days of the convention an ex-
hibit of accident-prevention devices Will
be held at the hotel.
The fact that casualties resulting
from industrial activities have finally
reached a stupendous total annually,
with corresponding human suffering,
loss of national efficiency and of prop
erty. has made accident prevention the
most important problem now confront
ing the industrial world.
VIII Reduce Mortality.
The Forthcoming convention of the
National Association Of Manufacturers
will be used as the means for a great
gathering of manufacturers and others
interested in accident prevention and
w. SOiiPCticdtiO th6hy "a $50
largest Industrial corporations as well
as the rank and file Of manufacturers
are actively cooperating with the asso-
citation, and the result undoubtedly will
be a distinct advance in practical
efforts to reduce Industrial waste of
iifeo limb and property.
1t is planned to devote considerable
of the conventions time to this par
ticular problem. An important fea-
ture will be n comprehensive report by
the associations special commissions
ers. F. C. ~Schwedtman and James A.
Emery. who have recently returned
from an exhaustive investigation of
accident prevention and relief methods
practised in Europe. This report,
which the association has prepared In
book form with innumerable colored
charts and diagrams, is devoted in good
part to Germany's twenty-five years
of successful experience and Great
Britain's rather unsatisfactory efforts
along similar lines, also the findings
and recommendations Of the commits
sion with special reference to the
United States. Several addresses with
lantern slides will also be given. John
Kirby. jr., president of the association,
VIZ ido tdhCh Gil dttiNO lCoNC ohiP ~
this important campaign, ~ describes the
movement as follows.
Theory Must Give Way to Practise.
1.-THE purpose of the work is primarily
educational, but we have now reached
a point where theoretical discussion
must give way to practical demonstra-
ton which will result in the prevention
of accidents as far as human energy
and intelligence can bring it about. !
The whole plan as comprehended by
the National Association of Manufac-
turers Is to afford all classes, the pubs
lie, the workman and the employer, an
opportunity intelligently to readjust
existing conditions to the END that in
dustriai accidents will be reduced to a
minimum and the injured or incapaci-
tated given the maximum relief from
every dollar expended for that purpose.
In hat rests the main problem.
zone of the most surprising and i'm ;.
portant facts brought out by our COM
m~issioners in their reports which form
the basis of our book, Accident Pre-
vention n Relief Is that German
workmen receive practically twice as
much from each dollar expended as the
American workman. In other words
there is a so per cent. waste in indus
trial relief as practised In this coun-
try. OF each dollar expended in Ger
many the workman receives " per
cent. In America this percentage is
less than 40 per cent Not only is 1t
a direct loss to the workers, but 1t is
also poor business. 1t implies either
poor management or unsatisfactory
laws and certainly demands a change
in conditions. and it is that chang, the
association is e~ndeavoring to bring,
about beginning with u forthcoming
convention"