The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-05-20
FOR EMPLOYERS
AND PLOYEES
Employers and Workers to Gather at
18th Annual Convention. of Ma
tional Association of Manu-
facturers.

New York, May 1Q.-Several thous-
an demployers, factory superinten-
dents, managers and workmen, from
every section of the country will gath
er at the seventeenth Annual Conven-
ton of the National Association of
Manufacturers of the United States at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York
City on May 20, Il and %. The con-
vention will mark the opening of the
greatest constructive campaign ever
inaugurated in this country to improve
q tn deficiency of American industrial
methods by educating both workers
and employers. The employers, their
assistants and the workmen will meet,
for instance, on the common ground
that industrial accidents are their mu-
tual enemies.
Anon gthe special features which
have been arranged for tn eoccasion
are three motion picture films, each
of which has it's own lesson on the
cause, effect and remedy. The first
shows the occurance of an accident in
factory with its attendant injury, and
the logical effort of the casualty both
upon the worker and his family and
relatives. This film has been especially
prepared TO rthe National Association
of Manufacturers and will be followed
by film showing the practical appli-
cation and use of accident prevention
devices Oh a great number of machines
in the plant of the Brown & Sharp
Manufacturing Company, of Provi-
dence, Rhode Island The pictures
prove as clearly as would a personal
visit of inspection to any plant the
practicality of adopting remedies for
at least seventy-five per cent of the
total number of industrial accidents
which ocur nthe United States every
year.
The third motion picture film is en-
titled "Insuring Safety at Sea-" and
comprises the results of a careful in
vestigation into the field of practical
life-saving apparatus, as promoted by
the various transatlantic steamship
companies The pictures also include
some of the latest and most adaptable
forms of rescue apparatus whic hare
of particular interest at this time.
This convention will be the first of
series which the Association will
hold primarily TO reducational pur-
poses, on the question of promoting
industrial efficiency. For more than
two years past the organization has
been actively engaged nthe field of
accident prevention and compensation
for the workers; during that period its
Committee on Accident Prevention and
Workmens Compensation has COM
pensation has completed and published
in book form the results of an ex-
haustye first hand study of the var
ious European safety appliances, and
systems of workmen's compensation
Insurance. The work has been widely
( commended and it's recommendations
have rendered valuable assistance to
the numerous State Commissions con-
sidering the subject for purposes of
legislation. The Committee has also
ainen mnoh personal assistance to
, these bodies and will make full re-
port at the convention.
Besides the motion picture films
there will be arranged in the Colonial
Room of the hotel an Accident Proven
tion Exhibition, consisting of almost
1000 photographs. a large number of
working models of safety appliances
and the greater portion of the safety
at-sea apparatus shown in the motion
trial Commission has contributed to
pictures. The Wisconsin State Indus
the Photographic exhibit, and the
United States Steel Corporation has
arranged an extensive array of work
ing models from its various plants.
The transatlantic steamship COM