The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-11-20
$500 have ALREADY seen
SAFETY FIRST EXHIBIT
Show Managers Are Pleased With In
terest Taken by Harrisburgers-
Welfare and Efficiency Conference
Will Be Held Again Next Year

If last night increase in the at
tendance at the safety first exhibit in
the Chestnut street hall is any indica-
tion of the increase for tonight, the
last night, a record crowd will view the
EXHIBIT. Twenty-seven hundred admis-
sions were recorded yesterday, num-
Der almost double the day previous.
SO far more than $500 persons have
seen the show.
The show, which is held in connection
with the welfare and efficiency confer
ence, will likely be repeated again
next year, as John Price Jackson, Com.
missioner of Labor and Industry, yes
terday announced at the closing session
OF the convention that conference
would be held next year. Already
manufacturing firms are engaging space
for next year.
The show has been a success from
the start, although it was crowded in
hall much too small for it. What was
lacking in size was more than made
up in interest and the show managers,
as well as the exhibitors, are pleased
with it. A concert by Updegrove's IS Or
chestra will be given again tonight.
The show will close at 10 o'clock.
The closing session of the Pennsyl-
vania Industrial Welfare and Efficiency
Congress, held in the House yesterday.
afternoon, was presided over by James
Maurer, president of the State Fedora
tion of Labor, and in taking the chair
Mr.. Maurer paid high tribute to DR..
John Price Jackson, Commissioner of
Labor and Industry, and his force, who
have contributed so largely in making
the department a success. The depart
ment, Mr.. Maurer said was one that
ought to be highly appreciated, and
the sincerity of its official is highly
commended by organized labor. From
the Commissioner down to the lowest
department attache all are eager to
serve, and he hadn t single criticism
to make. Mr.. Maurer deplored the fact
that there are not enough deputy in
spectors to conduct the work along
broader and more efficient lines, and
said that so men could not be expected
to do the work.
Mrs. Samuel Semple, of Titusville,
gave a most interesting talk concerning
the Pennsylvania Industrial Board
from woman IS point of view, and was
followed by F. H. Bohlen, secretary of
the Industrial Accidents Commission,
who gave his views of what working
men, s compensation law should be. He
advocated the control of State insur-
ance fund for at least two years. F.
II. Walker, of Beaver Falls, represent
ing the manufacturers, maintained that
there should be State fund to be used
in the payment of such compensations,
but this was opposed by Carl NJ. Han
son, of New York, representing the
New York Commission Bureau, who said
State fund could not be established.
Francis Feehan, member of the State
Industrial Accidents Commission, spoke
earnestly in the advocacy Of an indus
trial accidents law, and remarked that
the next Legislature would be certain
to enact one of a satisfactory character
in view of the defeat Of the one pro-
posed in 1913.
Commissioner Jackson announced
that another conference will be held
next year in this city and expressed the
hi highest satisfaction at the success of
the one just closing. He asked that
the delegates go home and profit by
the discussions Of the past three days.