Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-14
BRYANT DEFENDS
HIS MANAGEMENT
Continued from First PaseJ

to loss by fire because of neglect OF
ordinary precautions; whose output
is below trade standard because OF
the lowered efficiency of his workers
due to poor ventilation and lighting
and the inevitable occupational in
temperance which results from insani-
tary trade conditions. is at a serious
disadvantage in the business world
ut is equally true, however, that
with the growing recognition of the
States duty to safeguard those who
are helpless to protect themselves. the
dictates alike of humanity and JUS
tice counsel continued and unremit-
ting efforts to conserve New Jersey
the unimpaired vigor of its 364, 600 in
dustrial workers.
State Owes Protection.
Turning to the question of State
problems confronting the department
Mr.. Bryant comments:
Economic questions aside, the
State owes to its workers who are, to
great degree, helpless to protect
themselves, a constant humane policy
of protection; which shall diminish
those unnecessary accidents, indus
trial deaths and occupational dis
|
countries has proven are a needless
| loss and sacrifice of childhood, wom-
anhood and manhood to q false idea
| of social economy. New Jersey is not
only a leading manufacturing State,
but a State competing with aggres-
slve competitors under many artifi-
cial trade disadvantages. Many of
its factories are old, often enlarged
and frequently remodeled, but still
presenting dangers to the worker
from the standpoint of fire risk,
crowded machinery, due to increased
business carried on in narrow and
inadequate rooms besides many of
the dangerous trade processes Incl
dent to our remarkably varied indus
tries"
Jerseys Fatalities High.
The report states that at is esti-
mated that $1,000 widows and $4,000
orphans are annually created by
industrial accidents in this country
and of this number New Jersey sup
ports q disproportionate share. The
victims of occupational consumption
| found in practically every buffing
| grinding and polishing room which is
without blower protection, and in
nearly all trade processes exposing
the worker to flint, clay, stone, metal
pearl, flax, cotton, and the long list
of trade dusts, are not only in dam
ger of becoming, with their families
| objects of State and private charity
| but also q source of infection and a
| menace to the community. The low
cred earning capacity or utter help
lessness of victims of lead, mercury
arsenic and other industrial poisons
the mutilations of those exposed to
unguarded machinery, and the lin
gering deaths of those stricken
tuberculosis, are, reckoned in money
loss, "a serious handicap to the COM
munity. Bu+ they are more. They
are an indictment of common hui
manity and sense of justice of the
State which condones, by inaction,
the existence of evils which other
countries condemn and remedy.
"These are all problems which must
of necessity be undertaken by the de-
partment of labor. They represent
a field which demands intelligent and
conscientious cooperation between
employers, employees and the depart
ment: so that the maximum degree
of efficiency may be obtained without
the sacrifice of the worker, or the
imposing of severe and unnecessary
burdens upon the employers of the
State. In order to cope with this
situation the department of labor
has made exhaustive Investigations
and secured the assistance and coun-
sci of the very best obtainable eX-
perts In their several professions,
thereby promoting and encouraging
a successful spirit of cooperation on
the part of all concerned"