Evening journal., 1919-08-20
MANY NEEDLESS
DE4 HIS IN PLANTS
IS P. {. o. Fat lies Last
Year Useless Sacrifice.
Price Says
URGES SAFETY
CAMPAIGN NOW

1t is possible to save seytnty-flve per
cent. Of all the persons annually killed
in this country. in industry and this
can be done Dy proper organization ana
education. according TO c. w. Price
general manager OF the National SAFETY
Council. who lectured before tie Della
ware safety Council, in the grill room
Of the Hotel dupont, last night. Two
thirds OF this conservation OF human
life Mr.. Price said, can be traced to a
nroper organization OF the shop ana 10
a campaign OF education tending TO gel
ihe men and the foremen Interested. Mr.
price said that OF the 22,OoO men ana
women killed in industry in THIS
country last year, 10000 need not nave
died Their lives were useless sacrl-
flce for. il there had been rigid appli-
cation OF safety rules in the shops ana
factories where they work, they would
have been saved The same statement
and women who were so severely IN
was true. he said, Of the $4,000 men
iured that they lost four weeks time.
This number was scventy-iiNe percent.
OF the total number OF those hurt IN
shop accidents.
He referred 10 the United states steel
Corporation. the great leader in safety
work in this country. and rported a
talk he had with the safety engineer OF
that organization the first part OF the
year. .u..
"He told me-" said Mr.. Price that
during the twelve years that the steer
corporation had devoted to safety
work they had achieved the most sat
isfactory results" Basing their esti-
mates on the loss they suffered during
the wear before safety work was in
augurated throughout the plants Of the
steel Company, he showed me that the
corporation had saved the lives OF %
OO0 workmen. More than that, they
had saved one million dollars each
wear. Think Of that, one million dol
lars OF clean velvet through their safe-
tv compalgn. Is it any surprise then,
with these figures in mind. that Judge
Gary OF the Steel Corporation, should
gel I'M before a gathering OF hard
headed business men and tell them
that the failure to start safety work Is
not only foolish inefilciency, but buns-
ling, stupid business?
Every argument that Mr.. Price used
was backed up with the actual exam
ples OF plants that got the results
they wanted by energetically pushing
safety work.
ON the practical side Of putting
safety over" in a shop, Mr.. Price laid
great stress lie insisted that il could
never be done unless the superin-
tendent. manager or. owner, 1.-The big
fellow the boss, the man who sits
behind the mahogany desk in the office
out front" was with the movement
heart and soul II he was not, said
Mr.. Price. the men would soon know;
the foreman would soon come 10 sense
that the boss regarded il only as a
fad and therefore they would not be
heart and sonl for it. However, when
once the boss was for safety. he said,
some Of the next things 10 do were to
interest the foreman, for as the fore
man was. so would be the men. and
a good foreman could always get the
worker TO stand with him in a cam
paign 10 reduce accident. Bulletins
were described, especially pictorial
representations OF striking facts in
safety campaign. as the thing to actu-
ally convince men when words, no
matter how eloquent, wohld often fail.
He said there should also be one man
at least who should be- given some
authority in safety matters and who
should be able TO visit other plants
and return 10 point out the things to
be done. Then there were the work
mems committees. lie told stories TO
show how important was this move.
Workmen interested in safety can help
enormously in the camspign. lie told
of many concerns who had found that
their efforts were greatly helped by
the recommendations made by sucn
committees and forestalled the obiec-
ton that some Of the recommendations