The Cordova daily times., 1921-03-31
MINE BUREAU ADVOCATE OF
 SAFETY FIRST

WASHINGTON, March 31.-Plans for the bringing together of the thousands of miners trained in first aid and mine-rescue work by the bu- reau of mines into local safety chap ters which would form component units of a national parent organiza- tion, the Joseph Holmes Safety Asso- citation, were developed at a meeting of the association just held in Wash ington. At the same time this legion only organizations of it's kind in the world, will serve as a living, stirring, deed-doing memorial to Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, first director of the bu- reau of mines, and popularizer of that pulse-quickening slogan, safety first"
 Present at the meeting were repre-. sentatives of the American Institute Of Mining and Metallurgical Engi- neers, the American Mining Congress, the United Mine Workers of America the American Federation of Labor. the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Mine Inspectors Insti- ute, the American Chemical Society, the National Academy of Science, the American Ceramic Society the Society for the Promotion fo Engi- neering Education, and the United States bureau of mines. The presi. dent of the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association was directed to appoint chairman, and the president of the National Safety Council, the Ameri- can Mining Congress, the National Coal Association, and the United Mine Workers of America, and the director of the bureau of mines were requested to appoint members of a committee of six to prepare detailed plans for the organization and con- duct of the work of the safety chap ters of the association, supervise the organization and conduct of the work of the safety chapters, and safeguard against duplication of the mine-safety work of any organizations at present working in that field.
 It is the hope of the promoters that the various local safety chap. ters in the mining communities of the country will constitute the means of bringing together the miner and the mine officials as common workers in the great cause of making safer the operation of the 35,000 mines, quar- ries and smeIters in which a mil lion men do their daily toll. It is proposed that the local chapters shall encourage their members to take first-aid training, eXpound at all times and ia all places the gospel of safety first, and hold meetings at regular in tervals to discuss methods of in creasing safety, good sanitation, and maintenance of health. The local SAdpISiS VIII dASO serve dS TGCT6d- tioual centers, and are expected to provide the place and occasion for numerous interesting events of so, cial and welfare nature. The consti. tuition to be drafted for the govern. ment of local chapters will restrict their activities to safety and recrea- tional lines. Inspectors will visit the local chapters from time to time for the purpose of reviewing the work of the chapters and stimulating enthusiasm for the safety cause,
 Approximately 50,000 miners throughout the United States have been given thorough training in first aid and mine-rescue work by the bu- reau of mines, and frequently local and unattached safety societies have been organized in mining towns fol- lowing the training. With no practi- cal means of following up the work, however, the enthusiasm of those trained would naturally slacken with the passing of time. It was felt that there was real need of a well-organ- ized national association which might keep alive the interest aroused by the training work of the bureau and it was considered that the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association was best