The Connecticut labor news., 1924-10-25
BY THE w A Y
Comment and Criticism SAbo,t Things
 Doing in the World.

Foes of the League of Nations like to assert that the League Is dead. The League however, goes serenely on, with every appearance of life. It positively refuses to sleep let alone die. In addition to the plans just made for gaining international cooperation to end war, of importance to every worker in the world, the League, through its In ternationa1 Labor Office, has recently accomplished labor reforms of direct interest to American workers.
 The International Labor Office, through conferences and other means, has brought about changes in four na- lions that will result if1 reducing the un- fair competition that American work CTS and manufacturers have been forced to meet from countries having an un- limited supply of cheap labor. i
 In India the activities of the Labor Office have reduced the hours of child workers and adult factory workers and raised the minimum age of child toilers in certain industries. In China the Gov ernment has taken the first steps toward the state regulation of labor conditions
 In Japan, child labor reforms have been put into effect, use of white phos- phorus in matchmaking forbidden and other steps in advance taken. The Per sian Government, at the instance of the Labor Office, has acted to protect wo- IL
 The reforms outlined above are in adequate, but they mark definite prog ress in the worldwide campaign to inn prove the status of labor and reduce United States that maintain better work ing conditions and shorter working hours. As such. they deserve the in terest of every worker.
 
 It Is a fact, sad but true, that many employers can not be induced to aid enthusiastically in safety work unless it can be proved that 1t means dollars and cents to them. This being the case it would seem to be the part of wisdom for safety workers to take the path of least resistance and show employers that 1t is to their financial advantage to prevent industrial accidents.
 C. C. Macdonald, safety engineer of a large steel corporation, found that the financial argument in favor of safety work was the most potent Writing Tn Safety Engineering, he tells of the diff faculties he encountered in securing the cooperation of all parties at interest, an declares that he was able to secure re- suits only after he had convinced the that safety and accident prevention were not separate adjuncts tagged on to the plant operation, but constituted very vital part of the op- eration itself" It took six months of hard work to bring the management to realization of the fact that 1t was entire 1ents that were constantly occurring, hereby saving much needless suffering y injured employees, as we'll as af- :ecting a substantial reduction in policy premiums.
 Tangible results began to be achieved when the management finally "let is be :lear1y known that department heads, bremen and supervisors generally would be rated as efficient and their con- inued Service desirable if they could manufacture suitable products without cost, and that accident cost would, from that time, figure promi- lently in determining the fitness of su- ,ervisors for their jobs."
 At that time, in the plant employing l,433 men, the accident rate was F per 100 employees, promising an annual ac-