Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-18
TOLL OF INDUSTRY
AROUS|NG PUBLIC
e, 600 Lives Lost Annually
and $500, 900 Hurt
in Accidents.
By HARDEN C0LIFAx.

s.-at VI 49, - y 4
If industrial accidents could Re
eliminated in the United states, q
sum equal to the Federal tax reduce
tons which brought such Joy last
Spring would be saved every four
months for the American public,
while tragedy would be banished
from the thousands of homes it en-
ters annually by this door.
1t was in an effort to find means
of bringing to public attention the
costly toll of life and limb exacted
by industrial activities, and thus lead
to remedial action, that Secretary Of
Labor Davis summoned the indus
trial accident prevention conference,
which was held here this week.
The public eye is attracted by a
published statement that automobile
accidents in the United States last
year Cost some $4,000 lives and
caused bodily injury to several hun-
dred thousands of persons, and the
public tongue wags. Traffic police
crate regulations govern travel on
the most remote rural highways.
Vast Toll Of Industry.
Yet accidents In manufacture.
transportation and agriculture last
wear ore aafSrnata.y - I,a,,s $500
"a 0,o Tvas ~ - - =. a,sss 80
steal ninTv II > IN, az, nsrso ~
and Industrial accidents were claim
.ns .nslr ton many years before the
streets. 81
A billion. dollars year is lost in
wages on account of Industrial &C.
cidents, according to another estimate
slveh ~ SecretaTy LAWS conference.
zig u me ACTORS Wnicn lronpie
sue,s VIZ mo1iu dppeaSe the pubic
so ~, Tesafoihs THIS moustrlai
wi 70 tnat 50 HlaHy Hsures neces-
Sariy must De given as estimaIes.
hhere are no accurate national stalis-
~. A y consluereo essen.ial Inal
aScluenl nsIre ps gatnerea ln uetal;
1aS.s.. ~ sluuu ~ syp 80 an ~
dona results its q n,ohabiv WI mint -
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ga o,,eI, , ...-1 s,sc,, .,at;st,cs e,-''S,,
anu go 8 sucn stasass
Uslng oecretaTy LAWS estiina 1.
s ne % pel 49, u $3.50 ~.
u l. aIe pIe s's9s - a.e.:. Ir.,s
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lne - H is. anu 800. 81 a.. 49,.
WI. - non a,.s i, i,,,..S rea6,essiv
iesSiy sA'iu ''V0V - : ''et = .-'e1's''''.'
z Not q New Subject.
Ird,,strta, safety 20 not . new sI,b-
iact Int # Is one which has been
: ,,,,.oa ebed onlv In snots IN an or.
81 a;zeJ y,srner Trans,ortation and
$3.50. st.,,d o,,t &c ind,,stries which
,awa hsd safetv' annliances thrust
upon backward members by legisla,
ton; Ies as.o s,a,,s ,.,,,oaS S, M ana
exist 1etWs s" q - $500, Tactorias
petW VS., iilllles s,s au a. :" che nnml,er
OF the sas csass a;S..t. Acc;Sants
ana sever,sy y 49, : ias. ac,,ivaIent
In coa4 ines cs.use az, 49, 49, 1877.
10 8 or ~ PEI cenI =. a ..at 800
ing time VI Ing 80 - -
mines nave Isae u ieSs tAie'li
OF per cent. .,.,. ta.r
Large empowers. - 100. - :,
active safety calnpaAs - .aaS =. s.ts,
and instah the Dest lnecls 1880.
devices that can g Iou l,a, $500.
The United States 0.oel 49,.
ton, for instance, mas reuuceu 80.
Gus accidents 10 per cent, savins 7
$4,000 men from serious injury anu
322, 900 from disabling minor INJURY
il the old rate had Desn . cons,nur1 N
- YY.{tn6 kS%atas only uer cent en-