. Labor problems and labor legislation . oyees, andtechnical experts in the various industries arecalled together by the state industrial commis-sion to draft rules which shall achieve this re-sult. After public hearing these rules are issuedby the commission, and have the force of the experience of the worker, the interestof the employer, and the constructive ability ofthe trained technician are welded together in aco-operative effort for Safety First. Furtherencouragement is given to this movement by therapid spread of workmens compensation laws,which make all accidents costly. L8i]
. Labor problems and labor legislation . oyees, andtechnical experts in the various industries arecalled together by the state industrial commis-sion to draft rules which shall achieve this re-sult. After public hearing these rules are issuedby the commission, and have the force of the experience of the worker, the interestof the employer, and the constructive ability ofthe trained technician are welded together in aco-operative effort for Safety First. Furtherencouragement is given to this movement by therapid spread of workmens compensation laws,which make all accidents costly. L8i] HealthChapter Fife N OT only must industry be made rea-sonably safe from accident, it must bemade free from preventable disease aswell. Occupational Disease Reporting In the absence of widespread laws for work-mens health insurance, we have no reliable dataon the amount of sickness in the country whichis attributable to industrial causes. In 1911California enacted the first American law re-quiring the reporting of occupational DOUBLE WRIST DROP. Hands of workman paralyzed for sixteen years as a resultof lead poisoning. Five of his fellow workmen died. [83] LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION Within five years, as the result of vigorous andsustained effort, sixteen states enacted similarstatutes. Yet the results from these laws havebeen meager. They have been useful mainly asaffording occasional clues to individual plantswhere further precautions should be taken. Forthe country as a whole we must still depend onestimates. One group of experts concluded that,on the basis of 33,500,000 persons gainfully oc-cupied, no fewer than 284,000,000 days illnessoccur annually, causing an economic waste ofnearly $750,000,000. Fully one-quarter of thisenormous waste, they computed, could be pre-vented by deliberate effort, largely in the direc-tion of greater care and cleanliness in the na-tions workshops. Causes of Occupational Disease The causes which give rise to diseases so cl
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