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FILE NAME: Norton (NORT) DATE: 1938 Feb 28 DOC#: NORTOIO DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Newspaper Article - Industry Plans to Widen Plant Health Aids I SOI SIKV i n w i m s H \ M u t w \\\ \\\) \ \ \ \> im - m w you K n vihs v > i f>* / K ' f M i ft t ' * IM k J l l ^ u , | ^ \ (W(k, I l f>* \ !** NDUSTRYTOWIDEN i PLANT HEALTH AIDS M anufacturers Association Ap points Com m ittee on W ork ing Conditions B IC U N ITS TO H E L P SM A LL Purnell H ead s C am p aig n , With Dr. H eiser, Author of `D octor's O d y s s e y / <as C o n su lta n t S p ecial to T h e N ew York T im e s. W A S H IN G T O N , F e b . 2T. -- Big: industry has moved to extend the h ealth benefits developed for w ork ers in large m anufacturing estab lishm ents to sm aller plants which have not had the tim e or m oney to install them , th e N ational Associa tion of M anufacturers announced today. C harles R . K ook, president of the N ational A ssociation of M anufac tu rers, reported the appointm ent of a nation-w ide com m ittee on health ful w orking conditions. S tandards approved by such agencies as the A m erican College of Surgeons, th e N ational B ureau of Standards and th e N atio n al S a fe ty Council will help guide the w ork of th e com m ittee. " One of the prim e objectives of this new com m ittee," he declared, " will be to m ake available to the sm all and m edium -sized m anufactu ie r the benefit of the experience and study of others in this im por ta n t field." The com m ittee has F ra n k F u inell, p resid en t of th e Y oungstow n Sheet and Tube Company, as chair m an , a n d H . C. B eav er, p re sid e n t of the W orthington Pum p and M achinery Corporation, H arrison, N , J., as vice chairm an. D r, H eiser Is C onsultant D r. V ictor G. H eiser, au th o r of " An A m erican D octor's O dyssey," is consultant. A g en eral advisory com m ittee to be selected from experts w ill be headed by D r. W Irving C lark, personnel director of the N orton Com pany, W orcester, Mass. "D u u n g the p ast tw enty-five years," said M r. H ook, " th eie have been m any developm ents w hich im proved factory w orking conditions. A ccom plishm ents m this dnection s ta n d a m o n g in d u s tr y 's f o ie m o s t achievem ents. N atuially, the m ost la p id advance h a s been achieved in the largei com panies w hich could affo id to devote tim e and m oney to the intensive study of w orking conditions an d th e developm ent of m edical services." Those who have accepted m em ber ship on the m ain com m ittee include W. A. Anderson, president John A. R o e b lin g 's S o n s C o m p a n y , T r e n to n , R o b ert H . Cabell, p resident A rm o u r & Co ; S. B a y a rd C olgate, president Colgate - Falm oiive - F eet Com pany, Jersey City; P. O. G eiei, c h a u m an the C incinnati M illing M achinery C om pany, C arl C, Gibbs, p tesid en t N ational M alleable ancl Steel C astings Com pany, Cleveland, A. B. H ansen, executive vice pres iden t N o rth ern P a p e r Mills, G reen Bay, W is ; Aldus C. H iggins, presi dent N orton Company. O thers on Com m ittee Also W. G. M arshall, vice p resi dent W estinghouse E lectric and M anufacturing Company, Fittsb u ig h , E rn est MuehJeck, president K eashey & M attison Company, Am bler, F a .; C hailes B. N olte, presi d en t C iane Com pany, Chicago; Louis R uthenburg, president Serve!, I n c , E v a n sv ille , In d ; W . J->. Sottlem ire, assistan t to th e president. M ount Vernon C ar M anufactuung C o m p an y , M ount V e rn o n , 111.; H . S. W heirett, piesident P ittsburgh Plate G lass Co ; Jam es C Self, p resident M atth ew s C otton Mill, G ieenw ood, S3 C .; F . B. D a v is J r . , p ie s id e n t U nited States R ubber Company, Now York City; A ugust Kochs, president V ictor Chem ical W orks, C hicago; W alter J. K ohler, ch an m an of the board, K ohler Company, K o h le i, W is ; A lvan M acaulcy, president P a c k a rd M otor C ar Com p a n y , H ira m S. R ivitz, p resid en t Industrial R ayon C orpoiation, C leveland, and B laine S. Sm ith, p resid en t Univexsal A tlas Cem ent C om pany, N ew Y ork City. R r ptj u t x J wun 0c **16* o' tf*. owi>et fu rth t eprodu 1 * il oot yetnus^ 0 1