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/ 0J i i {^ PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT IHF-485 REPORT OF .MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE C. E. RALSTON,* Chairman Eleven new members affiliated with Air Hygiene Foundation dur:aj . put year. The -new members are:- - =~i- AUegheny Pittsburgh Coal Company American Mutual Liability Insurance Company Caico Chemical Company Colorado Mining .Association Industrial Tape ^Corporation Liberty Mutual.Insurance Company Maryland Self-Insurers' Association Powers X-ray Products, Inc. - Pullman Company Rustless Iron and Steel Corporation Toledo Scale Company .' .-..Meanwhile,', eleven ,companies failed to renew.-their 'membership * January', With;the business upturn--increased production creating- :r-r- --> need for health' protection--a number of these companies are exp.-x:-: - return to the fold. ) a. While the resignations balanced the additions, maintaining '.hr - *. membership at 225 companies, there was an increase of about $>(>< a .---w in income. This is accounted for by the fact that most of the comp.m:-- resigned were small firms. Six of them were in the S30 a year -- whereas most of the new members are larger companies in the higr.-T ' bracket. As Dr. Meller has announced, there has been a pronounced incr-a-- * the Foundation's survey service to its members during the year. Thu * significant development. It links the benefits of Foundation more firmly with every-day plant operations. An industrial concern -* does not know its health hazards, or its lack of them, and have this ml tion in a scientific, specific form, is like a company that does not kn<- ** costs. Industrial hygiene surveys are simply inventories. Like invent "~r* they must be made periodically. The advantages of such a procedure *"* manifold. In case of claims, you have a record showing what the health -'* actually were at tho time of alleged injury. That is. you have th:e / _ tion if you have been making periodic checks over a period of t:"a' _ report you receive Iron) the Foundation removes the "rues* v.--r speculation as to whether there was or wasn't a hazard at the tin:*' ' tion. Further, as Mr. Fletcher pointed out here a year ago. a ' ' from an outside. independent agency carries more weight in Court >r a compensation commission than does a report prepared by your <"r' In other words, an outside parry can talk with greater weight than you can talk about yourself. You all know man's rapacity for spreading rumor, how talcs gm Snf^ty LMrvctor. Plu^burph Pint* Gins* r^mpnny. 6 ) 14^-(S~. /* /} n} fiyo