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8 Tli'cnty-sfcond Congress--National Safety Council AukFi H. Su'avxe, General Moturs Cieixeation. A stuck M. Twit, Consulting Marine Engineer. W. \V. Tkcxcii. Schenectady Safety Council. \V. I). Tnoenur. San Antmio Safely Council. \Viui4u F. Venni. Rahway Safety Council. Vixcknt Wakitillp, Kansas City Safety Cunncil. r.Rdtfz H. Wamu. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Dr. C. H. Watjox, American Telephone & Telegraph Caiqoin*. Haw M. WrjazB, ItliowU BrO Telephone Cwn|njr. S. K. Wihtjxg. IJbcrty Motral Insurance Company. A. \V. WuiTxrrv. Nalinnal Curran of Casualty & Surety UiwkrwrtUT*. \V. H. WiXAsj. L'nitot Carbide & Carti Corporation. Oil C.-K. A. Wixsunr. Yale Medical SdiooL Harry Wist St, Oatlanoojta Safely Council. J. XI. WotTx. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. W. 1C WiKTii. International Harvester Company. K. J. Zacrt. Safety Jlurcau. Dnlulh Chatnhcr of Commerce. J. U. Zook. Cement Scctnn. Council Purposes and Policies The fundamental purpose of the National Safety Owned is to owenr human life. It seeks this goal through a continuous campaign of accident frcvcntkm that b nationwide in stupe, applies to ail tines of hazardous activity. and dircoiy or indircctly readies twr entire citizenry. It is a non-profit irpnintim, non-sectarian. iipI free from political affiltalkew. Since it* urganizatiiat in 1913. it itai won respect as an essential national ruithutkm. Inseparable frum accident prerentiun is the Council's uwk ni hnjwuvhig licalth cmtditkms and preventing ncatiunal diseases in American industry. Today there are UXJO mrmber*. representing every* state in the Union, and many of the Canadian Provinces. There arc 400 foreign mctnliers. Tltc mnnhershtp includes industrial corporations, firms, individual*, public officials. schools, chandwrs *t com merce. clubs and civic organisations. About 70 |r cent are industrial ootemx, inefadmg the lag steel cnmranics, the id companies, most of the railnads in the United States, the automotive industry, and others of *nut*tandinyr irrqwetancc in wir national industrial field. The history of the C*tmcil is an ahsorhmg story. Unfiutunatdy it cannot be de tailed here. Suffice t> say that the First Co-Operative Safely Oeigrcss was held under auspices uf the Association of Iron and Steel Kkctrical l*nctnerrs in Mil waukee. in 1912. and. as a resnlt. the National Safety Council was organized in. New Virk ihc following year with funrlcea mendRrrs. During the first year the member ship increased to 971. The pkawers of Amcriran safety went to work on the sound premise that accidents were an unnecessary tart of our social order and that through appliratitei of proper remedial measures tltry ondd he avoided. They set ahmjt to nationalize (his theory, and to develop the detailed ractlneis and materials through which accidents could le prevented. The mrmler* the cwgamzatbm now arc mure than ever convinced that accidents arc unnecessary and that they can lie and are facing prevented. Striking examines of reductions in rrany different fields prove this contention. Results of Organised Safety Since (be Saiboal Safely Owned was organized in 1912. the national accident death rate in all field* excepting motor vehicle has liecn reduced 42 per cent. The motor eehirle accident itrdJrm is a comparatively new one. yet there are evidences of progress. Nineteen thirty-two. for example, witnessed the first drop ever re corded in fatal motor vehicle accidents--a reduetkm from 1931 af more than 12 per rent. Keen prior to this drop in t4al Hsilh*--which was partially (he result of a decline in gandinc cnusumjition--it was apparent that accidents among commercial vehicles had decreased; that grade crossing tragedies had ctAsklcraldy decreased dur ing recent years; that deaths uf school children had decreased; that deaths in states having effective license laws with centralized administration and m cities having com munity safety council* tad increased much less than in other states and chics. These fact* indicate that the engineering, educateral. and legal remedies for the highway accident profile, are producing results where omsftcaiiomly applied. Since the National Safety Council started as an industrial safely organization, the lert result* arc to k expected in this field. Here s;cciaetdar achievements have 9