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FlC 1-4 -Clippings from October 17,1913, issue of The Chicago Tribune There had also been progress on the tech nical side of the problem The railroads, which, perhaps, had suffered the most ad verse publicity from accidents, adopted the air brake and the automatic coupler well be fore the turn of the century Some progress was also made in such matters as guarding and fire prevention In the first decade of the 20th Century, two great industries, railroads and steel, began the first large-scale organized safety programs From this penod comes one of the great and histone documents of safety In 1906, Judge Elbert Gary, president of United States Steel Corporation, wrote "The United States Steel Corporation ex pects its subsidiary companies to make every effort practicable to prevent injury to its em ployees Expenditures necessary for such purposes will be authonzed Nothing which will add to the protection of the workmen should be neglected " The Association of Iron and Steel Electri cal Engineers, organized soon after this ancouncement, devoted considerable attention to safety problems m its industry 5