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- iuuiii ui me work of its committees of experts in the fie!-: i;:rr 1 safety, the Internationa! Labor Office has adopted four Draft Tre:r |iiOltif I and seven Draft Recommendations dealing with safety problems. T \'\Y treaty, of course, has the force of law when ratified by the mem:, countries; the Recommendation, as its name implies, informs member elates what is the best way to handle a given safety pro and suggests that they follow the form laid down in the Rccomnv tv lion in drafting National legislation on the subject. "Real progress can only be made with the cooperation of all p* t: --Governments, employers, workers, engineers, scientists, tea statisticians, psychologists, and others. Use must be made of rejiu'. lions, inspections, technical devices, education and propaganda. 7 further this cooperation and the use of these means throughout i) world is the task before thoSatfety Service o! the I. L. 0." ? ] bv3 ^ PAYING a tribute in memory of the late Judge Elbert H. Garformer Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, Carrri Burton, Vice-President of Carnegie-IUinois Steel Company (Lorn:: Division), addressed the conference under title of "Then and Now. Mr. fturtun traced the history of that great corporation's succe?* i the field of industrial safety from the pioneering days of Judge C r: to their present-day huge expenditure for accident-prevention w- He told of how Judge Gary instilled a feeling of safety consciousi into industry and how the U. S. Steel Corporation were among :.*^ first in industry to accept the responsibility for the methodical !; pitalizntion of their casualties. At the same time they instituted an regularized the provision of an income for the family berorm-d y fatal accident or during the disability period of the breadwinner. Tin* before there were laws to enforce or regulate these provisions fur hired employes and their households. Following are excerpts from Mr. Burton's address: "By common consent, we, of this day and generation, have co:. to understand and adopt the philosophy whereby industry is bon: and properly bound, to a responsibility for its casualties. Ccrtah an industry incapable of sustaining the financial burden of*a com; tent program of accident prevention fails to demonstrate its right exist in orcania&d society. This conclusion flows logically from \* fact that accident prevention work is an clement of production co.*-*. and if that industry's consuming trade is incapable or unwilling *.' pay enough for that industry's goods, in term3 of profit, to sustain its capital structure, it is thereby condemned to justified economic extinction. "Organized accident prevention on a large scale was first underlain hy the United State Steel Corporation in 1906.' In 1900 and again i 1008 it called together the casualty manners of all Us subsuiin: enmpunios to consider the problem of reducing accidents. At the smid of these meetings the late Judge Gary, then Chairman of i! Board, expressed U. S. Steel's seriousness of purpose when lie stated: "'We should like to take a prominent part, leading part, in an movement and in every movement that is calculated to protect m. J