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FILE NAME: Worthington Pumps (WP) DATE: 1938 Feb 28 DOC#: WP001 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Published Article from Newspaper INDUSTRYTO WIDEN PLANTHEALTH AIDS SjvcialluTUPN'MYYOKK IIMFS. KmKm* Toms|MiF-Omw./HW. Feb2. IMS; PwQku IfeimkalNiwqupiTiioNe YirrkTimcMIXSI-MiJl INDUSTRY TO WIDEN PLANT HEALTH AIDS M anufacturers Association Ap points Com m ittee on W ork ing Conditions BIG UNITS TO H E L P SM ALL Purnell H ead s C am p aig n, W ith Dr. H eiser, Author of `Doctor's O dyssey,' ;as C o n su ltan t S p ecial to T h e N ew T o r s T im e s. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. --Big industry has moved to extend the health benefits developed for workIers in large manufacturing estab lishments to smaller plants which have not had the time or money to install them, the National Associa tion of Manufacturers announced today. Charles R. Hook, president of the National Association of Manufac turers, reported the appointment of a nation-wide committee on health ful working conditions. Standards approved by such agencies as the American College of Surgeons, the National Bureau of Standards and the National Safety Council will help guide the work of the com mittee. " One of the prime objectives of this new committee,'* he declared, "will be to make available to the small and medium-sized manufac turer the benefit of the experience and study of others in this impor ta n t field." The committee has Frank Pur nell, president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, as chair man, and H. C. Beaver, president of the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, Harrison, N. J . f as vice chairman. Dr. Heiser Is Consultant Dr. Victor G. Heiser, author of " An American Doctor's Odyssey," is consultant. A general advisory committee to be selected from experts will be headed by Dr. W. Irving Clark, personnel director of the Norton Company, Worcester, Mass. "During the past twenty-five years," said Mr. Hook,, " there have been many developments which im proved factory working conditions. Accomplishments in this direction stand among industry's foremost achievements. Naturally, the most rapid advance has been achieved in the larger companies which could afford to devote time and money to the intensive study of working conditions and the development of medical services." Those who have accepted member ship on the main committee include W. A. Anderson, president John A. Roebling's Sons Company, Tren ton; Robert H. Cabell, president Armour & Co.; S. Bayard Colgate, president Colgate - Palmolive - Peet Company, Jersey City; P . O. Geier, chairman the Cincinnati Milling Machinery Company; Carl C. Gibbs, president National Malleable and Steel Castings Company, Cleveland ; A. B. Hansen, executive vice pres ident Northern Paper Mills, Green Bay, Wis. ; Aldus C. Higgins, presi dent Norton Company. Others on Committee Also W. G . Marshall, vice presi dent Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, P itts burgh; Ernest Muehleck, president Keashey & Mattison Company, Am bler, Pa. ; Charles B. Nolte, presi dent Crane Company, Chicago; Louis Ruthenburg, president Servel, Inc., Evansville, Ind.; W. L. Settlemire, assistant to the president. Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company, Mount Vernon, I1I.;H. S. W herrctt, president Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.; James C. Self, president Matthews Cotton Mill, Greenwood, S. O.; F. B. Davis Jr., president United States Rubber Company, New York City; August Kochs, president Victor Chemical Works, Chicago; W alter J. Kohler, chair man of the board, Kohler Company, Kohler, Wis. ; Alvan Macauley, president Packard Motor Car Com pany; Hiram S. Rivitz, president Industrial Rayon Corporation, Cleveland, and Blaine S. Smith, president Universal Atlas Cement Company, New York City. Sionol Ihocopyright i Further reprodti