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REPORT OF THE .MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE C. E. RALSTON.' Chairman Thirteei, rompanie- hav affiliated will, the IVji.danpi. thus far this **i. They arc: - ... Corhart Htfractorit.- Company General Movers Corporation Hazel-Atlas Glass Company Internationa! Business Machines Company Merck A Company Miamisburp Paper Company Michigan Mutual Liability Company . . Neville Company Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company Plaskon Company Pyrene Manufacturing Company Standard Lime and Stone Company Toledo Edison Company Two of the above are old members who dropped out..during Jean years Mt/renewed .-their memberships. during.-lMl. :Me*nwhile.fooroompanies . hsigned during-the .year- " J: will be impossible to make a full report on memUrship work until '.* cm3 of the year. A campaign for new members is now in progress and have' reason to lie optimistic al-out its results. Mr. Lewis H. Brown, Resident of Johns-Manville Corporation, w-hich has heJJ mcmlwrship since ~t Foundation was started, has kindly agreed to assist us in the undertaking. Tit campaign has been necessarily held up by the fact that the Foundation n? been in the process of changing its name. That change was advocated r the Membership Committee, a* well as many other persons interested in sat Foundation, at the meeting here one year ago. After circularizing the eml-ership, and after the due processes of the law, the change from Air Hygiene Foundation to Industrial Hygiene Foundation became official only wcntly. In fact there are still aome final legalities to be disposed of at a Msiness session here today. Increasing industrial activity tends to increase health hazards--end at 1 time when the nation sorely needs maximum manpower. Therefore, the 'wk of the Foundation is more important now than ever before. It helps mpanics keep precautions apace with production. which is the only way ** can offset the increases in sick absences and occupational disease which *vitab)y accompany an increase in the industrial tempo. In endeavoring to fulfill this important function--keeping precautions * Mep with production--the Foundation i# performing more and more field for it> member companies. Dunng the pa?; year our industrial '-:z;er.;st, Mr. llallette. covered approximately "5.000 miles in making plant 8n,j "trouble shooting" where new prn-e.-r? Mere being installed. " ne materials introduced with questionable health cfTr-cts. furvey work performed in seven state- In August, the naff hygienist flew 2.700 miles in three day? covering Uirenor. Pltttburrh Plate Glaai Company 137 J2--