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of the century Some progress was also made m such matters as guarding and fire preven tion 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 the United States Steel Corporation, wrote "The United States Steel Corporation ex pects its subsidiary companies to make every effort pracbcable to prevent injury to its em ployees Expenditures necessary for such purposes will be authorized Nothing which will add to the protection of the workmen should be neglected " The Association of Iron and Steel Electncal Engineers, organized soon after this announce ment, devoted considerable attention to safety problems in its industry Birth of NSC Then, in 1911, the year in which the Wis consin Act was passed, a request came from the Association of Iron and Steel Electncal 5