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Industrial Hygiene Digest - 17 January, 1950 . . __ 52 Pens Iona--Who? When? Hcrv?.I.The Pension Jormula. P. Beatrice Brover. : II,. Provlalana of Becent Pension PlanB, P. Beatrice Brover and A. Simsarlan III. Area-vlde Penaians--Rev Bargaining Device. J.J. Bambrick. Conf. Bd. Mgnrt. Bee. 11, 506-513 (Dec. 1949) National Industrial Conference Board, 247 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York. In the first section the various pension formulas--definite-benefit, money-purchase, flat-percentage, flat-sum types, are compared; the ' advantages and drawbacks of each are discussed, as is also the question vhat constitutes an adequate pension. The pension plans recently adopted by steel companies,. several other recent plans are discussed and tabu lated. Die third paper discusses the area-vlde pension plan proposed by UAW-CIO in Toledo, Ohio. The plan has met with serious objections from employers and has made kittle headway. They state that the plan puts all the 125 companies concerned at a disadvantage compared vith companies in other cities, and that communities will be made guinea pigs in an unproved experiment. 53 Employee Blood Banks far Security. Geneva Saybold. Conf. Bd. Mgmt. Bee. 11, 429-431, 462-463 (Oct. 1949). National Industrial Conference Board, 247 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York. A number of industrial business organizations are providing.for. needs of esployees and members of their families when they may require blood transfusion through arrangements with local hospitals .that maintain blood banks. Several plana now in operation are described, including the Bed Cross plan, which is nov most prevalent. In all these plans, the esployees of a company, or the esployees and their families, may donate blood to a hospital and have it credited to their company. When a trans fusion is given an employee (or member of his family if. Included) the . blood Bupplied is charged against the company's account. The customary charge is made for the transfusion, but the blood is free. The plan enables lists of blood types of esployees to be maintained. Details of the plan in several variations are given, dncluding the credit system, withdrawal policy, handling appointments of donors, and union participation. Skin Diseases and Burns 54 The Compensation Act and the Dermatologist. J.G. Downing, Compens. Med. 2, 21-31 (Nov. 1949) Industrial commissions throughout the country are rather loathe to accept a disease as being compensable. Hence, in many states it takes . considerable persuasion to convince these administrators that the disease can arise from injury. They readily accept abrasions of the skin with secondary infection, cuts, bruises and burns, because these conditions are not classified by the term disease, but are called by all physicians injuries. Inasmuch as most occupational skin disturbances are the result