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'XLtwglJf**:!:'.!" W â- wrrrw.'-TSr :â- ?» '•>l9!Ki»^s i< hi iiii>niirfn â- !â- â€¢'• .1 fc^'ini'^^ SO SAYS W. H. CAMERON 5 fhere Are Eighty Thousand People in TWs Country Who Are Social Liabilities Ow- ing to Blindness. iPliiiPiliPiVfi From thirty to thirty-Are thousand wage earners die from work accidents to the United States every year. There ,re eighty thousand people In the United States who because of unnec cese ry blindness are social liabili- ties instead of social assets. Two million men are seriously injured werv year. Employers paid twenty- two million dollars In liability Insur- ance premiums last year. These are a few *f the startling facts which Mr. William H. Cameron gave at the Cur- rent Events class at the Evanaton Congregational church Sunday. It was a most informing talk. Few ad- dresses given at the class have been as instructive. Mr. Cameron is an expert on the matter of the prevention of industrial accidents. His address yesterday was part of a number of papers he read at the National Safety congress recently held in Milwaukee. Mr. David O. Robertson, presided. Be indicated that governmental legis- lation had placed the tax for accident anon the employer and he showed that many accidents were due to the workingman's carelessness or thought- lessness. Then he presented Mr. Cam- eron as the best versed man on this topic of industrial accidents in Amer- lica. Average Value fa $600. Mr. Cameron said that the average man's value is $600 a year. ISach worker in iron or steel stands for an engine or an industrial plant worth 110,000 producing at 6 per cent an in- come of $600 yearly. The death, then, of an average workman is equivalent to the destruction of a $10,000 mill or engine. He continued: "The records of the commissioner of labor of the United States shows that 35,000 workmen are killed in Industrial accidents each year, or one every fifteen minutes of every day in the year, and the injur- two million every year, or one •very sixteen seconds of every minute of every day of every year. This loss of lives is greater than that of any one year in the terrible Civil war through which we passed fifty years The casualties chargeable to the rail- roads is about one-tenth of the deaths lad one-sixteenth of the injuries, and wfciie the number of men killed *nd Injured on the railroads has been ap- ftuling, you will see that they are chargeable with only a small portion these disasters. It may be Inter- esting to yon to know that over SO Per cent of the deaths attributable to ndljfoads are caused by trespassing lad it may be a greater surprise to ron to learn *aat the persons killed are not all tramps. Twenty-five par ess* are children, and the problem of cutting down the accident* to tres- passers is one of the moat diflcult the saiisty departments of fhe railroads have to contend with. There are no laws In the states through which the railroad authorities can prosecute trespassers and stop the custom, al- though the time is about ripe for ac- tion along these lines." Have Good Scheme. Mr. Cameron described in detail how the American steel foundries had worked out a most excellent scheme of preventing accident*. Up to two years ago the steel corporation pro- tected Itself against money losses from accidents by employers' liability poli- cies. Then it discovered that It could control to some extent the frequency of accidents among its employes. A general inspection was followed by the installation of many safety appliances. The next step was the appointment of working-men's committees. Three men from each department gave four days each month to inspecting the plant to see how the men might be better safeguarded. They were paid full wages while doing this inspection and paid $5.00 additional for their re- ports. The next step was the engag- ing of men who gave all their time to safety work. Then followed the scheme of instructing the men. "Safety first," was the motto. Every applicant for work is physi- cally examined by the company's sur- geon. Probably 50 per cent of the ac- cidents of the steel foundries affects the eyes of workmen, so the men are given lectures on *ow to care for their eyes. The ordinary layman ought to visit Gary and see just what the steel corporation Is doing to make practically impossible industrial acci- dents. An animated discussion followed. Mr. Frank McCulloch, Mr. Otto Brio- son, Mr. Frank Elliot, Prof. H. H. Kingsley, Prof. Harper took part in this discussion. »* W. C t. U. CONVENTION WAS ENTHUSIASTIC ONE come address, declared that^he was In hearty sympathy with the alma and objects of the W. C. T. tf.* HI* rigor- ous campaign for law enforcement is heartily approved by the bast men and women of Oregon and his strong, fearless utterances on this topic were cheered to the echo by the great audi- ence. Campaigns for state-wide pro- hibition and for suffrage In several Btates furnished themes of lively in- terest. A large gain [p. membership was reported and all departments of work* reported encouraging results. Many Meetings. The White Ribbon special, on which the majority of the officers and dele- gates returned, made frequent stops at important points, receiving many courtesies and holding manjN public meetings. At BoiBe City, Idaho, where Sunday, Oct. 27, was spent, many churches welcomed W. C. T. U. speak- ers for the morning services. Large meetings were also held in Oregon and Colorado. 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