Author: Samuel Gompers

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781332273713

Excerpt from Committee on Labor Including Conservation and Welfare of Workers: Organization of the Committee, Scope and Objects, Preliminary Activities, Outline of Plans of Subcommittees, Membership List A permanent organization was formed, and an executive committee named, of 11 members. This executive committee during the first month held five all-day sessions, and developed a working plan of organization which in respect to some of the most important matters confronting the committee is ready for service if the Council shall so require. Eight national committees have been appointed, of which those whose plans are furthest advanced are the committees in relation to wages and hours, mediation and conciliation, women in industry, and welfare work, the latter including safety, sanitation, industrial training and kindred subjects outlined in detail on a subsequent page. The principle upon which these features of welfare work is based, in the committee's assigned task, is that the health, welfare, and efficiency of the workers in the vital industries upon which all else depends are fundamental resources which should be conserved in the interest of the national defense. The chairman and many of the members of these national committees are giving their time and abilities freely as a patriotic service to the Government. There are also in course of organization a number of subcommittees, through which the voluntary services of experts and technicians in several fields are available. In addition, support and cooperation have been pledged to the Committee on Labor by a large number of national and local organizations, both of labor and of industry, and representing various civic and technical fields. Among these are the American Federation of Labor, the National Association of Manufacturers, the American Institute of Architects, the National Fire Prevention Association, the National Board of Fire Underwriters, the Illuminating Engineering Society, the National Council of Safety, the American Museum of Safety, the National Consumers' League, the National Child Labor Committee, the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, the American Public Health Association, the Young Men's Christian Association, the National Civic Federation, especially its departments on welfare work, mediation, and conciliation, industrial accident prevention, and social insurance; bureau of registration and information of the National League for Women's Service, the National Association for the Promotion of Industrial Education, the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, the Washington Department of the Technology Clubs, associated; the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, and the Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania. The English experience in dealing with employment problems of the utmost gravity, which arose under the early war stress, has been placed at the disposal of the Committee on Labor by a commission of four representatives of English labor and of welfare work who visited this country in response to the cabled request of Chairman Gompers to Premier Lloyd George. The members of this commission were: Right Hon. C. W. Bowerman, privy councillor and member of British House of Commons; secretary of British Trades Union Congress parliamentary committee. James H. Thomas, privy councillor, member of Parliament; general secretary National Union of Railwaymen, Great Britain and Ireland. Joseph Davies, member of the secretariat of the prime minister. H. W. Garrod, representing labor, department of ministry of munitions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com