Bulletin Of The Department Of Labor Volume 7 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Bulletin of the Department of Labor and Industry, Vol. 7 Another careful piece of work done under the direction of the Industrial Board during this time was the result of statements of certain organizations that the Woman's Law and the Child Labor Act were being freely disregarded in Delaware County, one of the busiest industrial counties of the state. This complaint came to the Industrial Board from the Woman's Section of the State Safety Committee. A number of women inspectors, under the direction of the Woman's Division of the Department, were sent into Delaware County to check up the whole situation. Reports of findings were submitted; violations of law were called to the attention of the Inspection Bureau for correction; and communication with the Department of Public Instruction and with the Public Service Commission took place on the basis of certain findings. The sweeping nature of the charges which started the special survey of Delaware County proved to be by no means justified; yet the Board was glad to have the opportunity to olier a more intensified Departmental service to any section of the state. Incidentally. The desirability of viewing the industrial life of a county unit as a whole was illustrated. The Board was also instrumental in making brief surveys of the labor supply available in certain sections as the demand for labor increased; and followed with interest the work of certain Chambers of Commerce in the state along the line of recruiting available labor. One very important section of the work of the Industrial Board has from the first been the issuance of Safety Standards for the industries of the state. At the time when the country entered the war several of these Standards were under consideration and others were in contemplation. Beyond completing those which were almost finished, the Board decided to do nothing further during war pressure in the way of developing standards, except as they might be demanded by special conditions arising out of the war. As an example of these special conditions the manufacture of explosives loomed large. This was a field in which scientific know ledge and business management were in a state of flux; so that with the best will in the world Standards of exact and lasting value could not be promulgated. Six months time would probably render work in that line obsolete. It was possible however, to keep before those industries the advances in safety practice, and that was the policy pursued. In some instances strenuous objection was met on the ground that the exigencies of the war could not brook possible loss of time in attention of safety details. That opinion was met by the obvious truth that ex plosions such as wrecked certain plants in the state (altogether aside from the loss of life involved) were a far greater hindrance to war equipment than time taken in safety measures could ever be. In one instance the Federal government was called in to assist in demanding safer practise when the pressure of federal war contracts was urged as excuse for defying Pennsylvania safety requirements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.