TOLL OF INDUSTRY
._ ♦ —— PREVENTING ACCIDENTS Australian Press Association —United SerTlOß, GENEVA, Ist June. Sir Granville Eyrie (the Australian. High Commissioner) made his debut at the -International Labour Conference in a speech on industrial accidents'. He commended the British war wounded, of whom . there were 17,----i 000,000, while in tho first five-year period after the war industrial casualties numbered 2,400,000. This appalling toll was only romcdiablo by scientific prevention. Probably much of it was duo to tho failuro of the human ele•nient, because nowadays ; almost as much was spent on machine guards, as on perfecting the machine itself. Tho conference- began a discussion on a world-wide safety-first campaign of co-operation between employers and employee.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 9
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113TOLL OF INDUSTRY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 129, 2 June 1928, Page 9
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