LABOUR CONFERENCE.
INDUSTRIAL CASUALTIES. APPALLING BRITISH TOTAL. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received .Tune 1, 7.42 p.m.) GENEVA,. June 1. The High Commissioner for Australia, Sir Granville Ryrie, made his debut at the International Labour Conference in a speech on industrial accidents. He remarked that there were 1,700,000 men in Britain who were wounded in the war, while in the first five years after the war the industrial casualties numbered 2,400,000. This appalling toll was remediable only by scientific prevention. Probably much of it was duo to the failure of the human element, because nowadays almost as much was spent on machine guards as on perfecting the machine itself. Tho conference has begun a discussion on a world-wide " safety first" campaign of co-operation between the employers and the employees.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19962, 2 June 1928, Page 11
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