Workmen's Insurance and Compensation Series (Volume 15)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25--MORNING SESSION. CHAIRMAN, FRED M. WILCOX, WISCONSIN. BUSINESS MEETING. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-TREASURER. At the Columbus meeting of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, held in April, 1916, I offered to bring out the proceedings of the conference as a bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, if the association so desired. The advantages of having the proceedings published and distributed free of charge by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were obvious and the offer was accepted by the association. At the same meeting, I, as United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics, was chosen secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions because of the great advantage of having the publishing and distribution of the proceedings in the hands of the secretary and because, by vesting this office in the United States Commissioner of Labor Statistics, the association secured the benefits not only of publication free of expense, but of a central national secretariat possessed of great resources for acquiring information useful to the accident boards and compensation commissions and of the right to disseminate such information under the L'nited States Government frank. The reasons for placing the secretaryship in the Bureau of Labor Statistics seemed to me sound at that time and I think the changing of conditions has brought out more strongly the indispensableness of having the office of secretary of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions located in Washington and vested with all the rights, powers, and prestige of a Federal bureau. I accepted the secretaryship of this association only because of the grea...