PAG SIX THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1928 The Prosperity Tailor CLEANER DYER DYEING, CLEANING PRESSING REID Propietor Industrial Safety chine tools, power presses, Negro Inventions baking, woodworking, boot Devices and shoe, and printing The folowing paper machinery, and boilers and read before the forum at was (By Joseph Martin)
other steam plant. Two platen Gatun at its regular meeting In every country where inprinting machines show how the hands of the operator on Thursday last January dustry has developed the prob.
26th :lem of the safety of the can be kept away from the workers has arisen, soon or point of danger, while a third Ladies and Gentleman of late, in an acute form. Modern is fitted with an automatic The Forum. machinery is so complex, it feeder which eliminates feedI am before you tonight fo now performs so many funcNo. 6, 19th Street Central Avenue ing by hand. In the laundry the discussion of Negro Intions that were once regarded section, amongst a number of ventions. Though cannot as depending entirely upon PANAMA CITY other most ingenious devices, hope to do justice to my subhuman hands and brains, Telephone 695 part of a plant is shown with ject in such few words as. if left in an unguarded condirollers which, in the past, have have prepared, shall try to tion, it is a source of the greatcaused terrible injuries to present a few striking exam.
est danger to all who have to hands and arms; now this pars ples of what we may call a deal with it. Fortunately, with is fitted with a rail which stops part of the Negro contributhe invention of machinery to the machine if the hand is tion to Science.
OF THE HIGHEST ORDER perform more and more drawn too far forward. In the Let me begin with Benjadelicate industrial operations.
case of a pneumatic garment min Banneker, a noted negro there have been provided press, the risk of crushed fin astronomer. Benjamin Banmore and more effective safeWork Done While You Wait gers is avoided by a device neker was born Free, Novemguards against industrial acwhich demands the employ ber 9, 1731 in Baltimore, Md.
cidents.
ment of both hands outside the He received some education in In this particular field Great danger zone in order to bring a pay school. He early showed Britain can justly claim to be TRY US AND YOU LL BE SATISFIED the press into operation. an inclination for mechanics.
in the forefront of the indusNot only does the museum About 1754 at the age of 23.
trial nations of the world. Suc.
include the latest and best with imperfect tools he concessive British Parliaments Alter tions and Repairs at reasonable Prices safety appliances, but also structed a clock which told the have made laws to compel plant and appliances which time and struck the hour. This.
employers to provide safety apLadies Garments carefully handled have been found to be danger my friends, was the first clock pliances on their machines and ous in actual use. In the elec constructed in America.
to adopt sanitary and hygienic trical section, for example, The first negro to receive a methods in their factories and there is a case containing all patent on an invention was workshops, as a means of rekinds of defective apparatus Henry Blair of Maryland, who ducing the risk of industrial which have been the cause of in 1834 and 1836 was granted accidents and disease to a patents on a corn harveste.
minimum. At the same time According to Monroe Work of many individual employers the Negro Year Book Blair have voluntarily spent vast is supposed to have been a free sums and the greatest possibles, negro. number of inventions YOSSOWS SES Woo osas sekso eforts to prevent accidents. But were made by slaves. It ha: in spite of all that is being been claimed, but not verified.
done the position demands says Mr. Work, that a slave still greater improvements.
either invented the cotton gin, During 1926 there were 806 or gave to Eli Whitney who British workers killed and obtained a patent for it, valu139, 157 injured by industrial able suggestions to aid in the occidents in factories, at the completion of that invention docks, during building operaIn 1858 the Commissioner of tions, and in miscellaneous ocPatents ruled, and the Attorcupations; and by far the ney General of the United greater proportion of these acStates concurred, that a slave cidents occurred in the faccould neither take out a patent tories.
on an invention, nor assign his invention to his master. Mr.
So as to cope more effective Work tells us that the samo ly with this problem, an atquestion came up in connection tempt is now being made to with the invention of a boat impress upon both employers and employed the still greater propeller by Benjamin Montgomery a slave of Jefneed for more and better ferson Davis, President of the safety devices on dangerous Confederacy. Having unsucmachinery, and for the exercise of greater care by the (Continued on page 7)
workers concerned. Before the war it had been decided to fatal accidents.
These are establish a museum in London merely a few instances, of for the demonstration of safety what may be seen in the exmethods and appliances. hibition, but they serve to inspacious building for this purdicate clearly that the most pose was provided, but it was strenous efforts will be made unfortunately required by the to impress upon all concerned military authorities and was the need not merely for caution not available for its original upon the part of the workers, purpose untl quite recently, but for the provision by emwhen, as the Home Office Inployers of the most up to dated dustrial Museum, Westminster, appliances and safety devices it was opened by the King and on dangerous machinery.
Queen as a new and valuable It is hoped that among those permanent exhibition.
who will visit the museum will The first impression on en.
be designers of factories and tering the building does not at all suggest that of a museum.
machinery, and pupils fro.
UO the teachnical schools and the There are drilling machines, University engineering schools.
lathes, textile machinery, It is also hoped that in the grinding machines, laundry future, in addition to drawing equipment and the like, a:1 upon what is done in this counactual machines and appliances try, the museum will be able as they would be installed in to show what other countries a factory or other place of are doing, and everything pos employment, and they are supsible will be done, of that we plemented by photographs may be sure, to keep it up towhich show a wider range of date.
protective methods. Short tolon notices in simple language.
stating the nature and pur.
STURDIER BRITISH CHILposes of the safety devices inDREN troduced, are attached to the (Continued from pace 3)
exhibits; and power is available so that the machines can strides have been made during be seen in movement.
the past few years, and progress is steady. In this particIt is obviously impossible to ular field of national developdescribe in detail all the various types of machines thus Ahad ment and it is perhaps the most important field of allbrought together to illustrate British educational authoritie: the best methods so far known are doing a great and benefito the Home Office for procent work, and there cannot be, tecting the industrial worker.
the slightest doubt that the But in addition to those already money they are spending is mentioned they include maమ 000 well spent.
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