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At the beginning of the First World War in Europe I was working for the Committee on Safety, which was the private agency that sprang up after the Triangle fire to be the public voice with regard first, to securing remedial legislation for the prevention of fires and other accidents in industry; second, to make continuing studies in that field; and third, to be the meeting ground of a great variety of scientific, technical, business, social work and labor groups for the development of the standards of safety in factories, to get those standards embodied in law and then to preside over their enforcement, so to speak. That is, we were striving to be the voice of the public aiming to get good enforcement.

This Committee on Safety went right on through the Mitchel administration and it was my principal activity. The immediate legislation had been accomplished and the method for carrying out this legislation through the State Department of Labor had been at least established. The