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the first things that was done. Henry Sayers was very good about that. He's always been very anxious to have regular meeting days of the Commission. It hadn't been opposed before. It had just drifted along. It was inconvenient. That's very easy to happen. “It isn't convenient to meet today. We'll call a meeting when I get back.” That kind of thing. It doesn't make for an ordinary calendar, or the building up of a calendar. And we kept a secretary who kept track of what was done with regard to every proposal made, every motion made and every resolution passed. If we moved and it was directed that the head of the Workmen's Compensation Bureau do so and so, this showed on the calendar. We set up a procedure whereby not only would he be informed, but in the course of at least two weeks he would be asked to come in and report what he had done in that direction and what progress he had made toward setting up the procedure recommended. It was the same way with factory inspection.

I found that they never had any meetings of factory inspectors. Each factory inspector worked by himself. There was never a factory inspectors' conference. They were all scattered as to districts.





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