Health of the War Worker
1942-04 1942 1940s 44 pages establishment of a health service for every factory, and special laws to deal with new diseases and dangers. The trade unions nationally are in the strongest position to take this up, and union branches should give full support and encouragement to their national executiv...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Labour Research Department
April 1942
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| Summary: | 1942-04
1942
1940s
44 pages
establishment of a health service for every factory, and special laws to deal with new diseases and dangers. The trade unions nationally are in the strongest position to take this up, and union branches should give full support and encouragement to their national executives to move on these matters, through Parliament, by representations to the Government, and by initiating research and publicity on the special health dangers of their own industries. For example, the recent Medical Research Council inquiry on the causes of silicosis might never have been undertaken without the initiative of the South Wales Miners' Federation. The Medical Officer of the T.U.C. should be consulted by the national trade unions on such mattters [matters] more often than is now the case. L.R.D. Industrial Health Committee This pamphlet does not cover all the main issues affecting Industrial Health — for example, it does not deal with compensation, rehabilitation of workers after sickness or injury, industrial health research, or the special problems of such non-factory industries as mining, building, and shipbuilding. If further information is needed by your organization on any particular point, the Labour Research Department's Industrial Health Committee will be glad to help and advise you. This Committee, consisting of Socialist doctors and industrial welfare workers, has prepared this pamphlet on the basis of the many inquiries on industrial health matters already received by the Labour Research Department. If you find the pamphlet helpful, you can help to extend the work by informing the Department of your own organization's activities on health matters, your successes and difficulties, so that we can pass on your experience to others. Remember that Britain's man-power is limited: we cannot afford to waste and exhaust it by ill-health and fatigue among the workers. Healthy working conditions in the factories are a vital part of the fight of the labour movement for production and the speedy defeat of Fascism. 38
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