Trade Union Advisory Medical Officers
1920 1920 1920s 9 pages obtaining of such degrees and diplomas and experience for self-advancement. Those who have experience of the present system of hospital appointments will know how experience, especially in specialities, is rapidly obtained by young surgeons in hospital by devoting all their e...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/D8BC8549-A15C-40F6-92DD-4070A5653585 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/CD5DC635-20FF-4C2F-8138-BF246702F361 |
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obtaining of such degrees and diplomas and experience for self-advancement. Those who have experience of the present system of hospital appointments will know how experience, especially in specialities, is rapidly obtained by young surgeons in hospital by devoting all their efforts to one particular subject. The same result would be obtained in the case of a Trade Union appointment. The experience gained in the working out of the scheme would be more valuable in proportion to the enthusiasm of the officer appointed for the success of the work. Such an officer will quickly devote himself to such a study, and knowledge of Industrial Medicine and Surgery in all its phases and aspects as would redound to the credit, not only of his own growing reputation, but to the Trade Union movement as a whole and in the industrial wisdom and insight displayed in such an appointment. If as a start, the Trade Unions of the Triple Alliance, viz: The Miners' Federation The N.U.R. The Transport Workers either separately or in combination, or in association with such other unions as The Dockers The Amalgamated Engineering Unions The Workers' Union The Municipal Employees' Association The Shop Assistants' Union The Postal Workers and many of the other large Unions, subscribe less than £100 a year, the nucleus of the medical staff of the Labour Movement could be laid. Even if only an advisory medical appointment were made in the first instance, leaving the ordinary medical and surgical examinations to be done as it is at present, it is suggested that the necessity of the scheme and the improvement in the outlook of those who now control medicine and its teaching would soon be made manifest. GENERAL STAFF OF THE LABOUR MOVEMENT. 1. For some time, many profound thinkers in the Labour Movement have been urging in season and out of season the creation of a General Staff for the Labour movement as a whole, so that the work, specific and general, of the different departments, different Trade Unions, different Alliance Groups and the different societies may be co-ordinated and linked together for the better central organisation and advancement and leadership of Labour. 2. It is very important that in the consideration and creation of such a General Staff, the formation of a Medical Section should be considered. While with some sympathisers in the Labour world the question of Medicine and its relation to the general body of workers may be considered as of comparatively small importance, the omission of such a medical section from a Labour General Staff would, it is submitted, be a great defect in the organisation. The following questions with which the Medical Section would be competent to deal wih are enumerated:- (a) International Medicine. (b) General imperial merical [Medical] policy. (c) General National Medical policy (1) Special medical questions relating to particular places and seaports and cities. (2) Medical aspects of special industries (National Industrial Medicine) (3) Hospitals
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