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and the reduction of rates on machinery.

Today (1952) the number of workmen's compensation compensable accidents due to machinery is infinitesimal compared to the accidents which are what we call slip, fall, stumble and falling bodies. The machinery is pretty well guarded. People don't get hurt by machinery. There can be a bad accident, but they fell off the roof, or the boxes were improperly stacked up and a couple of heavy boxes fell and hit three or four people and they broke their arms, legs or had a fractured skull.

The insurance companies did a good deal on all this. It is true that there were automatic deduction in fire insurance rates for some of these things.

The architects were one of the early groups that came to the support of all these ideas that were just mulling through the Factory Investigating Commission. We were really exploring what the situation was and what could be done about it. Mr. Robert Kohn, who still lives, was a very eminent architect. At that time he was quite young, but he'd already made a very considerable dent in architecture. He foresaw industrial development enough to know that as a rising young architect the whole field of industrial design would be important. As factories increased in number and as mergers took place and big factories took the place of little