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first to help out and make these experiments in the collection of silica. I think they had an almost perfect polishing and grinding operation by the time I first got interested in this. We used to go and look at theirs to see what was going on. The only thing they ever did that brought them the animosity of their working people was when they introduced the Bedaux efficiency system. (The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were married at Charles Bedaux's home in France.) He was an effiency engineer and it was a peculiar system of speeding up. The workers just hated it. Art-in-Buttons tried it. I don't know whether they continued it or not, but at least they modified it. However, on all physical matters they were simply splendid and always in the van.

We had quite a lot of cooperation from these people, on legislation, but not on occupational disease coverage on workmen's compensation. Eventually we got the general law, which has been very, very valuable.

Among other things that we did in this first period was to establish an “After-Care” Service in the Workmen's Compensation Bureau. It was brought about by the fact that we found so many claimants for workmen's compensation who were poor, ignorant and often devastated by the accident, who needed more than just the compensation per week that they were going to have. They needed more not in money, but in service,