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Comments on several issues relevant to foreign and domestic policies in the U.S. Indications that the time of the U.S. Congress may be occupied with the problem of military reorganization and national defense; Unemployment; Casualties from mines and quarries in the U.S.

Focuses on the plight of coal miners in the U.S. with the loss of thousands of lives on yearly basis in spite of the remarkable advance in technical knowledge and engineering skill to overcome the physical impediments to mining, and despite the development of labor-saving machinery. Prime causes of mine explosions; Pros and cons associated with the use of safety lamps by miners to avoid accidents in the mines; Ignorance of coal companies in the U.S. to regulate safety measures to further prevention of accidents; Account of the work of the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the study of mine explosions, their cause and prevention; Analysis of the work of the Bureau in the field of First Aid and in studying accidents other than mine explosions.

Focuses on the strike of the American Federation of Labor Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union against the redwood lumber industry in California. Policy of the lumber industry to recruit workers from other areas of the U.S.; Efforts of Ward Phillips, a worker, to prevent new workers from joining the industry; Perception among veteran workers that employees of the lumber industry will not get decent wages; Issues of wages, safety regulations and job security demanded by the striking workers; Decision of big companies to negotiate with workers due to increasing competitive pressure; Attitude of Earl Warren, governor of California, towards the strike; Deadlock on the issue between workers and management of the lumber industry; Decline in production of the lumber industry due to the strike.

Focuses on issues stemming from the increasing occupational cancers in the U.S. Estimates on the annual number of work-related cancer cases per year; Citations of chemicals with potential health hazards; Response of the Food and Drug Administration to the issue; Information that the total budget for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the federal agency charged with research to protect worker safety, is under $30 million; Lack of epidemiologists in the NIOSH staff.

Discusses the scenario of safety on jobs in the U.S. Statistics on the number of work injuries taking place in the U.S. every day; Effect of the long range injuries on the capacity to work; Obstruction to the Administration's worker health and security bill; Testimony before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee earlier this year by Public Health Service employees and medical professors citing cases such as a man bodily carried from his hospital and given a bed at the work place in order to eliminate lost time accidents.

Focuses on the issue of a set of standards for the in-plant handling of asbestos by the U.S. Department of Labor. Increase in the cases of cancer due to asbestos among labor in the country; Data on hazards of inhaling asbestos; Views that the dust level in the factories has been much lower due to the regulations set by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Opinion that mesothelioma has been a medical oddity virtually unseen except among laborers resulting due to the dust; Number of steps included in the regulations to provide safe working places.

Presents the problem of unemployment in the U.S. that has taken a form of a giant monster with the advent of the age of electricity. Dawn of the new environment of the Power age with the eclipse of the Machine age; Replacement of steam hoists run by the workers to the electric mine elevators because of the obvious advantages in safety, speed and better control; Eruption of problems in various industries like the paper industry as workers got maimed by the hot rolls and gnawing gears.

Comments on issues related to the broadcasting of advertisement on television in the U.S. Theme of the commercial of Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc. Failure of the Consumer Union (CU) to practice name-calling and analytical methods in its magazine on television; Attempts of CU to get stronger enforcement of the Toy Safety Act.

Focuses on the urgency of enforcing health and work environment standards for workers in uranium mining industry in the U.S. Responsibility of the U.S. Department of Labor in enforcing the law to protect uranium miners; Comments from Department of Labor secretary Willard Wirtz on the issue; Legislative hearing conducted on the issue; Mortality among uranium miners.

Reports on the death of mine workers who were trapped by an explosion in the mines of Ohio-Pennsylvania Coal Co. located in Cadiz, Ohio. Efforts of Jennings Randolph, member of the House Committee on Mines and Mining, to put forward a bill on mine-safety measures; Cancellation of the bill prior to its proposition; Provision in the bill for allowing federal authorities to inspect mines from time to time; Sponsors of the bill included Representative Fred Keller in the House and Senator Pearl Neely in the Senate.

Focuses on the impact of poisonous fumes from factories on public health. Number of people killed due to poisonous fumes of an industry in Donora, Pennsylvania; Laws related to emission of fumes from factories; Respiratory diseases caused by air pollution; Steps which should be taken to reduce air pollution.

Focuses on the need of federal laws governing the safety of work environment in coal mines of the U.S. Reasons for the coal mine accident in Centralia, Washington; Sources of funds for the implementation of a new legislative bill concerning the safety of coal miners; Efforts of labor leader John L. Lewis to enhance the safety of coal mines; Statement that a decent contract between the labor union United Mine Workers and private mine operators is necessary; Suggestion that President Harry S. Truman must make the Southern operators yield union terms equivalent to those accepted by operators elsewhere.

Focuses on deteriorating labor conditions at the construction site of Boulder Dam. Decision of contracting out Boulder Dam project to private contractors; Specifications of the contract which included three demands in regard to labor; Employment of workers directly by the construction contractors; Significance of the omission of any government protection to workers engaged on this proud public enterprise appears when one envisages the appalling difficulties and dangers under which they will work for the next seven years; Investigation of the Boulder Dam project by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Results on the investigation which suggests that wages are being cut below prevailing levels, insufficient care is being exercised for the workers' safety, every advantage is being taken of the depression and organized labor and its demands are being ignored.

Presents an essay depicting the condition of a female foreign laborer in a garment factory in the U.S. Description of noise in the production area; Tendency of worker to daydream about her homeland; Injury caused by a gas flame; Fantasy formed out of reading the book "Quo Vadis"; Experience of discrimination by superintendent.

Focuses on the railway policy in the U.S. Question of railway rates; Depreciation of railway security; Advancement of rates sufficient to raise the whole mass of railway securities to the peace time level.

This article presents information about the Industrial Security Program of the United States government that was initiated in the year 1949. Three million workers in 21,000 plants in the U.S. must now have clearance to perform classified work under this program. A report on that program has just been issued by the AFL-CIO and a documented case is made that some employers use the security system as a weapon against unions and good union men. The Industrial Security Program itself was not created by the U.S. Congress or any Executive Order but grew up as part of the contractual agreements between the Department of Defense and private firms engaged in defense work.

The article looks at the National Consumers' League advocacy organization, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its founding in 1899. It describes the strategies employed by the group to bring about improved industrial working conditions, especially for child and women workers, discussing its efforts in manufacturing industries including clothing and candy and citing its head, Florence Kelley.

Comments on the development of modern car as an example of progress in the automobile industry in the U.S. Creation of the headlight that automatically when the lights of an approaching car strike it; Disadvantage of the comfortable automatic on the instinctive self-survival apparatus of the human nervous system; Safety risk of automatic shift gear.