Excerpt from National Convention of Factory Inspectors in the United States The importance of bringing together the Factory Inspectors of the different States has long been recognized. The benefits that would likely accrue from a conference of those whose duties involve such vast consequences to community were manifest. The laws on the subject of inspection in the various States are so different as scarcely to be recognizable as being upon the same general subject. To produce something like uniformity, both in the laws and in the practice of the inspectors, was deemed desir able, and this could only be effected by an interchange of views and a comparison of the statutes under which each inspector acted. To accomplish so laudable a purpose, Mr. Henry dorn, Chief Inspector of Workshops and Factories of Ohio, opened a corre spondence during the year 1886 owith the Inspectors of other States, with the vie? Of bringing about a meeting at as early a date as practicable'.t This, of course, took considerable time. Each Inspector entertained views peculiar to himself on the sub jcet, and these conflicting ideas had to be harmonized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.