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of view. The outcome of the conference was that "the Society, as Hungary's foremost ranking scientific organization, decided upon thorough deliberation to adopt Prof. Dollinger's proposal to the effect of instructing its board of directors to set up a petition to the Minister of Trade, suggesting to forbid the use of white phosphorus." Issued in reply was the Ministerial Decree 24.991/1908 which called for certain restrictions but without providing any essential relief so that the disease went on to rage with invariable cruelty and frequency among match factory workers. But in 1910, Friedrich's fact-finding treatise "Die Phosphornekrose in Ungarn" about the fearful health conditions in Hungary's match factories and among their workers was presented at a conference in Lugano to the International Labour Office and decisively contributed to making the organization proclaim a ban for the use of yellow phosphorus in match-making and a restriction under tight rules of control for its use in other spheres of industry. Not unmentioned, by the way, should be the oddities bound up with the Lugano conference, viz. that a few governments assented to adopting the phosphorus ban readily and much sooner than the authorities of the country which had furnished the main body of evidence in the form of Friedrich's report; that Hungary's delegation of 10 representatives only made a promise to comply with the prohibition order but long years had still to pass before it was carried into effect; and lastly that, of all professions, the medical was not represented in the delegation and the worker-organizations (syndicates) was also not represented. X. Increasingly as from 1900, Hungary's industrial and commercial governmental administration found itself confronted with definite labour protection demands which rendered it inevitable to make certain concessions in favour of the social welfare outlook. With this object in mind was called into being the Hungarian Society for Legal Labour Protection under the chairmanship of Baron József Szterényi, national supervisor of industrial development, ministerial department chief and later Secretary of State.

15 Established at the call of, and coincidingly with, the International Labour Office of Geneva, the Hungarian Society considered it a principal task, on ground of surveys it conducted in the country industry, to submit suggestions to the international organization which the Government, however, has consistently denied to endorse. At first ]5 Szterényi J.: Az utolsó három év szociálpolitikája külföldön. (Social Politics of the Last Three Years on abroad.) Elnöki megnyitó a Törvényes Munkásvédelem Magyarországi Egyesületének 1911. évi december hó 10-én tartott közgyűlésén. Könyvalakban megjelent a Törvényes Munkásvédelem Magyarországi Egyesületének kiadványaként. (Inaugural address of the president on the meeting of the Legal Labour-safety Association in Hungary held on 10. Dec. 1911. Edited in the Publications of the Legal Labour-safety Association in Hungary.) Budapest 1911.; Szterényi J. : Szociálpolitikai konservativizmus. (Social Political Conservativism.) A Törvényes Munkásvédelem Magyarországi Egyesületének kiadványai, 20. (Publications of the Legal Labour-safety Association in Hungary, Vol. 20.) Budapest 1914.