Show arizona ari zona s pro proposed p d compensation compensate on C law one of the in most ost important measures incident to minin mining g in arizona is the measure which is to come before the voters of arizona this year in the proposed amendment to the constitution of arizona to provide compensation for workmen injured in hazardous employments and for their beneficiaries and dependents where death results from such injury the the plan calls for state insurance administered by an industrial board appointed by the governor by and with the advice and co consent of the senate providing that the employer shall pay a certain rate of premium on his payroll into the state industrial accident fund and that the injured em bloye shall be paid directly from this fund it is optional with the employed to come under the law or stay out if the employer elects to come under the law it is not binding upon an employed who shall elect not to be bound by the law and serves notice to that effect upon his employer and the board any employed who has rejected the law if his employer is operating under it may at any time waive or reconsider such rejection upon notification to his employer and the board when injury is due to the accident arising out of or in the course of employment away from the plant of the employer through the negligence or wrong of another not in the same employ recourse to common law by the employed may be elect ed instead of compensation any employer and his employed emp loyes engaged in non work or employment li by Y their joint election filed with and approved by the board may accept the compensation provisions of the law and the rate of assessment of the employer shall be fixed at one half of I 1 per cent of his total payroll employers who do not elect to come under the law shall not in any suit brought by an employed to recover damages for personal injury or death by accident be permitted to defend any suit at law upon the grounds that the employed was negligent or that the injury was caused by the negligence of a fellow employed emp loye or that the em aloye had assumed the risk attending the occupation which resulted in the injury all persons excepting household and domestic servants and agricultural laborers or casual employed emp loyes working for wages in occupations specified as hazardous of which over are named in the text of the law are entitled to compensation when the injury causes death 66 per cent of the daily wage at the time of the injury for a period of 1900 days to the beneficiary fi if any in no case to be less than nor more than in addition to other compensation co there shall be paid burial expenses of the employed n not ot ex exceeding C beding if there be no beneficiary there shall be paid to his major dependents 50 per cent of the daily wages at the time of the injury for a period of 1900 days not exceeding 8 nor less than if there be no major dependents then upon the same basis 40 per cent shall be paid to his minor dependents pen dents for an injury producing total disability compensation shall be paid out of the industrial accident fund to the injured employed semimonthly semi monthly at the rate of 66 per cent of the daily wages at the time of the injury during life if this shall be the period of such disability the semimonthly semi monthly payments provided for may be converted in whole or in part into a lump sum payment not exceeding the estimated value of the present worth borth of the de berred payments capitalized at the rate of 5 per cent per annum such conversion may only be made upon the written application of the injured workman his beneficiary or major or minor dependents as the case may be but the advisability of such much conversion shall rest in the discretion odthe of the board ten per cent of the premium collected from employed emp loyes shall be set aside by the industrial accident board for the creation of a surplus until such sum shall amount to and thereafter 5 per cent of such premiums shall be set aside until such surplus shall in the judgment of the board be sufficient to cover the catastrophe hazard this law has been compiled after a thorough investigation of every compensation law now in action in the mining states and in canada and is said to be the best thing of its kind yet submitted for action to the voters of arizona consideration of this bill was given during a recent meeting of the arizona chapter of the american mining congress which met in prescott june alth and representatives senta tives of all of the large and small mining companies in the state were present for this session as well as hundreds of members |