Show T r I Communication I Editor of or The Republican Herald To the list of or two twenty to states in which worl workmans workman's mans man's compensation laws law were already In ill effect eight more states have been added this year oar and also the he ne territory of or Alaska This loaves out only three trans-Missouri trans states without compensation laws Utah Idaho and New Mexico The Tho senate of ot New Mexico passed a It abill abill bill which was defeated in the tho hou house c. c The Idaho bill was vetoed b by the gov- gov ov- ov England pa passed a workmans workman's compensation law Jaw in 1880 The schedule of or compensation varies in the states which have enacted compensation com corn laws 8 to 15 per week maximum In most of or the tho states both employers and employees are arc quite well satisfied with these laws lat Wis Wisconsin 1 enacted a 1 workmans workman's compensation compensation law four tour years ago It is elective elective elec elec- tive in character nearly nearl all of or the tho employers em em- and employees o of the state have accepted tho the net act Last March l tho the legislature legislature leg leg- of or public hearings hearings hear henr- ings amen amendments ments having havin been of offered offered Of- Of to the law Of or all the persons who sho spoke before the committee not one advocated the repeal of or the law Ian The only dissatisfaction apparent was among workmen who desired a 1 raise raibe In the s schedule The employers expressed ex- ex pressed their satisfaction as thc they knew exactly what the Insurance rate willbe will willbe willbe be and and added the thc amount thereof to tho the cost of ot production The humanitarian tilde aide of or this subject subject subject sub sub- Is la appealing more and more to the he he people of or this Christian nation Vb Why should the widows and children of ot men who produce the wealth and comforts an and build the cities and feed and anti clothe clotho the world suffer stiffer for food tood when hen the support of the Is taken b by some somo unfortunate accident The duty of or the state should be and will be he to care for victims of industrial accidents There is something pitiable pitiable pitiable piti piti- able when the support of ot the tho family is taken and a n. wife and the mother takes up tip the double burden to care for herself and her little ones Perhaps the unfortunate mother takes them to toa toa toa a da day nursery in order that she ma may go out and work for them so that when the da days day's s work is done she ma may have lave the Jo Joy of ot their presence at night There are thousands of ot such mothers who fight tight on and on in the tho unequal battle with poverty and want Experts on the subject say that the tIme workmans workman's compensation law which went into effect in the State of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York July 1014 1 is tho most liberal yet et adopted in this country Ever Every employer must arrange to compensate his ils employees for tor accidental injuries b by taking out a a. policy of or insurance Ina in ina ina a liability company or b by insuring in inthe inthe inthe the state fund or by Joining a mutual or b by writing his own n insurance under conditions prescribed b by law Before the he act went into effect more than employers had taken Insurance In n one or another of ot the above forms The insurance costs employers quite 2 a year That is a a. large nr e esum sum and the critics critic's make much of or it v Ilov mu much h th the old contingent fee fec tern cm of ot collecting damages for or Industrial industrial industrial indus Indus- trial accidents cost the employers cannot cannot cannot can can- not be determined Undoubtedly It was man many millions of or dollars only a part of which ever reached the Injured workman or his dependent family The Thc last census says sas that manufacturing manufacturing turing alone in the tho Empire state employs employs em em- plo ploys s 's more than a million hands with the yearly output in excess of or three and a third billion dollars The y ty millions therefore amounts to less ess than 1 per cent of or the tile annual product After Atter allowing for tho the cost cost to 10 employers of or the old damage suit method and including employees other than those engaged in manufacturing pursuits the amount paid b by the tho employer employer em om- In addition to the old method would be probably not more than a quarter of 1 per cent of or the worth of or orthe the manufactured product I If It were not for tor the great laboring class the women of society would be compelled to resort to the thc fig leaf leat of or Mother rother Eve and civilization would dwell in the thc tents of ot the savage Tho wealth of India cannot make whole th torn flesh and broken bod body of or the victim of or some unfortunate accident but jut mone money will 1 help under these distressIng distressing distressing dis dis- dis- dis circumstances When will wilt Utah join the two thirty states which now give gf protection to the he victims and dependents of ot unhappy in Industrial accidents D. D 0 O. O RIDEOUT HIDEOUT Madison Wis Vis June 26 1915 |