Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-06-11 | Page 21 | Railroads Will Aid in Good Work

mm ill i II GOOD WORK National Commission to Devise Employers' Liability and Workman's Compensation. By Leased Wlro to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. Juno 10. Every industrial indus-trial concern in the United States and every one of its employes have a deep Interest In tho work of tho national commission com-mission on employers' liability and work- mrni'c nmnAns'j I Inn. If a law be enacted as a result of the work of the commission, which is highly probable, it will apply only to interstate carriers and to corporations which indubitably in-dubitably como under tho commerce clause of the constitution. But of importance im-portance also Is the fact that the law will serve as a model for tho states and aa a result Is bound to remedy tho unsatisfactory un-satisfactory and even archaic conditions which now exist with respect to the relations re-lations of employers and employes. The commission has held one session and will hold others beginning on ne.vt Wednesday. It will hoar the reports of tho railroads twenty-one roads have iolncd to present their views and will have their attorneys testify. Frank B. Kellogg will represent the railway trainmen train-men and other employes' interested. So far as the railroads aro concerned they have announced that their attitude will be one of co-operation rather than obstruction. The tralnmei of course, want the legislation. leg-islation. Thc result, briefly, undoubtedly will be a tromondous reduction through the adoption of improved appliances and groater care of tho terribly high ratio of accidents which now afflict tho service of the carriers. It will also assure 1m-mtMllaio 1m-mtMllaio payment of certain fixed sums, graded according: to Ihe severity of tho cccident. lo Injured nerons or lo their heirs in case of death.