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Show RULES ISSUED FOR INSURING WORKMEN State Industrial Coratrdssion Defines Character of Agreements Between Employer and Employed. By. an order issued by the state industrial in-dustrial commission yesterday, employers employ-ers are forbidden to' enter into agreements agree-ments with employees whereby the latter lat-ter shall pay 'any portion of the premium pre-mium necessary " for the insuriug of compensation for iujrry or death. The order will become effective October 15. The order also provides that no sum may be deducted from any employee's wages for the payment of insurance premiums. One or two big mining companies, it is reported, have operated on a basis of providing medical attention for employees em-ployees sub.iect to the latter devoting a small percentage of their wages to a fund. In some instances the insurance as provided through the company covered cov-ered members of a man's family besides the employee. In this respect the order of the commission com-mission reads: Tt shall be allnwablc for any employer em-ployer to enter into an agreement with any employee to furnish him with medical, surgical or hospital services in excess of $'200, and as a consideration for the agreement to deduct from the wages or assess the employee an amount sufficient to pay for the excess of such services. serv-ices. Jt shall be further allowable for I any employer to enter into an I ngreement with any employee to furnish medical or hospital services ! and to make deductions from the wages when the medicines or serv-i serv-i ices are furnished in case of sick-I sick-I ness or in eas of an injury not j due to an accident arising out of and in the course of his. employment. employ-ment. No employer, however, entering into an agreement as above allowed, al-lowed, shall make or take anv i profit- or profits directly or indirectly indi-rectly as a result of or incident to such agreement so allowable, i These are the nuly exceptions noted ! in the general order for the stopping of the practice of companies insuring men and deducting payment therefor out of the wages. |