Show JOB FUND U URGED GED AT UTAH SAFETY MEET Industrial Chief Favors Establishment Establishment stab stab- of Insurance by Establishment of a security wage fund Cund to serve as unemployment insurance in insurance insurance in- in In times of or depression was advocated by William M. M Knerr chairman of or the Utah state industrIal commission at the opening session of or the intermountain safety conference conference conference confer confer- ence at the Newhouse hotel Monday The security fund should be established established l hed by universal law and should require every employer to contribute a small amount to a trust fund Mr Knerr said This additional cost should be added to the selling price of or the product so every member 01 or Of society would ultimately contribute to the fund thus helping to to systematize systematize the problem and take it out of or the element of charity he ex ex- ex Unemployment insurance cannot be classed sed as a a dole it Is something that every worker Is entitled to he said Ifa If-a law had been passed some sometime sometime time ag ago and nd a fund had been between July 1 1927 and June 30 adding on one cent to every dollar of the payroll expenditure expendi expendi- ture In Utah there would be an amount of or on hand he explained OBVIATES CHARITY CHARITY- This amount would paid in by the concerns subject to the compensation compensation com corn laws and would not include railroad workers farmers domestic help and concerns employing less than three workers Mr Knerr said The community chest and other re re- re let lief organizations should I not be called upon to care for any persons other than those who are physically unfit to work he declared All AIl able- able bodied men should be given work or else paid unemployment insurance The safety conference is being held in connection with the second annual Industrial first aid contest t to be beheld held at the Utah state fair on Wednesday day Both the contest and conference are being conducted under the auspices of or the Utah Safety society Sc fons will be held during both the morning and afternoon on Tuesday GOVERNOR TALKS J. J F. F coo Coombs bs president o of the so socIety society so- so clety presided at the conference an anga and ga gave gae e a brief history o of the tion It was start started d two years ago with live five members and now has a membership of or Governor George H H. Dem Dern delivered delivered ered the address of Welcome and praised the safety workers for their Continued d on Pa Pate Pale e Eighteen JOB FUND URGED AT UTAH SAFETY MEET Continued urd from Pare Pace Nine accomplishments in saving human lives and limbs through their C C. C T T. Bailey chief safety agent for forthe forthe forthe the Union Pacific delivered an address address ad ad address dress on Railroad Safety He said th the railroads in the United States have made madean an outstanding achievement achieve achieve- ment in reduction ot of accidental 1 deaths and injuries resulting from fron railroad d accidents since organized safety became effective He said that despite the Increase in automobiles th the crossing accidents had been re reduced reduced reduced re- re 12 13 per cent during the educational educational campaign conducted between 1927 and 1930 |