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Show Ing private incomes In excess of annually are excluded. Kmptoyers are required to Insure payments of liabilities in a mutual Insurance In-surance company, under the control of the rompensai ion Insurance board. Employers are barred from deducting insurance premiums from the pay of employes. Neither can employers and employes make a vat Id agreement to waive liahtlitiea Kmployes cannot obtain compensation compensa-tion for more than thirteen week la any one year. JOBS GUARANTEED BY LAWPROPOSED Plan Suggested by Which to Prerent Unrest ! I MAU1HON. Wis., March 11. 'V.uar-I 'V.uar-I anteed a job, the American workman 1 will not be troublesome. 'The feeling of Insecurity as to the permanency of the Job Is the principal cauae of labor unreni." i This In brief summarizes the opin- ion of professor John It. t'ommons, I 'noted economist of the Iniversity of Wisconsin. The stale of Wisconsin hui bees asked to Incorporate Professor Commons' Com-mons' views in a law. A hill Is now pending In the legislature, written un- der Professor ommone direction, which insures workmen comnensatloa ia case of loss of employment. The bill Is generally known as aa unemployment Insurance measure, but Its primary purpose Is to guarantee the workman his Job. The fate of the bill cannot be foretold. fore-told. The measure accepts the sweeping sweep-ing principle that the liability for unemployment un-employment rests solely upon the employer. em-ployer. The state, under the provisions provi-sions of the bill, operates free employment em-ployment offices and assist employment employ-ment offices and assists employer In finding Jobs tor men dropped from their payrolta I'ntll such Jobs are found employers must pay Idle workmen work-men and women f 1.(0 per day fori esch day of idleness and Ti centa a day for employes under the age of 1ft years. Workmen must have worked for one or more employers sin months before t hey are entitled to compensation Thev must be ranable. available for employment and unable to obtain suitable suit-able Jobs, No employe ts required tej work where there Is a lockout er strike 'onempieyment Insurant he-gine he-gine the third day after the lose of a Job end must h paid weekly. The bill does not apply to farmers, canning factories, state, dt.es. towns, vtllaaea and school districts. Private 1 employers working less than three men are also exemrtsaV Employee hav- |