Show NEW LABOR WS important legislation in interest 1 of workers statutes statute enacted since the of the armistice are matters matter for congratulation 1 substantial progress has been made since the signing of the in erecting additional legal aa guards for working men and women according to the summary of I 1 labo b laws enacted made public by the american association for labor le legislation the statutes passed by forty stated and by congress were examined lot ini compiling the summary and the con coat elusion Is reached that the advance advance I 1 in the field of social insurance li in ps par ticul arly marked pour four more gatej adopted work mens compensation law last year making a total of forty fivel states and territories having such legs legislation in addition to the model ret act of the federal government for its if civilian employees and the told lera and sailors insurance act matter of sound besides this almost every state batet aine i dec aed its compensation law with the trend says dr john B D Andrev Andrew nu si secretary of the association encouragingly i toward more liberal beneal shorter waiting periods and wide scope indicating that protective I 1 for labor are regarded by legislator ul not as a matter of sentiment but oi of sound economics north dakota one of the nearl new states to join the compensation group hns has now an enlightened PI I 1 for an exclusive state fund ten leoj states raised their scale of campen com pen bation at present twe twenty nty thra states in nil all require employers employ era to payi workers when injured from GO 60 to CO 23 2 3 per cent of their wages only six states all of them in the south lack work mens compensation acts even more significant dr andrewl andrewa thinks than alian tho the compensation lasur antice legislation Is tile the impetus gavend to the movement for compulsory r work mens health insurance to protect wage earners rind and their families against the hazards of sickness as aa work mens compensation now safeguards them when accidentally in aured women workers benefited progress wits was also made tande the tha report states in obtaining legislation limit ing the alic of women tind andl children in half a dozen states tho thai hours of women workers wore ro re difed including on an eight hour limit fulli in massachusetts won after a full half struggle north dohota I 1 passed minimum wage bagu le giRla j tion for women and children bring bringing int tile tho total or of states having such laws laoj up to 14 in addition to the dietric district of columbia elg eight states improved il their child labor acts congress 1 re enacted child labor regulations declared unconstitutional by the supreme court using its taxing power ns as tile means of enforcement while congress continued to hold back says doctor andrews well weir considered measures for a federal ferate employment it ervice as embodied in the kenyon nolan bill and voca lional rehabilitation for industrial cripples several states took action to meet these urgent needs four states in addition to massachusetts where beginnings were made a year ago authorized zed aid in re educating and ana finding employment for industrial crip 1 ples pies and the smith bill extending the present federal state system of vocational education to cover tho the maimed victims of industrial accidents ci el passed the united states senate labor unions legalized labor unions were expressly legal zed in three states during the year while in two of these tile tho use of ln in S j junctions in labor disputes Is strictly limited ort angon gon created ft stole state boards board of conciliation for Indu industrial strini disputes such midi as veir new york tin lias while south Carn carolinn linn passed a law establishing penalties for violation of its conciliation 1 and arbitration net six more katoa passed cri criminal minni syndicalism and nho tage laws california minnesota and okla annin increased tho powers 0 their in dus trint to en j on of safety regulations and glicr afier labor laws |