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Show oo COMPENSATION LAW IN MONTANA. iMoniaua has a compensation law, and the measure Is being well received. re-ceived. The Butte Miner has this to say of the new law. "Montana's new compensation law, designed to be an equitable measure for employer and employe alike and at iGast affording a good start in the direction of materializing a satisfactory satisfac-tory law of tho kind for all concerned, con-cerned, is now In active effect. Enforcement En-forcement of it began at midnight. In the framing of the law in question, every conscientious effort was made to have it comprise the very best features fea-tures of all such other statutes In existence. ex-istence. When the idea of a compensation compen-sation measure In Montana first was advocated, it frequently was pointed out that great difficulty would be Involved In-volved in drafting a law that would prove satisfactory to omployerB and omployes and be fair to both sides. In qrder to solve the problems presented pre-sented by the intricacies Involved in the writing of such a law, deep study was necessary The first measure of the kind presented to the voters ot the state was defeated because It was not deemed as equitable as it should have been." Utah should have a compensation law based on the broad principles of 3 Justice as affecting the inherent rights of employer and employe, and Montana might prove to bo the state whose statute on the subject could be , made applicable to conditions here no |