The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-01-18

away his physical powers you have
taken away his use to the community,
you have taken away his capacity for
being any good to anybody, and he
becomes a charge upon the community
sooner or later: That has to be rec
ognized tn the poor law system of
every land, because it is a part of the
tenets of every civilized country that
no person snail be allowed to starve.-
There is no such thing as individual
can not he entire liberty in civilized
community, or somebody would suffer.
Liberty must be restrained for the
good Of the average citizen. A man
may be impelled by certain motives
which would inflict injury upon others
unless he were restrained. He may
be DESTROYS Of doing certain things
perfectly lawful in themselves, but not
e9pedient that they should be done in
the society in which he lives; and
therefore society says that although
that which he proposes to do is not a
crime, it is not expedient that he
should do it, and laws have been
passed to prevent him from doing
those things. -. ~
Responsibility Of Employers.
That brings me to the point at
once-the responsibility that capital
has and the responsibility that capital
has and the responsibility that en-
ployers have for the physical powers
Of those whom they employ, and
those whom they pay for. There are
certain risks in everything you put
your hand to, but you provide for it..
You can: NOT build a house, ,flreproof
though it be, next door to another
mans house, without running the risk
that his house may burn yours down,
or burn you, or do some injury. You
therefore insure against that risk, 1T
YOU are wise man. You look upon
it as part of the stock-in-t trade ex-
pense that you must meet. You can
not cross the street, you can not take
a journey without running the risk
that possibly you may be inconveni-
enced or: injured by, the act of !. an
other, or you may by accident Injire
yourself; and you provide for that
risk by insuring. -
I'VE in England have come. to this
cenclusion: That no man can be en-
gagged by another for salary or for
wage without the risk Of his life being
put upon the person that. pays. the
wage We have come to the conclu-
sion that a. man must insure the risk
Of injury to the physical powers Of
those whom he pays, just as much as
he insures the risk Of his house burn
ing, or the risk Of accident happening
to himself" 49, : :: =: - -'.: -. ---:s::
"Now, that is a stf6ng order; that
Els a big theory, but look at it! #
/ you lose your! money as manufacturers
you can possibly bide your time and
/ get more If your man loses his health
he. has no time to bide, he is done.
You can recover, but he can not.
Wherefore the Law has said: Whoever
employs man for his own profit or
advantage must, # the man is injured
while in his employment or in the
course of his employment, provide for
the man precisely as though he him.
self were the man. That Is, II q man
is injured accidentally or in some
way due to the business that he is
doing, the law now says it does mot
matter how the injury comes about; it
does not matter whether or not it was
due: to the, s;carelessness Of: somebody
else, provided it was not due to the
mans carelessness, and provided it
was not his work, the master must
pay compensation after the first week.
Now, there is another thing; If g.
man is killed in the works you can
see it. If a man has mis-; fingers cut
off it is too painfully apparent. But
what about that girl going out of that
match factory, her. eyes red and "a
blue tint, over 1.-THE mouth. You know
she can not live: long: Mo- but she
works at a match factory and takes
the risk. Matches can rot be made
with PHOSPHORUS without that risk
Can not you make; matches without
phosphorous2:S: Yes; but 1t costs more.
Lives: ARE cheap the, substitute for
phosphorous j. deaE.,. That is all over
in y England today. We have zsaid :; to
the employer. If syou employ girls or
men. In any kind Of employment that
causes injury TO health YOU shall pay
just as much 'as If you 2injured them
by. cutting their limbs off or killing
Them The. act that commenced on
July .17tho last saysi '.-:Any person en-
ploying. another and giving that other
disease during. the course of his en-
ployment shall be responsible for the
consequences Of the disease" That is
law.ll;..: I ~ " 49,. Z. .~.....: =a.
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