The Detroit times., 1909-07-16
SEEK PROTECTION
FOR employees
Typhothetae Will Urge Legislation
lnsuring Speedy Recompense To
Those Injured in Industrial Plans.

by an overwhelming vote. the
United Typothetae OF America. IN its
Thursday morning session in the Hotel
Cadillac. approved a resolution calling
upon the members TO advocate In
their respective states the enactment
of legislation for the protection OF EN-
ployes injured in Industrial plants. II
was stated In the debate that no other
national association OF employers has
aiken such action.
The aim OF the resolution Is 10 get
laws that will enable the injured enh-
ploye To be recompensed without long
and expensive litigation.
Is plain, simple Justice and also
good policy for us TO take such action.
said II. H. Donnelly, OF Chicago. who
introduced the resolution AT the
present time, many men injured In
shops are the support OF families. We
all carry accident insurance for our
employees, and, when the injured man
comes from the doctors hands. he IL
met by an agent OF the insurance
company. who offers him small sum
To settle the case.
IF he is wise. he settles; II he is
10 DtRlu NhS
chances are that the case will be
taken from the jury and he Will get
nothing He is left crippled and his
family Is dependent upon charity lie
has a shyster lawyer and the COM
pany has the best legal talent money
will hire as against his ambulance
chaser Even II he wins. after the
case has been appealed and he has
for ar tKyn "A
gets most OF the verdict.
1T Is not fair and II is not just. The
injured man should not have to bear
the expense OF his injury. II should
fall upon the industry. We can make
an allowance FOR it as we do for our
insurance now
There Is another reason why we
should work for such laws. We have
open shops and we want To teach our
men that we are their friends, not the
unions. II we do not favor the right
kind OF legislation. the unions will
and will use their efforts 10 line our
men against us, their employers.
~ c. Brainard OF Philadelphia. OPP
posed the resolution, saying that
there was more danger OF laws being
enacted unduly favoring the injured
man than the employer. He cited the
action OF leading manufacturing indus
tries OF his state In maintaining able
men at the state capitol TO combat
legislation antagonistic to the employ
ers. as an indication that the employe
was not likely TO be. forgotten by the
legislators other speakers upheld
Donnelly, however, and the vote was
almost unanimous
The resolution provides that laws
should guarantee the employe sure
and just recompense.'
There was a long argument in the
earlier portion OF the session in re-
gard TO the establishment OF an as
sistant secretarys office In Kansas
City, TO extend the membership or
the Typothetae and help in the open
shop movement there. Members from
the southwestern states declared that
their section had furnished many OF
the worlmen TO carry on the battle
with the unions in the north and east.
They were outvoted, however, the
resolution being lost.
The Typothetae wants two things
from the national government One
is an increase IN the duty on picture
postal cards. and the other is an In
crease lin the price OF stamped envel-
ppes of the return kind with the name
NJ the firm purchasing them printed
thereon The printers say the gov
ernment sells these envelopes at
price SO low that they cannot compete
On the printing end.