The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-05-26

Joseph, who does not know his em- ployes, does not work with them, does not know their trials and tribulations and the danger they are exposed to in their work and his standard of pru- dence is to get as much as he can from his investment regardless of safety in life and limb to his em- ployes
 And it is the duty of the State to provide these necessary safeguards, some of which this bill of mine pro- vides''
 MT Meltzer then went on to ex- plain the different provisions of his bill which follows. There is likeli- hood that some of the provisions of the bill will be incorporated in the employers liability bill or mode a sep arate act.
 An Act Amending an Act Concern
 ing Masters Duty to Servant. Be
 It Enacted by the Senate and House
 of Representatives in General As
 Sembly convened:
 Section 47O2 of the General Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows:
 It shall be the duty of the master to exercise due care to provide for the servant a safe place in which to work, safe appliances and instrument talities for his work, and fit and com peteht persons as his co-laborers; to exercise due care in the appointment Or designation of a vice principal, and to appoint or designate as such vice. principal a fit and competent person. The manager, superintendent or fore- man in charge Or control of the con- Struction, or works or machinery, or operation, or any part thereof, or any person designated by the master to perform the duties, which the law im- pose upon the master to perform, shall be held to be a .vice-principal in all suits for damages for death or injury suffered by servant. Any employer engaged in the construction, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any building, bridge, viaduct or other structure, or in the erection or opera tion of any machinery, or in the manu- facture, transmission and use of cleo tricity, or in the manufacture or use of any dangerous appliance or sub- stance, shall see that all metal, wood, rope, glass, rubber, gutta percha, or other material whatever, shall be care fully selected and inspected and test ed so as to detect any defects and all scaffolding, staging, false work or other temporary structure shall be constructed to bear three times the maximum weight to be sustained by said structure, and such structure shall not at any time be overloaded or overcroWded, and all scaffolding, staging or other structure more than twenty feet from the ground or floor or other structure more than twenty feet from the ground or floor shall be secured from swaying and provided with a strong and efficient safety rail or other contrivance, so as to prevent any person from falling therefrom, and all dangerous machinery shall be securely covered and protected to the fullest extent that the proper opera  all shafts, wells, floor openings, and similar places of danger shall be en- closed and all machinery other than than operated by hand power shall, whenever necessary for the safety of persons employed about the same or for the safety of the general public, be provided with a system of commun- ication by means of signals so that at all times there may be prompt and efficient communication between the eployes or other persons and the op- orator of the motive power to enable it's quick stoppage, and in the trans- mission and use of electricity of @ dangerous voltage full and complete insulation shall be provided at all points where the public or the em- ployes of the owner, contractor or Suh- contractor transmitting or using said electricity are liable to come in con- tact with the wire, and dead wires shall not be mingled with live wires nor strung upon the same support, and the arms or supports bearing live wires shall be specially designated by a. color or other designation which is instantly apparent, and live electrical wires carrying dangerous voltage shall be strung at such distance from the poles or supports as to permit re- pairmen to frenely engage in their work without danger of shock and, generally, all owners, contractors or