The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-02
THE MELTzER
MEASURE FOR
COMPENSATION
Text of Measure Introduced
in the House by Bridge
port Representative.

| port Representative.
Following is the text of the measure
introduced into the legislature by
1 Representative Joshua Meltzer Of
Bridgeport outlining comprehensive
Workingmen's Compensation act:
Be 1t Enacted by tho Senate and
1 House of Representatives In Assem-
bly, Convened:
Section 1. If an employee in any
employment to which this act applies
receives personal injury while per-
forming duties growing out OF or in
cidental to such employment. he shall
be paid compensation by his employ
er in accordance with the scale and
condition Of compensation hereinaf-
ter provided.
| Section 2 The employer shall moi
| be liable under this act for an injury
which does not incapacitate the en-
ployee for q period of at least one
week from earning full wages at the
work at which he was employed.
! Section 8. When an empIoyee is
injured by the negligence of the en-
! ployer, of some person for whose &C,
| or default the employer is liable in
| dependently Of this act, such, liability
of the employer shall not be affected
| by this act, but such injured en-
ployee may at his option either claim
| Compensation under this act, or pro
coed against his employer as though
| this act were not passed; but the EN-
ployer shall not be liable to pay COM
both under this act and under pro.
ceedings instituted independently
| thereof, and the injured employees
| shall be bound by the proceedings
which he first institutes against his
| employer.
] Section 4. If it shall appear thai
an employee was injured by reason
| of his own wilful or fraudulent mis-
! conduct, any compensation claimed
by him under this act may be disal-
| lowed.
Section 5. All questions arising
under this act as to the liability of
employers to pay compensation un-
/ der the same, or as to the amount or
| duration of such compensation. ii not
settled by the agreement of the par
| ties interested therein. shall, subject
| to the provisions of this act, be set
| tied by arbitration as hereinafter
! provided.
Section 6. No proceedings for COM
pensation for an injury under this
act shall be maintained unless a no
tice of the accident shall have been
given to the employer as soon as
practicable after.t the happening there
| Of, and unless the claim for compen
sation with respect to such accident
shall have been made within six
| months after the occurrence Of the
employee or in the event Of his phys
ical or mental fncapacity, within six
months after such death or the reno
val Of such physical or mental inca
pacity.
Such notice shall be in writing, and
shall contain the name and address
of the person injured, and shall state
in ordinary language the time, place
and cause Of the injury, and shall be
signed by the person injured or by d
person, in his behalf, or by his legal
representative in the event of his
death; and such notice shall be serv-
ed upon the employee or upon one en-
plOyer If there are more employers
than one, or upon any officer of a
eorporatioa If the employer is a cor
to the person on whom it is to be
served, or at his residence or place of
business, or by mail by a registered
letter addressed to the person on
whom 1t is to be served at his last
known place Of residence or place of
business. A notice given under the
provisions of this act shall not be held
invalid or insufficient by reason Of
any inaccuracy in stating the time,
place, or cause of the injury, If it is
to mislead, and that the employer
was not in fact misled thereby.
Section Z. If an employer enters
into contract. written or oral, with
an independent contractor to do part
of such employers work or if such
contractor enters into contract with
sub-contractor to do all or any part
of the work comprised in such con-
tractors contract with the employer,
and such employer would, If such
work were executed by employees inn
mediately employed by him, be liable
to pay compensation under this act to
those workmen, such employer shall
be liable to pay to such employees
any compensation which would be
payable to them under this act by
If such Independent or sub-contrac-
tors were employers to whom this
act applies. Such employer how
ever. shall be entitled to recover in
demnity from any other person who
would have been liable to such en-
ployees independently of this section.
This section shall not apply to any
contract Of such independent or SUBJ
contractors which is no part of, or
process in. the trade or business car
ried on by such employer.
Section s. If any employer be-
comes liable under this act to pay
compensation to any employee, and
is entitled to any sum from insurers
due to an employee under such liza
btlity, and also becomes insolvent, or
makes composition or arrangement
with his creditors, such employee
shall have a first lien upon the sum
aforesaid for the amount SO due him;
and any justice of the Superior court,
upon motion Of any interested per-
son, may order the insurers to pay
over such sum to the person or per-
sons entitled thereto under this act
Section .. If an employee sustains
an injury for which compensation is
payable under this act, and which
was caused under circumstances
creating a legal liability therefor in
some person other than his employer
such employee may, at his option,
proceed Independently Of this act to
recover damages against such other
person, or against his employer for
compensation under this act, but not
against both; and If compensation he
paid under this act under such condi-
tions, the employer shall be entitled
10 recover indemnity therefor from
such other person.
only to employment on or in or about
railroad. street railway, a factory,
a workshop. warehouse, mine, a
quarry, engineering work, and any
building which is being constructed,
repaired, altered, or improved by
means of a scaffolding, temporary
staging or ladder. or being demolish-
ed, or on which machinery driven bv
steam, water or other mechanical
power is being used for the person
of the construction, repair, or demoli-
ton thereof.
Section II. The following words
and phrases, as used in this act shall,
unless a different meaning Is plainly
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