The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-01-14
LABOR APPLAUDS CARNEGIE
" no IS FOR SUTTON
FOR IN.yyRED UORk UE\.
Tie AMI Got. Roosevelt at National tN'c
Federation Meeting SIwah on need of
inform Legislation tn Safrsuar"
Interests OF " Orkmrn Low prr>id's.

Andrew Carnegie and Col Roosevelt
spoke Yesterday at the afternoon session
of IN" annual meeting Of TN" National
, Civic Federation in the Hotel tstur on
compensation TO workm.u in cas-" ot IN
dustrial accidents
The session opened with President
Seth Low Of IN. federation as chairman
p. Tecums"h Sherman, chairman OF tlI"
/ legal committee OF the department on
compensation for industrial accidents
and ihcir prevention. which drafted
proposed Till for uniform stat l"gisn-
tion. mad. "A report detailing th" reasons
for preparing such "A measure som" ~
it's provisions were as follows
In the cas-" of n man earning less than
81. 500 "A wear. If an accident inCapacltat"d
him from working hut was not fa'al and
in cas-" the accident was not through IN"
fault of the injured man, he was To h" paid
half of the wages he was earning for ten
wears In case of Il fatal issur his family
was to be paid his wages for four years
IN" full amount paid however, not TO
exceed 5000 Medical attendanc" was
to b, furnished also. the money 50 spent
not to "xcn.d sipo Employers w"r" To
/ l' gwen 'Ih IlEul ''' UldN' li'N''i'' I'''i
cal examinations
When MIR Sherman had finished speak
! ing Andrew Carnegie was escorted 10 TN"
platform
Nf Carnegir said that he was ready
10 support 'h" proposed measure. which
was familiar to him Compensation for
injuries IN dangerous trades should h"
looked on as part OF ia" cost o' tnarinG
the artlci.
/ He said that consideration for others
ough, 10 actua,. th" employer aud that
. the NOR" an employer did for hi "ru-
plOvc"- the more profit h" made
/ Al this point Mr. taruegi" was inter
I rllp'ed bv applause from tl. labor union
members IN the hall IN" employer
i he continued. should show his employees
/ that II" had Il heart Mr. Carnegie brought
NOR. applause from the labor union
members hy saving that employers could
not 60 too far in meeting accidents 10
workers with sympathy and being gen
"rois IN compensation lie sad that
there was great need of uniform legi~-
latiOn IN ihe matter of compensation
for industrial accidents He owned no
stock now in III" lniisd States Steel ON
panv. tut II had acted with lhcraliiv
toward IL EMPLOYEES
] col Roosevelt arrived shortly after
ward and shook hands with Mr. tarnegi..
b before h" began Ia speak IL" SAID that
Il'' WISHED 10 prosper
q conservative leadership. especially III
Government action He wanted cvolu-
tIon. however: not revolution He b.-
liuv.d that wise leaders OF labor and far
sighted employers should unite for ler,--
laton that was for the common good
| H.. brliev,.d in collective rather than IN
'diNidua action He described Condi-
tons a century and IA quarter ago when,
h. said. a man could uui' his job and
-..'k another and get IL II was different
now The man wis not dealing with an
/ individual. but with "A larg. combination
Of individuals. with large corporations
| Their. arr no terms of equality in this
! case" h. continued and We have to
Great. an artificial entity to deal with III.
' corporations against which. a. corpora
| tion-. | ~ saying nothing If the ar,l-
| iiClal entity L. not arE" enough. thent nCie
| Sam should toe given the power to put his
( hand ou the shoulder of the corporation
and say, R good and you Will get JUS
! tIc., but If you ar. not good Of your own
accord, will make you
Col Roosevelt thought that there must
4 be more. not less. supervision of corpo-
rations The fellow servant rule by which
! Il man in the old days got no compensat ion
/ for injury caused hy fellow servant.
which was in force in the eighteenth CEN
! tury was not fair when applied to rail
! roads in the Present changed conditions.
| he said An engineer who was manned
! because bi an attittl1 caused bN lflt
| neglect of a swl'chman got no redress
/ That was mun-trou', and cruel His
! blood boiled, Ii" said when h" heard of
| many cases of the klud III" declared that
| ther" wtr" more poop" killed when "A
number OF high buildings w.r. built
| with steel skeletons than IN any war.
far more than in the Spanish America II
| war that he was engaged in The families
of these people had a. good right 10
compensation a. ,h. families Of soldiers
who died in battle He declared himself
strongly in favor Of the proposed com
pen-ation hill. which would do away with
| suits for damages. though il might spoil
the chances of the lawyers who wanted
! To undertake tn. suits n. then began to
! talk Of Capitalization of power. and caused!
"A laugh when he said:
Il remember last fan "
Tn. draft of the bill read bv Mr. Sher-
man was discussed 10y several other
speakers and n resolution was passed 10
the effect that constitutional aIthorlt V
should be- conferred on Congress and III.
legislatures of the several States TO legis-
lat. ,lnreserv.dly on lh" matters sought
to b. accomplished by the compensation
act, those in charg" Of it to h. urged 10
seek the proper legislation. II was also
decided 10 refer the draft of tn" act 10 the
"x"cu'iv. council of the federation ia
TAX" measures to bring about such legis-
iatiOn,