The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-17
W0RKINCMEN'S
 COMPENSATION
And Old Age Pensions Brewers Association at
 Work on These Problems

Chicago, Oct. 16.-The discussion
 of an elaborate system of working
 men's compensation and old age pen slons will form one of the most i'm
 portant phases of the convention of . the United States Brewers associa- t1on, which opens with the annual
 meeting of the Board of Trustees, Wednesday,, Oct. IS. The engaging g
 or an expert to investigate all phases
 Of the great problem, with the ulti-
 mate aim of establishing a national agreement for the compensation of injured wOrkmen marks a great step
 in advance by this organization. The
 United States Brewers association is
 the first organizatio to take up this
 problem in such detail, and its ex-
 ample will doubtless be followed by many other great employers organ izations. The question has been un- der consideration for years, but since the 1910 convention. Edward Bun nell Phelps, statistician and political economist of national renown, has 1 been making a summary of the pos
 abilities of the proposed plan.
 1 In his report to be read at this l convention. Mr Phelps will outline the results based upon the collection | of specific returns from 16,374 mem-, | bers of the International Union of I ca. Working on the basis of these
 reports which record the accidents re- ceived in the industry for two years previous to the making of the com
 pilation, MT. Phelps makes estimates l under various ratings of the cost or
 such a plan, and finds it considerably. | cheaper than employers liability in- | surance, and he believes the results worked out in the brewing industry will prove model for much new | }nx, fha nf i'm o. mems insurance.
 The question of industrial insur-- ance, however, is only one of the many features of the convention. The | United States Brewers association is | conducting model brewery in con- neetion with the convention and the, brewers exposition held at the same l time, in which the public is given an opportunity to follow the entire pro- cess of brewing, showing how beer tary conditions, this miniature brew cry carrying the process from the en- l zine room, through the brew house. refrigeration plant, in fact through every part of the process to the bot tling. even through to the disposal of the by-products, without being touch- ed throughout by the human hand. Another display of the United States Brewers association at the eX- position is the statistical exhibit in series of charts which occupy the en- l tire wall space of the first floor of the First Regiment Armory. Fifty
 one charts will be shown, each be- ing about six by four feet. All of the charts are compiled from 1ndis- putable official figures. It is prob ably the most complete exhibit of the kind that has been shown by any in-
 dustry in this country. The charts are arranged in varying vertical and hOriZOnf9l eye, and they are so simple that they speak for themselves, and need no eX- planation. They are arranged in thir- teen groups, which deal with the mag nitude and importance of the brewing industry, the revenue therefrom, the production and consumption of beer,
 and the relation of prohibition to in sanity, pauperism, and crime, etc.
 An important part of the brewers congress in which the United States Brewers association will take an inn portant part is the section meeting onsl sociology and physiology, with Hugh
 F. Fox, secretary of the United States Brewers association as chairman, and he will open the discussion with paper on ''The Saloon Problem fol- lowed by discussions by c. G. Kidder, chairman of a committee of the Ma tional Municipal League appointed to study the municipal aspects of the liquor question, and by M. \. Clement, former New York state excise com missioner, one of the delegates ap- pointed by President Taft for the An ti-AlcOhol congress at The Hague. Other speakers will be Cyrus w. Da- wis, Maine's secretary of state, on the prohibition fight there; August Linde- mann of Milwaukee on the Wisconsin idea of regulating the liquor traffic, 1 Bertrand A. Smalley of Boston on the 1 psychology of brewery advertising, H. E. O. Heinemann on Beer and Dietet- ics, and Callus Thomann on the ini- Gative and referendum in Switzer- land. It is expected that European delegates will add their personal views | of the problem in Europe to the dis | cussion
 The result of recent prohibition cam paigns in various states will be an i'm portant phase of the convention. l Speaking on this subject Hugh F. Fox secretary of the association, says in an interview:
 ''The real lesson of the prohibition | campaigns of the past year is that | the cities and the important towns are in revolt against the policy of pro- hibition, and will not allow the peo- pie in the rural districts to impose oppressive measures upon them against their own will The defeat of prohibition during the past year in Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Oregon ana TexaS indicates that the prohibi- tion movement has spent it's force"
 MT. Fox says that it is now recog- nized that the express companies and i the Boston wholesalers sent hundreds of speakers into the field in Maine to oppose the removal of the prohibition ists.
 The trustees report will take up the details of the fight against prohibition and the advocacy of the regulated sa- loon as true move for temperance. President Carl Hoster in his annual address will also urge the brewers to work for the uplift of the saloon bus iness, and the abolition of the dive and low saloon as the greatest foe of the brewery industry
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