The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-05-03
Olympia, April 30, 1912.

from a rubber boot Ihan III Is TO sep
arate CRATER from the throat of an
infant industry"
Designating the casualty companies as
Vampires the ambulance chasers as
"vultures" and the Wood 4 Reber ad-
vertising agency as an interesting bunch
of journalistic highbinders,' Commission
er John H. Wallace labor member of
the industrial insurance commission,
paid his respects today to the agencies
who are seeking for purely mercenary
considerations. to discredit the work
mems compensation act.
My attention has been called" said
Commissioner Wallace, 'to a piece of
paid publicity that a few of the editors
of the state press fell for last week and
reprinted as news. ! refer to the article
headed Everybody Stands Pat, which
first appeared in the Seattle Town Crier.
owned by Wood & Reber, paid publicity
promoters, and was afterwards sent out
by them to the state press and paid for
by the casualty companies.
This article criticised the attorney
general for not suing the Du Pont Pow
der company, reflected on the supreme
court and the state of Washington and
was in general about as nasty a piece
of misrepresentation and inuendo as has
in the press of Washington for
years.
Il say it was paid for by the casualty
companies. Perhaps | ought to be more
specific and say the American Casualty
company, because we are informed by
newspaper men who know their business
that the Wood & Reber outfit is being
paid by this particular casualty com
pany to put out all the stuff antagon-
istic to this law that they can get the
stae press to stand for. | am glad to
say that very few state editors took the
bait held out by this interesting bunch
of journalistic highbiuders.
why doesn't the attorney general sue
the Du Pont company?' continued Mr.
Wallace. Because he intends to make
Du Pont pay without suing them; be
cause the same questions involved in the
Du Pont case are involved in the Frye
Bruhn case of Seattle, the Superior
Portland Cement case of Concrete and
the Lost Mountain Timber case of Ka-
lama; because the state has already
gained substantial advantage in these
cases and will win them hands down;
because it takes time and costs money
to 90 to the supreme court of the United
States; because he intends to get de
cisions in these other cases, sustaining
the act in every particular. and when he
does, Du Pont will either settle with
costs and interest or go into court with
out leg to stand on.
Il want to say to the people of this
state that its supreme court is entitled
to the respect of every man, woman and
child within its borders, and when Alr
Reeves Anymore affronted this court by
before it as the alleged attor-
ney for Christian Rosbach. he was really
the paid agent of the American Casu-
atty company and didn't give a rap
whether old ROsbach got his pension or
not. You remember what the supreme
court said to Mr.. Aylmore. 1t said he
was in a peculiar position and that
fairly severe for a supreme court. And
now Wood & Reber have the imperial
nerve to add their bilious babblings in
reflection on this great tribunal,
This whole uproar about suing the
Du Points comes from the agents of the
casualty companies. They aren't worry
ing about the poor pensioners whose
breadwinners were burned to death in
the Chehahs disaster They're worry
ing about the fat profits that have gone
a a-glimmering since the workmen's COM
pensation act became success They're
signing for the 100000 they collected
from the industries of the state in 1910,
only 100000 of which ever came back
to the injured workmen.
81 want to tell you that every dollar
of the half million that the state has
collected into the accident fund goes to
the poor fellows that are hurt in the
dangerous industries of this state or to
their widows or dependents There is
no profit in it. There's no graft in il
for the vampires of the casualty com.
panies OF the vultures of the law that
have sucked the blood of our struggling
industries and cheated our workmen o.
their just dues for the past ten years
That's what they're bowling about.
1T is easier to seperate bull pun
from rubber boot than it is to sep
arate a CRATER from the throat of al
infant industry.
"Why, our files are cholSed with tn
dope that these casualty companies ar
putting out against this law of ours. no
only in this state but everywhere be
tween the 49th parallel and the Gulf q
Mexico The Budget, printed in Bait
more for the Maryland Casualty con