The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-14
MORRIS IS NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR BY ACCL
Third Party Platform Adopted at the Ogden Contention

rates, without discrimination. The
courts do not possess the necessary
machinery TO give relief.
Reasonable rates can only be deter
mined after and with reference 10 the
physical valuation OF the corporate
properties.
The courts can only enjoin an un-
reasonable rate, but they cannot sub"
stitute a reasonable one for the con-
demned rate.
1t requires active vigilance to secure
proper service and facilities.
The state needs puollc service
humble citizen and small municipality
or the one hand and the puolic cor
poration on the other. in order that
exact justice may be done all parties
Concsred
The expenses OF this commission
should be borne by the PUBLIC service
corporations exclusively. without an
increase In general taxation
Workmen's Compensation Act
Our law regarding employers liabill-
ties for Injury To workmen is archaic
ard unjust, and the resulting condi-
tions have loug been insufterable. The
rules or law referred TO grew up be-
fore the age OF machinery. and at
time when laborcrs toiled with their
hands or manual tools and when there
were no necessary hazards OF employ
ment; these rules are absolutely un-
suited TO modern times and conditions.
Under this system the total risk OF
the hazards of dangerous industries
fails with crushing weight upon the
ma!med workman or his widow and
orphans-the persons least able to
bear the burden.
While many OF these injuries are
preventable, and every means should
be used to reduce them to an irreduci-
bic minimum, still those remaining are
the price Of our industrial greatness.
"a
money. must be paid by the whole
community
The employer must bo made liable
on fixed scale. regardless Of tho
common-law doctrines OF negligence,
contributory negligence. fellow servant
and assumed risk
That the full benefits Of the work.
mems s compensation law. when passed,
may go TO the injured man and his
family with all possible speed. and
without dividing up with attorneys,
runners and others, the administra-
tion Of this law should be taken out
of the courts and placed with an ad-
ministration board.
No state In the west needs such
law more than the state Of Utah. Yet
the Republican state platform urges
the passage OF a federal workman's
compensation law. but it is silent re-
Earding the needs OF our own state.
Social and Industrial Justice.
The supreme duty OF the state Is tho
conservation of human resources.
through enlightened measures, OF So
cial and industrial Justice. We pledge
ourselves TO work increasingly for.
]. Effective legislation looking to
the prevention OF industrial accidents.
occupational diseases. overwork. In
voluntary Unemployment, and other
Injurious effects incident to modern
industry.
.. The fixing OF minimum safety
and health standards for the various
occupations.
8. The prohibition OF child labor.
4 Minimum wage standards for
working women, to provide Il living
scale IN. all industrial occupations.
3. One days rest In seven for all
wage earners.
6. The eiGht-hour day In continu
Gus twentyfourhou industries.
Z The application OF prisoners
earnings 10 the support Of their de-
pendent families and OF the dependent
families OF their victims.
s. Publicity as 10 wages. hours
and conditions OF labor; full reports