The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1912-05-03
HOT STUFF FROM THE
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
Industrial Insurance Commissioner Wal
lace UnCOvers the Bug

as vampires" the ambulance-cha-
sers as "vultures" and the Wood &
Reber advertising agency as an in
teresting bunch of journalistic high
binders" Commissioner John H. Wal
lace, labor member of the Industrial
Insurance Commission, paid his re-
spects to-day to the agencies who are
seeking, for purely mercenary con-
siderations, to discredit the Work
mems Compensation Act.
my attention has been calico"
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. l
refer to the article headed Everybody
Stands Pat which first appeared in
the Seattle Town Crier, owned by
Wood & Reber.
This article criticised the Attorney
General for not suing the DUPONT
Powder Company, reflected on the su-
preme court and the State of Washing
ton and was in general about as nasty
a piece OF misrepresentation and inu-
endo as has appeared in the press OF
Washington for years.
IT say it was paid for by the casual
ity companies. Perhaps I ought to be
more specific and say the American
Casualty Company, because we are
informed by newspaper men who
know their business that Wood & Re-
Der are being paid by this particular
casualty company to put out all the
stuff antagonistic to this law that they
can get the state press to stand for.
why doesn't the Attorney-Gen-
eral sue the DUPONT Company" con-
tinued Mr.. Wallace. Because he
intends to make the DUPONT pay with
out suing them; because the same
questions involved in the DUPONT case
is involved in the Frye-Bruhn case
of Seattle, the Superior Portland Gem
ent case of Concrete and the Lost
Mountain Timber case of Kalama; be-
cause the state has already gained a
substantial advantage in these cases
and will win them hands down; be-
cause it takes time and costs money to
go to the supreme court of the United
States; beause he intends to get de-
cisions in these other cases, sustaining
the act in every particular, and when
he does, DUPONT will either settle with
costs and interest or go into court
without a leg to stand on.
Il want to say to the people of this
state that its supreme court is enti-
tied to the respect of every man, wo-
man and child within its borders, and
when Mr.. Reeves Anymore affronted
this court by appearing before it as
the alleged attorney for Christian Ros-
bach, he was really the paid agent of
the American Casualty Company and
didn't give rap whether old Rosbach
got his pension or not. You remem-
Der what the supreme court said to
Mr.. Anymore. 1t said he was in pc
culiar position and that's fairly severe
for supreme court.
This whole uproar about suing the
DuPonts comes from the agents of the
casualty companies. They are not
worrying about the poor pensioners
whose bread winners were burned to
death in the Chehalis disaster They're
worrying about the fat profits that have
gone a-glimmering since the Work
mems Compensation Act became a
success. They're signing for the $10,-
900, 1000 they collected from the indus
tries of the state in 1910, only $780,
900 of which ever came back to the
injured workmen.
Il want to tell you that every dol
lar 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 it for the vampires Of the cas-
ualty companies or the vultures Of the
law that have sucked the blood of our
struggling industries and cheated our
workmen Of their just dues for the
past ten years. That's what they're
hou,l;oo about