Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-31
James NJ. Lynch Says Greater
knowledge Means Better
Legislation on Subject.
INSURANCE IN UNIONS
DISCUSSED IN ADDRESS
With Others. He Speaks at Session
of American Association for
Labor Legislation.

The limelight of publicity is at pres
ent beating on the hazards of industrial
life. and the greater the amount Of
knowledge spread on such matters the
better will be the results in the work
or their legislative prevention, said
James NJ. Lynch, New York state labor
commissioner aid formerly president
Of the international Typographical
Union, IN addressing this mornings
session of the American Association
for Labor Legislation at the Shoreham.
Mr.. Lynch's paper traced the develop
ment of accident and sickness insur-
ance in the trades unions and gave an
insight into these matters from the
standpoint of industrial workers.
In all twenty-five states have, since the
enactment of the employers liability act.
adopted accident insurance laws. and
sickness insurance legislation is sure to
follow. 1t is stated.
Every workman in the steel industry
has the expectation of nine days lost by
sickness, as against but four by accident.
was stated by Joseph P. Chamberlain of
New York. Sick benefit funds among
industrial workers were described by w.
L. Chandler of the Dodge Manufacturing
Company of Mishawaka, Ind, who de-
clared that the time is ripe at least to
treble the effectiveness of these funds.
Among other speakers were Lee K.
Frankel of New York, Henry J. Harris
of the Library of Congress. Rheinhold
B. Koch of Philadelphia, Miles NJ. Daw-
SON of New York and Frank O'Hara of
st. Louis.
Henry r. Seager Elected President.
AT the annual business meeting which
| preceded the mornings session Henry
r. Seager of New York was elected pres
ident Of the association and Henry w.
Farnam of New Haven honorary presi-
| dent. John b. Andrews of New York
was reelected secretary. and Adolph
Lewisohn of New York treasurer. Prom
inent among several vice presidents are
Miss Jane Addams of Chicago and Louis
d. Brandeis of Boston. The executive
committee is composed of the following
| members: John r. Commons of Madison,
Wis; Charles P. Neill, Paul Kellogg and
John Mitchell oil of New York: F. l.
Hoffman of Newark. N j. Ernst Freund
of Chicago, and Henry S. Dennison OF
Boston.
| In addition to the election of officers
| for the ensuing year and of delegates to
the international Congress of the ASso-
citation for Labor Legislation in SwitZer-
| land in 1914, the reports of the various
state associations and of the committees
were submitted, with resolutions. Among
| the more important ones adopted was
| that of the committee on standard and
schedules and tabulations, which pro.
| tests against the proposed abandonment,
OF the tabulation and analysis of the oc-
cupatiOnal data of the thirteenth census
| and urgently calls upon Congress tc
make. without delay, the required provi
sion for preparation and publication.
resolution which pledges the associa
| ton to work increasingly for the enact
ment of the Kern compensation bill was
| adopted. and another expressing tn,
hearty sympathy of the organization with
| the object of the bill now in Congress t.
create a bureau of labor safety in the De
partment of Labor were also adopted.
Little Better Than Slaves.
| The association reconvened this after
| noon at O'Clock under the presidency 0,
Secretary of Commerce Redfield. THAI
| the twelve-hour laborers have no time
| for recreation, for friends or family, ant
| are little better than slaves to the ma
chimes they operate, was asserted by DIR
| Basil NJ. Manly, special agent of the
United States bureau of labor in investi
cation of conditions Of employment il
! the iron and steel industries.
That "a man doing active or labOrious
J, work can do as much in eight hours as
| he can do in twelve" was claimed by s
| of Louisville, KY, who has an eight-houi
shift in operation in his mill. Austin B.
Garretson, president of the Order Of Rail
! way Conductors. condemned long hou7s
| in railroading Unconstitutional Aspects
| of Hour Legislation For Men, was the
| title of an address by Ernst Freund OF
| the University of Chicago Law School.
Merely AFFECT Slavery"
| Merely abject slavery, n1asqueradine
under the name of freedom" was Prof
| w. F. Willoughby's characterization of the
called liberty of dependent women and
| helpless children to work long hours and
| under any conditions. The declaration
was made in the course of an address
before the joint session of the American
| Association for Labor Legislation, of
which Prof. Willoughby is president,
and the American Political Science AS
ISOLATION, at the Shoreham last night.
Prof. Willoughby in his address dis
cussed the growing tendency to look to
the state as the only agent through
which to obtain real freedom for all
of society.
Labor legis1ationists,' he said. base
their efforts on the sound philosophy
that there are social as well as in
dividual duties. They adhere to the