The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-03
DECLARES Green
MEASURE FAULTY
Secretary Of Equity Association
Points Out Flaws.
EXPLAINS THE INITIATED BILL

| acted hy Legislature Does Net Pro-
tect All Workmen Is Assertion Of C..
S. Conawer of cIeveand-Show-
How lnsoIvent or Ju2gment-Procf
Employer Can Escape Payment For
Injuries.
Columbus, o. - ,Spec;al) - The
statement has been made tfat the
Green act only purpcrts to provide
compulsory compensation for injme1
employees and fc" tie dependents Of
killed employees. IN proCf Of that op
ponents cite section - Of the Green
act. which reads:
"The state Liability board Of awards
shall disburse tie state insurance
fund to such employees OF employers
as have paid into such fund the pre-
miums applicable to the classes %
which they belong, ctc.'
That plainly means" says c. s.
Gongwer secretary Of the OHIO Equity
association. THAT the injured employe
of an employer who has not paid viii
not get a penny from the state. But,
the proponents of the Green act claim,
if the employer has not paid into the
7 state fund it is because he is carrying
his own compensation insurance or IS
| paying into a mutual; so the injured
employe will get his compensation
| from one or the other. That is q
| doubtful guarantee of compensation
and the Green act recognizes =
to be such as is shown by the
| language Of section q. In this sec
| tion it is provided that an employe
injured, or the dependents of an EN-,
| ploye killed, in the service of an en-
| ployer who has not made any arrange,
ment for the compensation of his EN-,
| ployes, may file his claim for COM
| pensation with the state board. The
| latter will determine how much the
| injured emplUye is entitled to and viii!
order his employer to pay him. If the
employer fails or refuses the state
board, through the attorney general,
l. will then try to collect. If the state
collects then, and only then. the in
jured man will get his compensation.
If the employer is insolvent or judg
ment-proof the injured employe will
never get penny.
10 +ho Of ~
for injured employees that the Green
act provides compensation only
when the employer is willing to pay
or can be made to pay And the tax
spenders call the Green act a COM
pulsory' compensation measure that
| guarantees definite, absolute sum
to every injured employe and to the
dependents of killed employee
"How does the proposed act meet
this situation? 1t automatically places
in the state fund every employer OF
five or more workmen or operatives
who has not, within 80 days after the
act takes effect, arranged to compen
safe his employees by carrying his own
insurance, or by going into stock
company or mutual Every such EN-
| ployer is then subject to a suit by the
state for the collection of the pre-
miums due from him to the state
fund. Every employe Of such an en-
| ployer, meeting with an accident, may
make his claim on the state fund, an:
out of it he must be compensated i'm
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the state has col
lected' its premiums or not. The state
if it has not already collected from
the employer, may, after compensat
ing the injured employe, bring sui
and collect if it can. If it does col
lect it is entitled also to a penalty y
so per cent of the amount OF the pre-
MUM.
where employers are insolvent o.
iudgment-proof somebody must lose
The Green act makes the injured
employe the loser. The proposed ac
makes the state insurance fund tn
loser.
"HoW otherwise can compulsor
compensation be compulsory comper
sation?
Under the proposed act no en-
J ployer is required to pay anythin
into the state insurance fund or int
the state reserve fund, unless h
elects to compensate his men by tina
method. If he elects one of the othe
three methods provided he must hay
the approval of the state insuranc
commissioner. All premium rates
whether charged by the state, by
mutual or a stock company, are inc
fective and imperative until approve
} by the supe rintendent of insurance
This is to prevent the state doing bu'
ness below cost, which would mea
4cr to employers and employe
it's jurisdiction, and, to preven
competition on the part of M
5 and stock companies.
TIE proposed act has three pr
mary purposes: To compensate ever
injured employe, to protect the stat
fund against abuses, to protect en-
ployers against unnecessary burden
and possible ruin.
Under the proposed measure en-
ployers are subjected to the sam
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