The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-01

| legs or arms, and an injury to the skull
resulting in ineurable imbeeility or in
sanity.
Where temporary total disability re-
suits from any injury the compensation
shall be 50 per centum of the monthly
wages of the injured employe during the
continuance of such temporary total dis
ability
II the permanent partial disability class
The amount Of compensation depends upon
tie nature of the injury. For instance,
fer the loss of an arm at or above the
elbow joint, or the permanent and COM
pete loss of the use of one arm, the
Injured employe gets so per cehtum OF
mis- monthly wage for Y months. For one
hand, 81 months; for one leg, 66 months; !;
fsr one foot, IS months; for the permanent
and complete loss of hearing III both ears,
= months, and for the same in one ear.
Sc months. And so on down to the
fingers, the fourth finger coming down 20
80 per centum of his monthly wage for
five months. The big toe draws nine
months on half pay, and any other toe,
four months.
Temporary Partial Disability
When temporary partial disability re-
suits from an injury the employe If he is
Unable to secure work. shall receive 90
rer centum of his wages during the con-
tinuanee of such disability; but such pay
ment shall not extend beyond the period
fixed for payment for permanent partial
disabilities of the same character; and
If the employe refuses to work after suit
able work is furnished or secured for him
by the employer, he shall not be en-
titled to any compensation for such dis
ability during the continuance of such re-
fnsal.
The employer may continue the injured
employee in his services at suitable work,
l.p ha
and continues in his employers service
compensation in any case of injury shall
be suspended while the injured employe is
at such work, for which he receives
wages which do not fall below 90 per-
centum OF the wages he was receiving at
tile time of the accident. If his wages
fall below 80 percentum an amount of
compensation shall be payable which shall
bring the total of wages and compensa-
tion up TO the 90 percentum Of his original
ray.
nfcase of death Of the employe, result
inging from accident, the schedules of
payment vary considerably in percentage,
according to those dependent upon him,
but in all cases the payments, however
fxed run for a period of eight years, ex-
cept In those cases where the deceased
| mas child or children under 16 years
| of age In all cases the payments run
| eight years, or until the youngest child
| is 16 years of age. In the case of a
widow and no child, or no dependent
child, there shall be paid to the widow DO
percentum of the monthly wages for eight
| years If there are dependent children, or
/ even one child, so pr centum If there is
no widow but dependent child, % per-
centum, and 10 per centum for each addi-
| tiorals child.
The bill. of course, will be subject TO
amendrnents and indeed at the time this
| is written, there are several minor ones
pending in the committee, one of which
is that employe may have the option of
accepting the settlement as provided in
this bill or bringing suit to recover dam
ages in the civil courts. 1t is .ardly prob
able that this amendment will prevail