The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-15
COMPENSATION BILL FOR WAGE WORKERS
 PASSES SENATE--A GOOD BEGINNING

The McDonough bill for worlmen's compensation passed the Senate yesterday except minor changes to clerical The manage nent of the bill on the floor was entrusted to Senate Chairman cDonough who has had large part in the formulation of the His presentation of the facts involved was clear and masterly The final vote was unanimous and the bill then despatched to the House suspension of the rules There is no reason why should pass just it leaves the Senate The bill is not perfect bill. It does not grant full of industrial justice 1t IS compromise meas uponits It is optional b but there are ele comnl1lsorv The employer who does under 1t fight the courts without to the ancient and barbarous defenses of fellow servant risk of the ps mess and contributory negligence.
 With these defenses in being few indeed have been ed employment Those who did recover were ire quent years in litigation and most of what they received eS css Psad to lawyers ana TOT 'ne 0r court pro
 TTdlr is man who is hurt by the act of afeo cannot get pay for his injuries Neither ~ He is also 1a1red iftRe injury from which he died incent to the nature of the industry at which he
 These Barriers were brought over from ancient and rder days remnants of the time when the laborer was little more than a serf The very principle upon centuries wien the fife of knight was rated higher than the life of clur1 and small fine might be the penalty for killing the latter while death small penalty for killing the former.
 The system which is attempted to be installed by the cDonough b behind it all the savage past It is based upon modern principles of social justice It assumes that life IS priceless and cannot be when taken It also that the worker in dustry social servant and that if destroyed while society, he dependents, ghf to be degree sufficient to keep them from being social ly submerged The principle is identical with that under which soIiersin pensioned, their widows who survive them.
 Under this bill when it becomes law the injured workman will receive immediate aid, and early compensa tion in known stated degree according to the tent of his injury and the amount of his disability If he is killed his dependents will be compensated in the degree. But there will be tresome litigation inter minabIe delays and no great expense.
 The money will be paid to whom it be1ongs-usually i the form of annuity for term of and the in jured persons the dependents of the dead person. will getdb and get ft all
 Thecost of this humane plan " not be much greater ha1fEhecost of doing what is done That cost what if is will not rest upon the employer will charged Into the cost of the goods the employer sells socfetyxgfH pay the bill
 There win be Installed a4great wise and humane plan cost In a little while will wonder how they were eve$satfsfied with the old, savage way.
 If the bill is opposed to the pockets the interest any set men, those the lawyers is therefore to the especial credit of the committee m itreported ths favorably and unanimous 1 In making such report the lawyers of which the Eonn1tee is entirely composed stripping them selves of large fees in the future So, set down long credit the lawyers.
 Senator McDonough, chairman of the committee, 1yer and has been early and foremost in advocacy which commonly referred his
 Jointly with the committee judiciary sat the tiftee labor of which Senators J. McA Johnson Neebe are1nember This committee entitled credit for the b indebted to and whose masterly analysis of the recently ap peared in The Farmer
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