Bisbee daily review., 1913-12-05
CIVIC FEDERATION TURNS ITS HAND ID NATIONS PROBLEMS
Annual Meeting Will Take Up Report On Facts Se- cured From 25,000 Elm ployers and Workmen

O@S sNA@NA W VI ANAAASAA 
 NEW fOhn, Dec. 2.-The four teenth annual meeting of the Ma tional Ciyle Federation will be hsld at Hotel Astor on Dec. II and 12. The program will include reports from the various departments of the Federation involving many important propositions of national interest call | ing for discussion and action.
 These departments treat of such subjects as 'Workmen's Compensa- tion," Pure Food and Drugs, Con eillatton and Mediation Laws" "Wel. fare Work" 'Regulation of Munici- pal Utilities" and "Regulation of h. dustrial Corporations.
 | The importance and timeliness of discussion on these subjects are in- Sdcsted by the following extracts | from a statement sent to the mem- bers of the federation by Ralph NJ. Easley, chairman of its executive council
 ! The Department on Workmen's i Compensation has a commission Of ' six men making a study of the op- | eration of various workmen's com pensation laws. Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Wis eonsin, California, Oregon and Wash 1 Ington are states included in the h. vestigations and visited by members | of the commission. Its report will | contain the results of questionnaire sent to twenty-five thousand employ CTS and workmen in twelve states. 1 It is estimated that there are now | four million working men and wom- ! en in the United States having the legal right to be compensated if in- | jured in industry.
 The report of the Federation's com mission will indicate problems which | have arisen
 ! The "ambulance-thasing' doctor ! who has displaced the "shyster law yer" and what must be done to ob- viate the necessity of employers pay ing tg hospitals and physicians 90 per cent. of the amount received by i injured workmen and their families, i vii be gwen due attention.
 The main point of interest to the 1 working man is, how can he be guar 1 autged his compensation If incapacl- tated for life? Should the employer no matter how well established, be denied the right to carry his own FISK ! and compelled to insure? Is there any proDer safeguard against insoly- epcv in the event of grave disaster to a large plant?
 Inadequacy in the laws of states where unscrupulous employers nave eyaaed their responsibilities by pay ing only 50 per cent. of what the Ia" reouires: the importance of having tbe award made directly by the em- hover instead of the insurance com panv. the method of insurance : whether state, individual, mutual by liability company, CT all four forms,
 minimum and maximum amount ol connensation to be allowed the ln- iured: necessity for uniformity or cost to employers bstweeu competing states. and the ehect of workmeh 5 compensation laws upon accident pre- veutscu and upon the relation Oe' tween employer and tks employed together with the yiews Of both claSS' es will be covered in this report
 The securing of pure food ana
 a-.a- Cor inc American people is one of the most important questions TOT
 consideration today
 Recent exposures in New AoEA'
 philadelphia, Chicago and other Iarps cities indicate the magnitude
 and far-reaching character of the VI
 citation of the food and drugs laws
 Tot only are the poor defrauded Oy
 adulterated and impure food put thes
 are also cheated as to measureiieii''
 .,5 weights. The monthly builetihs
 issped by the Unitec 5tates Depare- D,sDt of Agriculture record hundreds
 of convictions for violation oi 'Ee
 Ppre Food Act, which were gehera.'y
 .acr-ea on confession of guilt " the ~,.npfacturers or dealers that the
 
 rcod product consisted in part ot eIthv decomposed and Putrid animal
 gDbstance unfit for human eonsuiap sufficient to arouse the indighaU'on v : lion Such disclosures as these are
 an oood citizens. When it become
 aHoasssrv s for a physician, after wriv
 ing a prescription. to stipuiate tns' '. ! sbau be mace np cniy at certain . is | ,,sbls drug stores, fer the reason 'n'' ma ~ .So-o can be no assurance that ths
 shs,ves of other drug stores are no, aned with drugs either aaui'si a,S S'.. z.
 xith harmful ingredients or so 1o'~ hs
 ,o have lost their strength, .on It 2.
 so0ves the layman to take person
 .i interest in this matter sis''