The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-10
The state Of Minnesota and is EN-.


ployes are not exempted from the
!. terms Of the new workmen's com.
pensation act, but there is no way
for state employees to collect ben
efits under the act, according to
Insurance Commissioner J. A. O..
Preus. The state laws do not author
lie the payment of state money FOR
such a PURPOSE, and the state cannot
be sued by a citizen 9t73.
! The first accident report on the
books of the state labor department
under the compensation act was filed
yesterday It. is. that of Miss Tessie
Finkelstein, whose toes were. crushed
yesterday while riding in an elevator
of the Brown &c BigeloW company,
st. Paul Her wages, are Sc a week
and her compensation while disabled
will be $6sa week, the minimum
amount under the law. The report
was filed by her employers.
As a companion measure to the
worlsmen's compensation act, new
and stringent law for the safeguard
ing of machinery went into effect
yesterday.
Boiler insurance Is Problem.
] The effect of boiler and fly wheel
insurance on employers liability in
slranQe viii be considered at con-
ference in the office of insurance
Commissioners ]. A. o. Preus at 10
a. m. Saturday Insurance men, labor
representatives and all interested
persons have been invited by Mr..
Prens TO attend The last legislature
in addition TO the workmen's. com.
pensation law, passed chapter AS
an act for the INCORPORATION Of var
ious kinds or insurance companies
including boiler insurance Small
concerns having boiler insurance viii
be protected against accidents due to
q defective boiler Mr.. Preus ,ex
planned, but as to other, accidents
/ which may. happen in the plant this
!, kind of insurance would not protect
them The possible conflict between
the two laws has been noted, ana
at the conference this will be dis
cussed to determine whether there
is conflict, and il SO, how it may be
femedied.
Compensated by Minnesota.
= Members on the state board o
control, which has supervision owe
most of the state employees, express
, ed themselves today in favor O
placing the state employees under tn,
) COMPENSATION act, by some definit,
legislation that will. include provision
for payments. They said that tn,
state has been fairly generous. il
. compensating. for injuries received ii
the line of duty, but in each cas-,
. it has to be done, by the legislator,
: with the specific appropriation. Allow
5ances of this kind made by the las
legislature are as follows:
, DR.. E. J. Davis, surgeon at
81 state soldiers home, for serious
Is. and permanent physical disability
Il resulting from arsenical poison
ing while In performance of his
= official duties. $1,000. .4. ;.
Il G., W. sherman, for. injuries
received while an employee of
the Fergus Falls state hospital,
, $500. -. ,,5t.- s....
Relief of Mrs. Julius Pagen-
! kept for death of her son, Henry
! Pagenkopf from diphtheria con
tracted while at Camp Lakeview
in the summer of 1904 with his.
regiment, $1,000. :,
= Relief of Charles NJ. Price for
injuries received while with his
! regiment at Camp Lakeview,
i, July II, 1912, $500. NJ. - g.
3. William G. King, for medical
aid and surgeons fees and loss
/ of time on account of injury
6, sustained while in employ !, of
!. state immigration bureau; $500.
! Mrs, Cornelia T. Collins, daugh-
4 ter of Mrs. Mary 1. Stark
! weather who died in office as. as
5 sistant commissioner Of labor,
! $500.
E Adelaide E. Harding, widow,
., for death of Cyrus b. Harding
while working as an employee of
/ the State Agricultural society,",
/ $4,000. <,5 - 's%at RI 80
I w. Fl. Heinhart, for injuries
! received while in state employ,
$3.50. 81
The law should make a provision
. for relief Of state employees who ar
t injured, or for their dependents il
: case of DEATH said Insurance Con
! missioner Preus. For my part
!; cannot see any good reason why tn
!, state should not be sued. State EN-
!, ployes in the past have been con
J pensated by special act of the legis
g llature for injuries received in til
| state, service, Int without any def
o mite rule for such payments, and j
Q would be much better to, provide i,
regular method of settlement ais tn
COMPENSATION act. provides
Corn Growers to .lsleet.
J The Nicollet and LIE Sueur .Cour
: ties Corn Growers association wi
I hold its annual fall meeting in tn
1 court house in st. Peter on .Saturda
J, afternoon, October II, at Two o,cloel
Y The meeting has been called b
i President p. E. Oleson and Secretar
g Stewart Leaning for the purpose q
talking over the plans, for the thir
annual corn show to be held thi
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