The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-08

There should be any doubt as to the passage o1 generally admitted that system of mere employers liability meet the cond tions of modern industry with all it's elaborate coex 9
 and personaI forces Half of the accidents III industry are the inherent hazards of trade Io1
 which person is really responsible W11 b bne lack cuty, mpossiblty of fixing respons1ply, Ie l of fighting strength the injured and other it is computed than about case m Cen is there any compensation received on account or but the pain and misery, the poverty and the pler
 A system of compensation is better, in every way Setting aside questions of personal faul It aims to vide, certainly and promptly, hlGed nraccalv ali injuries of any seriousness at all While there be awards of the amount recovered m dam
 great acueness that such regular and prompt pay rnents made worth great deal more so tne workers than the very doubtful right of suing ones em- ulovr Compensation eliminates litigation giving to the
 injured persons about all that the employer has to pay Tt a71oes the present speculative Of industry into somewhat larger but definitely measurable fixed charge which carried into the costs and the prices
 Here, to -sure the community the guise of con uoer bears the charge why not9 The community bears cheerfy the costs of broken machinery why not the costs of broken and woeng And, then too, It is o11iv a new and humaner method of carrying. For
 when men are crippped and families broken up, the den born somewhere. Which IS better to pear the burden recognized part of the cost of pfoducpon or as taxes for the support of the poor2 s
 Of course there is but one answer. For quarter Vtem in Europe in Australia in South Africa, Cam ada, and in South America Already 15 American states have adopted the sysem and dozen more considering actior we in Connecticut are doing. Here, other states all interests are now agreed e ployers and workers alike demanding aW. Nothing certain than that it cannot much longer he members of the present General Assembly oppor tnit share of the finest pieces of advanced leg isation the state will see in this generation
 vatsm In form it is of the so-called optional sort In default of fair certainty that direct copuson upon el- ployers workers to pay and accept the limited pensations could be given good basis the optional bills change the present common law of liability in such to constrain acceptance of the pensation system Nearly all of the present American statutes of this sort and especially in the industrial
 1t has been the purpose the fraers of the bill
 
 sions of the Connecticut bi far might be found practicable to the provisions of laws already in force in other states For such there two good req sns legal grounds law is certain to safely through the courts than law with many novel featres and certainly do not like to think of our bill being thrown out invalid Then too, Connect1cIt in close industrial competition with other states and there will be danger some at the least in putting on our indus tries much heavier burden than their competitors carry The main thing is to law, good law of and the best law possible but some sort of good law at any rate Then after few of t11a will be the time to consider whether not more liberal and should be incorporated.
 of putting his state abreast of the world in this vastly important matter will fail to support the pending bill Not every one expect to have bill exactly to his fancy particulars should show his fairness in his readiness to compromise may perhaps, be allowed to that the present bill by no means cudes and excludes just what believe should be included and excluded; but very anxious to it made law, for all that.
 Do not suppose that think the bill bad one. On the other hand it is good fair average American spects it is liberal rather advanced; regards it is conservative For instance, happy fea- ture of the bill is it's coprehensveness Few of the Amer ican acts have wider scope No classes of employment except that in outwork and casual employment ex cuded in terms although the exemption of employers having regularly less than five employees will in practice, exclude albut very few of the farmers and all few domestic establishments If compensation is good thing, the broader it is made the better
 In the compensation assigned to injuries of detail in American practice although there not many wide dvergencies And the Connecticut bill is l as Just about an average bill It is possibly one V