New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-20
Albany Hearing on Proposed
Laws to Aid Workmen En-
livened by Bitter Words.
EMMETT SHARPLY ATTACKED
Insurance Head Charged with
Lobbying for Foley Walker
Measure-LabOr Wants
Murtaugh Act.

afternoon and tonight manufacturers.
accident insurance men. labcriHG men and
their representatives from this state and
state industrial accident insurance COM
( inssioners from four other states.
wranglod over the workmen's compensa-
ton bills at a joint hearing before the
Senate and Assembly insurance commit
! tees.
Two special trains. each bringing four
hundred manufacturers, came 20 Albany
from New York and Buffalo. They wore
/ badges announcing that they were for the
! Foley-Walkcr bill. backed by Superiu
tendcut Emmett. Of the state Insurance
Department
When they crowded into the Senate
chamber they foand it already partly
filled with representatives of labor organ
izations affiliated with the State Fedora
ton Of Labor, which is behind the bill in
PRODUCED by Senator Murtaugh and As
semb.y man Jackson. of Buffalo. prOvid-
ing fog state insurance fund. Sitter
feeling between the advocates o. the two
measures was manifested throughout the
= nearing.
y feature was personal attack on
Superintendent o. lnSuran"" itmmet by
Judge John +. McDonough. vino repre-
scented the State Federation Of Labor lie
accused Nh Emmett OF virtually aiding
the casualty companies ot the state IN
their fight To prevent the formation OF a
state insurance fund. He said the In
surance Superintendent did nothing TO
check the spreading % misleading circu-
lars regarding state insurance.
Il stick TO my business. Why don't You
stick TO yours" retorted Emmett 4
never indulge in personalities. "a you are
doing
Judge McDonoGgh read letter which
he mad written To Governor Sulzer at
tacking Superintendent Emmett lot Writ
ing 10 the Governor TO defeat the Mri-
taugh-Jacksor bill and 80 bolster mp n.s
department lii. the Folcy-Walk'r bill.
covering tin same subject and drafted OF
the retainer oi the superintendent by @
casualty insurance company lawyer ~
the interest and for the profit Of The in
surancc companies and other great cor
ioratious.
After pointing ont the great pOw'i slNct
10 .te Superintendent 81 Insurance under
the Foley bill Judge McDonough adds:
and this H. the man who complains
that the COMMISSION undo the MWaugh-
Jackson hll j, bipartisan MONOPOLY
Under mis- bill the superintendent -
Jingle headed autoclacy with triple
crown"
The Industrial accident commissioners
came from states where worhmcn's com
peryat:on acts have been enact d. AMI
are members Of boards that carry out their
rtcyisious Three came from Michigan.
New JERSEY and Massachusctts whose
CONDENSATION laws are practically the
same as the Foley bill OF the invitation
Of .>uperintcndcut EmmG. The fourth
r J. pufin. came ut the request az the
I'ederatl ton Of Labor from ohio vhcr" the
conversation Law Is the same az the Muir
taueh-Jackson bin All declared that their
respective compensation laws had met
with marvellous success.
Commissioner William Il. Dickson. -
New Jersey. said that the Nov Jei-ey
lax was almost universally accepted 10y
the manufacturers. the only companies
no, coming under its provisions being the
Standard Oil. The Singer Sewing Machine
Company and the Victor Talking Machin"
COMPANY The objection he found 10 the
ohio law and the MIrtauGh bill was That
only a small percentage Of manufacturers
elected To- go under its provisions. thus
giving the benefits of compensation Z"
comparaNvely few workmen.
TO call the Muriaugh bill workmen
conpcusation act Is q MISSIONER" he said
1T should be called an act to place the
In he nI al
IRRESPONSIBLE and incompetent oligarchy.
John T. Kinnane Of Michigan. said that
the Michigan law vas the most efficien'
that had>eNer been placed on the statute
books there r. J. DUNN. the Ohio com
missioner. in taking up the tudgeis lof
the Federation Of Labor bill. denied that
only a few Of the manufacturers had come
under the Ohio law.
Samuel Gompers. PRESIDENT OF the
American Federation Of Labor. urged the
committee 10 report the MurtauSh Dill.
He said il was favored by the steam ROAD
employcs OF the state, as well as the Feu-
Grafton Of Labor. ana the ohiN opposiuoh
to il by workingmen was from the bulld-
tro trades unions OF New York CITY HIS
,,rirciusl objection TO the Foley Dill, hc
| ,.id was that the compensation 1t pro-
vidcd for inquiries was not high enough
! Daniel Harris. president Of the New York
STATE Federation Of Labor also spoke
I for the Murtaush bill
Among the delegation from Ne" YORK
| ,,ere forty heads or representatives ~
Iuilding employers associations of Ne"
work and six building trades unions, all
,f ybom announced that they Endorsed
tho Folov-Walker bill as their name. were
.,,,d fnIIoving a speech OF otto Iditz.
! az Tho New York building employers.