The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-09
CIVIC FEDERATION
SEEKS REFORMS
Will Redraft Model WOrkmen'S
Compensation Measure.
TO GET STATES REPORTS.

Special Commission and 25,ooo En-
pIoyers to Give Views on Plan For
Industrial Accidents-Other National
Problems to Be Acted Upon.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
National Civic federation will be held
in New York city on Thursday and
Friday, Dec. II and -. The program
this year will include reports from the
various departments of the federation,
which reports will call for discussion
and action on many important PROPOSE
tions of national interest that will be
presented.
These departments are: The depart
ment on compensation for industrial
accidents and their prevention, the food
and drug department, the welfare de-
partment, the woman's department, the
department on industrial mediation
laws, the department on regulation if
municipal utilities, the department on
regulation of industrial corporations and
the department on industrial economics.
Report on compensation ActS'
The department on compensation for
industrial accidents and their proven
tion has commission of six men, who
have been making a study Of the ac-
tual results of the working of the vari
GUS forms of compensation acts. This
commission consists of Cyrus w. Phil
lips, ]. Walter Lord, Louis B. Schram,
Otto NJ. Eidlitz James Duncan and
John Mitchell, the two last named hav-
Ing been selected by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to represent it in this
inquiry.
The commission has confined its
work to the states where the compen-
sation law has been in effect for at
least year. These states include Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan,
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin,, California,
Oregon and Washington. The report
of this commission will contain the re-
suits of QUESTIONABLE sent to 25,0O0
employers in these states who have
either gone under the acts (Which are
elective) or have refused to do So
The views of the workingmen them
selves, either through their unions or
as individuals, will also be included.
In the light of the information secured
by this commission the model work
mems compensation bill of the Nation
al Civic federation will be redrafted.
Laws Governing Food and Drugs.
One session at the annual meeting
will be devoted to the consideration of
the food and drug problem. The fed
GRAFTON has an expert committee which
will be prepared to propose an outline
for work that it is hoped will prove of
great assistance to the department of
agriculture and the forty-eight state
and, dairy commissions which are
charged with the administration of the
federal and state laws relating to those
subjects.
How adequate are the federal and
state laws today? What changes, if
any, are proposed? Is the administra-
ton of the law effective in protecting
the people in these matters? These
questions all will be considered
The department on industrial media
ton laws which was so successful in
securing the passage of the Newlands
act, providing the arbitration of dis
putes between interstate railroads and
their employees, will report on mod
el state mediation bill. The depart
ment. on regulation Of municipal utili-
ties will report on its proposed model
bill for the regulation by the state of
street railways, gas, electric light and
other municipal utilities.