Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-29
Jersey LIABILITY
LAW TO Be GUIDE
National Civic Body Will Con-
fer at Trenton With
State Officials.
TFrom a Stan Correspondent.I


TRENTON, Sept. 29.-The Joint
commission created by the National
CiS'tc Federation to study the opera
ton of workmens compensation laws
in the various States will have a con-
ference here on Thursday with the
New Jersey Employers Liability
Commission and the commissioner of
labor.
The commission in it's inquiry as
to the operation of the New Jersey
law will pursue the same course it
has in Massachusetts, Ohio, Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Illinois. After
it's conference with the Trenton Off
Gals 1t win hold conferences with
employers and workmen in other
cities, and is now sending letters of
inquiry to New Jersey employers, Ia
Dor organizations. employers associa-
tions and other trade bodies.
The commission is engaged in a
nationwide effort to ascertain the
facts with regard to the operation of
the various workmen's compensation
acts. In it's efforts it has the CO.
operation of the American Federation
of Labor, which has named two men,
bers of the commission.
To Furnish Definite knowledge.
The purpose of the inquiry as stat
ed by Cyrus w. Phillips, chairman
of the commission, in arranging for
the New Jersey inquiry Is to fur
nish employers, employees and the
public generally a more definite and
exact knowledge of the benefits to
be derived from this great reform,
assist in it's further development
along just and sound economic lines,
and aid in securing uniformity of
legislation in the different States, and
it is believed that this investigation
will not only be a benefit to the
States which have not yet enacted
compensation legislation, but also to
those States in which laws have been
passed. inasmuch as it will bring out
the respective merits and dement's
of the various laws.
The commission is attempting to
ascertain among other things, the
degree of satisfaction that the COM
pensation act is giving; the reasons
that have prompted employers to
either accept or reject it; the cost of
compensation laws as compared with
the cost under the old liability law;
the adequacy of the medical treat
ment that injured employees are re-
ceiving; whether the cost of medical
treatment is excessive, and, IL SO,
what methods for reducing the cost
can be devised and at the same time
secure skilled and efficient treatment
for the injured; whether litigation has
been decreased, and, II so, the amount
saved by State and municipal gov
ernments as q result; whether in case
of injury compensation is paid
promptly and the injured properly
protected in determining his right to
and the amount of compensation.
Also studying Insurance.
The commission is also studying
the extent to which workmen are
protected either by insurance or some
other satisfactory method against the
insolvency Of the employer and the
operation Of the different forms of
insurance and their effect upon the
rights of the employer and the work.
men.
The members of the commission
IRE:
Chairman, Cyrus w. Phillips. MEM
Der of the former New York State
Commission on Employers Liapiiity'
and an attorney-at-law, Rochester,
N. Y: J. Walter Lord, chairman of
the Maryland State Commission on
EMPLOYERS Liability and Workmen's
CONDENSATION, recently appointed by
the governor of that State, chairman
of the Federation's Maryland State
Council, and an attorney-at-law, Bal
timore, Md; Otto M. Eidlitz, New
York Building Trades Employers As
ISOLATION, New York city; Louis b.
Schram, chairman labor committee,
United States Brewers Association,
Brooklyn, N. Y; James Duncan, vice.
president American Federation of La
Dor, Quincy, Mass; John Mitchell,
yice-president American Federation
of Labor, Mount Vernon, N. 7.
Mr.. Duncan and Mr.. Mitchell were
appointed by the American Fedora
zion of Labor to cooperate with the
National Civic Federation.