The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-10-23

would -, -o AoOo, ludL IL
"ouiu tend to make the private en-
pioylleht agent the servant of the am :
pioyer rather than of the employe and
.hese foes of the mea sure contend ~ .
"hlle some employment agents are dis
honest Others are honest, and the hon
est agents would suffer with the die,
honest agents.
Ahese opponents of the plan conten 4
'"at II also is weak in that it will not
put the employment agent out of bus;.
ness and will tend to prevent emplover
ana employe from getting together
lhese Toes of the scheme also contand
that the plan would mean tba estoh
ilshment of free state employment
agencies, would provide Jobs for mol
lllclans and would be an additional
burden on the taxpayers, and they al
iege that the free agencies in Illinois
last year cost that state $4,000 for
handling one-sixth of the emplovment
business of the state; that to make the
plan effective in Washington would
cost the taxpayers 100000 the year
Initiative No. 9-Adding a first-a;d
clause to the state Industrial insur
ance act. This act provides that every
person injured in extra hazardous en-
pioyment in the state shall be en-
titled to receive such medical, sur
gical and hospital treatment, includ-
ing nursing, medical and surgical sup
pies, crutches and apparatus as are
reasonably required to accomplish re-
covery, including transportation from
the place of injury to the hospital or
other place of treatemnt.'
Section 3-The cost of the service
provided for in section 2 of this act,
in sum not to exceed $1OO for any
one workman, shall be paid by the en-
ployer, and itemized receipts for all
actual disbursements shall be filed
with the industrial insurance depart
ment.
| Section 4-In all cases where the
costs of services provided for in this
act exceed $100 the excess shall be
audited and paid by the industrial in
surance department out of the acci-
| dent fund of the class to which the
| employer of such injured workman be-
longs.
/ oil fnr rhi ro-
ton, where differences arise as to the
| cost of treatment for the injured per-
son.
Opponents of the first aid measure
contend it will permit the injured en-
ploye to go where he pleases to be
treated, and to be treated by any sur
geon he may select, no difference
whether such surgeon is competent or
not; that it would tend to abolish hos
pitfalls for injured workingmen, and
that the present tendency is to secure
the best hospitals possible and the
best attendance possible, that recovery
Imay be speedy and expense kept down;
contend that the result of the pro-
posed law would be to create corps
of ambulance chasers;' and point out
that in 1911 and in 1913 efforts were
made by a committee of both employ
ers and employees to have bill passed
providing that the employer and the
employe each bear half the cost OF
first aid injury. Opponents of the
measure contend it is not necessary
and also contend it would tend to in
duce persons suffering from trivial
injuries to seek compensation under
| the act.
Initiative No. 10-Providing FOR the
employment of convict labor on pup
lie highways. By the terms OF TINS
measure convicts employed in state
road work are to be paid 5O cents the
day. the money to go to their famllies
or dependents and, at the expiration
of their terms of service they are 10
be given at least 80 days regular ell
n,ovment to be paid by the state. 10
carry on the project it Is proposed
that a fax levy of not to exceed IL
mill be levied, and that $2,O0o,ooo pe
appropriated out of the state roau
fund The provision would permit
4ho courts To sentence convicted per-
sons direct to road work. 1t contem-
nlates the establishment OF state roau
convict camps, with proper guaros'
The money set aside for maintenance
would purchase tools and materiais
for road building and pay for the
orards for camp construction and Tor
| Itimekeepers.
"Its friends contend it would reduce
,ho cost of road construction. oppo-
uorto of the measure contend 1t wouid
Mace a heavy burden on the taApa'
ers that it would nullify the worA Vi
tho state reformatory at MONROE
which is intended to aid first onehu-
ers by keeping them away from uhue
sirabla associates; that it wouid ai
fect the penitentiary by CLOSING 'he
| ,u.o mill built at a cost of $30o'ooo'
and would let Calcutta supply Tue
| inte bags to the farmers OF this state
Those opponents also contenu 'na'
| aonvict labor is notoriously lpen'-
cient. that the cost of road cons'ruc.
tion would not be lessened ana tii"'
| os,,ro would provide occupation
san large numbers of politicians
Initiative No. 1S-The universal
e,ght-hour measure. By this measure
aa omnlover in the state would be per-
a,,..od 70 work his employe, man OF
,roman more than eight hours a uay