The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-02-19
CIVIC Federation
SEEKS REFORMS
Will R06Iaft Model WOrNmaA'S
Compensation Measure.
TO GET STATES REPORTS.

Special Commission and $4,000 En-
ployers to Give Views on Plan For
Industrial Acodents-Other National
Problems TO Be Acted Upon.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the
National Civic federation will be he'd
in New York city on Thursday and
Friday. Dec. IL 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
tons 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 II
municipal utilities, the department on
regulation OF industrial corporations and
the department on industrial economies
Report on Compensation Acts.
The department on compensation for
industrial accidents and their proven
ton has commission of six men, who
have been making 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, j. Walter Lord Louis Il. 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 Mt
least year. These states include Mas.
snchusetts, New Jersey, Michigan,
Ohio. Illinois, Wisconsin. California.
Oregon and Washington. The report
of this commission will contain the re-
suits OF QUESTIONABLE sent to 25,00C
employers I'm 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
l..
In the light of the information secured
by this commission the model work.
men's compensation bill of the Nation.
al Civic federation VIII be redraftcd.
Laws Governing Food and Drugs.
One session nj the annual meeting
will be devoted to the consideration of
the food and drug problem. The fed.
Grafton has an expert committee which
VIII 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, II
any, are proposed7 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
/ Rules between interstate railroads and
their employees, will report on mod
! ci 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