The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-10-16

NoRKMEN-COsT TO EMPLOY
EMPLOYERS.
/ 100000 men in our extra-hazardous
| trades
The boss who sees his accidents
in his balance sheet, surely automat-
ically, will get his scientific manage
ment ideas to working and prevent
accidents.
The small employer is not going
to be put out of business by a SO or
$50 doctor bill the big business
manager can't shift it onto his men
as now and deceive his stockholders.
Public opinion will know just where
to put its thumb from reports re-
quired and published. And the
thoughtful, humane employer will find
that he is assessed fewer compulsory
insurance premiums by the state to
ray compensation for the maimings
caused by his slave-driver competitor
who regards men as merely something
to exploit
4. REMEDIES A CRUEL MUS
TICE. Men who work with their
hands are now carrying two-thirds
of the financial burden of work-acci-
dents in Washington and the en-
ployers only one-third. This is proven
incontroyertably by cold statistics.
See 1913 Report Industrial Insurance
Commission, p.101. And on top of this
is the physical suffering and the want
and worry passed on to the family
where there are dependents.
Fifteen thousand serious industrial
accidents occur in the state each year.
In 1903 cases where the data was COM
plete the results were:
Total amount of wages lost $107, ,296.67
Cost of medical treatment 36,206,S0
Total financial loss to work
, men ..,................. 143 3,503.47
States awards (cost to en-
= ployers) .......,......., 47,164.20
5. BRINGS WASHINGTON UP TO
STANDARD. The spirit of the age
insists that industry shall bear the
cost of its accidents. Twenty-Five
American states have passed work
mems compensation acts and the en-
plOyer is obliged to pay for medical
i. attendance for injured men as we'll
oC l1Fiv IL 1,sx i
down by law. Washington is almost
alone in compelling the workmen to
pay the treatment cost,
"With a few exceptions" reports a
: notable commission of the National
Civic Federation, the states requires
that the employer in addition to the
/ compensation. shall pay the medical
, bills of the injured workmeu with
certain restrictions. Outside of the
State of Washington, the commission
found no sentiment opposed to this
requirement, it being generally con-
ceded that the workmen is not only
entitled to medical treatment in ad-
dition to his compensation. but that
it is to the interest Of the employer
, and society to see that he received it,
thereby to minimize the extent Of the
disability"
What is right in California Oregon,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan. Ohio.
New Jersey, Massachusetts, is also
right in Washington
6. ABOLISHES THE VICIOUS
F HOSPITAL TICKET SYSTEM. Ger
tain organized employers, acting
through the anonymous "Stop-Look-
Listen League" are bitterly opposing
the standardizing of what humane
tirers of men do as plain, Christian
duty. These men say, 1--WE already
take care of our injured mem" But
they mean they have given some con-
tract-doctor the corporations fran
elise of treating its men and are de-
ducting the dollars every month from
the pay envelope of each of their
laborers as a hospital fee to pay
him, Notwithstanding the often poor
Quality of his slap-dash services. This
bill will compel the cOntract-doctors
to meet professional competition on
their merits-to the benefit of suffer-
ing workmen.
One hundred and sixty thousand
workmen are covered by the compen-
sation act About $3.50, or 10000 men,
are under the benevolent compulsion
of the Observation-Disclosures, pay-in-ad-
vance, installment system of putting
up the medical cost of treating ac-
cidents This means the workmen are
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