Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-11-17
APPOINTS MEN TO
DRAFT FIRST AID
Governor Lister Would Have
First Aid Law Submitted
to the Legislature
EMPLOYERS --- EMPLOYEES
Are Named as Committee to
Meet With Industrial In
surance Commission

OLYMPIA, Nov. 15.-J. P. McGold-
rick, Spokane, of the McGoldrick Lum-
Der company; Alex Poison, former
state senator from Hoquiam, of the
Poison Logging company; William Pi-
gott, Seattle, of the Seattle Car and
Foundry company, representing en-
ployers, and E. p Marsh, Everett,
president of the state federation of
labor; Martin j. Flyzik, Seattle presi-
dent of District No. 10, United Mine
Workers of America and J. w. Clark.
Aberdeen, editor of the Grays Harbor
Post, and member of the carpenters
union, have been asked by Governor
Lister to serve with Chairman F. L.
Daggett and Clarence Parker and A. B.
Ernst of the industrial insurance COM
mission in drafting first aid" law
to be submitted to the next legisla-
ture. McGOldrick and Parker were
members of the commission appointed
by former Gov. NJ E. Hay in 1910 to
draft the original compensation law
now on the statute books. In event
the members named accept, the COM
mission will begin holding sessions
early in December. The proposed ini-
tiative law on first aid was voted down
at the November election and the
body named now is to have a measure
on that subject ready for the next
legislature.
In his letter to the different men,
bers asking them to serve, Governor
Lister says:
To Make Broad Study.
During the campaign just closed
stated publicly that If initiative meas
ure No. 8, the first aid measure, failed
to carry would appoint a commission
to formulate bill covering the first
aid or medical attendance proposition.
The returns indicate that this meas
ure has failed to pass. I am, there
fore, now engaged in figuring out a
proper committee to consider and rec
ommend first aid measure to the
legislature.
my personal view is that such a
commission should consists of three
employers, three employees and the
three members of the industrial in
surance commission. My reason for
placing the three members of the in
dustrial insurance commission on the
commission to prepare this measure
is on account of the large amount of
data which has been gathered by the
members of the industrial insurance
commission and also on account of the
information they have person.
ally as a result of such investiga.
tiOn. BY some it has been suggested
that possibly the medical profession
ought to be represented on the com.
mission preparing the bill After
careful thought it appears to me that
the better plan would be for the state
medical association to recommend or
appoint committee of three or five
of it's members to present their views
to the commission preparing the bill
rather than that they should be mem.
bers of the commission. In addition
to this, l am inclined to think after
the commission is organized and begun
its work 1t would be advisable to call
in a few Of the employers, employees
and others who have given close study
to this matter so that the commission
would have the benefit of their knowl
edge. However, this latter proposition
would be one to be decided upon by
the commission after it's organization