The Glenwood post., 1915-09-25

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iAjsesa vssknaa ny ssasivs sns-haii
sf ks vsskly uaOsa, hst nsvsr nsgs
thaa ta-e0 . wssk. fss - ls.s . period
as he is disabled, the eospsnsatisn .x
tending in ssns cases t. twenty -eiSat
weeks, AID in eases sf total disability
lie. In eaas Of death tAs esApeasa-
ties uin rouge - high = es,5o0. Con-
Pessation begins e. the fourth week
after injury, sAA before that time the
injured workman receives hospital,
nsFse aad doctor bilh.
Any employer Of less than four en-
Ployes OF any employer Of domestic or
ranch hands may eject to come under
the law by filing . statement to this
effect with the commission.
PunctSas 1as Dsss Aoes0eaa
How has compensation wofkedy Bot
ter than the most ssaguine ever ex-
peeted. In the first place the principle
has been accepted and adopted by over
" per cent Of the employers of this
state, the very men who must pay the
bill. Let Us remember this, when We
come to discuss questions affecting he
employers snA employees. The employ
ers Of this state have, almost to q man,
stepped under this law, voluntarily
stating that they wish better protection
for the men and women who work tor
them; wish them safeguarded fro ac-
eident and from poverty and distress.
Practically every laboring man and ~o-
man in the state has accepted the Act.
1t will astonish you to know what the
Act has already meant to the working
classes of Colorado. There have been
up to Thursday last llO2 accidents.
They are reported to the commission at
the rate of fifty = day.
There have been eighteen deaths up
to Thursday. What = sad toll in hui
man life! Many of these deaths were
of men who have large families. Unde-
the old common law they could 1Ot
have recovered q cent from their em-
ployers in lawsuits; under compensa-
tion, widows and children will receive
Is high Is *2,5OO This means the literal
salvation of these families; their safety
from poverty and q chance for eduea-
tion and opportunity for the little
children in life.
Toek Great Risk
But yesterday, and the coal miner
who went down . thousand feet into
the earth to dig the substance that
warns you and me through the biting
winter, went not knowing if he would
ever return alive to earth, and that if
death came, his wife and little ones
would, in all human probability, be cast
upon society, without house or cent
in the bank or = crumb of bread; AMI
the man who digs our precious metals
went into the bowels of the earth know
ing that his family faced the same dis
NAL and desperate outlook. Now, all
is changed. By virtue Of this great hu-
manitarian Law, every man who steps
into = miners cage or lifts pick to
strike a blow down in the depths of
the earth, does SO with the certain
knowledge that his wife and little ones
are protected from hunger and want if
disaster Overtakes him; that NO longer
will they 60 through life in bitter hard
ship and hunger, but that this Law
stands over them to protect and safe
guard them to bring them food sn.i
shelter and clothing and give them q
chance In the world.
Pubic WIN - Hsand
Men have said to me-we hope the
commission will make good and give
us industrial peace in Colorado, and to
all such l reply, 50 does the commis-
sion hope and want to make good, and
10 far as human nature permits, We
shall make good. But making good
means whatever you take it to mean;
it is = relative term. We might maks
good with capital and fail to make
good with labor, and we might make
good with labor and disappOint capital,
or We might make good with neither
side and have them both attacking. us,
and yet be true to correct standards of
right and make good with the public,
the third party in the dispute.
And let us say that with you men of
the press rests in large measure the
success or failure Of what we nay Try
to do. You can do mach to help OF
hinder us. urge you to watch us
closely, comment on rs freely, but fa,r-
! " and deal mot with invective but with
facts and see that We are fairly repre-
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