The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29

traron is placed In the hands .f an
industrial commission Of three MEM
bers who shall adjust disputes and
with authority 10 make awards II en-
ployers or insurance companies neg
fect to make rayment promptly.
Court proceedings are thereby practi-
caiiy eliminated.
The Maine law. however. awards
her injured workmen ~ The
employer Of not more than $40 n
week IN ease Of total DISABILITY with
a maximum Of $4,000 Heirs in ease
OF Death receive the same and the
scale of payments for those partly
disabled ranges from 81 Ia $40 a
week.
pennsylyania provided for the pay
ment OF nifty per cent Of wages. hut
not more than $40 or less thar SIS,
with a maximum total of s4.eea. The
act is elective and takes away from
the employers the ommon Law de-
lenses, but the people viii vote in
November on a constitutional amend
ment permitting the Legislature TO
make it compulsory. The act creates
a State insurance fund. but employ
ers are permitted TO protect them
selves in any other form of insurance
or carry their own risks on approval
OF the Bureau OF orkm
satlon which will administer the law.
Domestics and agricultural laborers
are exempted.
The Indiana law provides no state
insurance, but permits the employer
to seek it where ne chooses. or not
at all. if he give proof of his financial
= ability to pay the compensation. This
is fixed at So per cent. of the average
= wage not to exceed 500 weeks and in
:, case Of death. burial expenses To the
6 defendants not to exceed $100 and IS
per cent. of the weekly wage for 500
] weeks. Domestic servants and agri-
cultural labOrers are exempt and
those engaged in interstate commerce.
: The law is elective with both employer
and emplOye and is administered by
a State industrial commission.
# Fifty per cent. weekly wage not to
exceed 500 weeks is the basis Of the
q Oklahoma law.
Iowa and Alabama are the States
n which prohibited child labor. Maine
adopted a law under which women
~ and boys under sixteen employed in
mills, factories and laundries are not
permitted to work more han 81 hours
a, week. Pennsylvania enacted a
va statute limiting the hours of labor Of
children between Ia and 16 years 10
81 hours a week. A feature Of the
ed law is that all such children employed
ne must go to vocational school at least
ne eight hours a week which must be
ly computed in the 81 hours. thus max
ty ing the actual working hours 43. II
further provides that no messenger
X under 21 years can be employed by 2
IL telegraph, telephone or messengel
OF company after 8 O'Clock at night, ant
in that no child under IL can sell news.
re papers A statute along similar lines
a. fixing at 10 years the minimum age
OF of newsboys and other minors engaged
nj in street trades. was adopted by Cali
fornia. In North Carolina, bills de
IS signed TO enable officials better to en-
NA force the present chl1d-1 hGT la W
failed to pass.
Massachusetts enacted a bill pro
in hibiting the employment of woneI
,ur and children overtime for the purpOs,
"a of making up for time lost on a lega
ICE holiday and another requiring indus
les trial establishments to furnish fres1
and pure drinking water for employe
as and accommodations for those VIII
Use are injured or become i'll. A first al
cir measure. somewhat similar TO the lat
be ter. passed in the Washington legisla
ture, was vetoed by Governor listel
OF Labor unions protested, ii was draw
the in the interest Of employers alone.
Alaska adopted an eight-honr-1a'
IN for place miners and pensioned he
r,-a aged and INDECENT prospectOrs- A bi
ate requiring employers OF all kinds I
grant their employees one days rest i
seven was killed in the Senate Of Wis
consin, but one making such provisio
for railway employees Was PASSED q
the assembly and was at this writin
err awaiting action in the Senate
Other legislation affecting ,abs
au- was the abolition of the contract pc
ain son labor systep nv Ioxa- The enac
ins ment in California OF a bill for TT
employment OF convicts for the bniis
pc, ing of roads in mountain districts:
o similar bill in Idaho and a Law in tn:
be -. - ..
in hh,n
Of free labor bureaus in New JNrse
and a law in Utah requiring all me
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of D p H., except tHc