The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-02
COMPENSATION
LAW IS IN FORCE
Affects Both EMPLOYERS
and Employees.
4 DIGEST Of THE new LAW
Giving Reasons As To Why 1t
Should Be Accepted By
Both Parties.
II FOR FRIENDLY RELATIONS

There is a great deal of interes
being manifested over the work
mems compensation law, which he
came effective in the State of Ken
tucky on August !. An interestin.
pamphlet has been issued by Philil
S. Turley, president of the Kentuck!
Manufacturers and Shippers asso
citation, giving the reasons why tn,
law should be accepted by the EN-
ployer and employe. The digest o.
the law follows:
In adopting its workmen's com
pcnsation law, Kentucky has had
the benefit of ten years
experience with similar laws In
other States of the United States
more than thirty OF which have en-
acted such laws. They have given
great satisfaction both to employer
ard employe. The Legislature was
urged to pass the workmen's COM
pensation law of Kentucky, both by
employers and employees. The en-
ployers were represented by the
Kentucky Manufacturers and Ship
pers association and by the Mine
Owners association. The employees
were represented by the Kentucky
State Federation of Labor. The law
prepared by these organizations for
submission to the Legislature was
passed at the last session, with only
minor amendments.
The workmen's compensation law
provides a form of accident insur-
ance for the employe without cost
Ia him. 1t covers all employees, in
Guiding Overseers and foremen, in
every case where there are five or
more employed in the same occupa-
ton or business.
The common law of relations be-
tween employers and employees has
established defenscs which the
employer may use when sued
for damages for personal in
juries These defensos are known
as contributory negligence, fellow
servants fault and accepted risk.
Any employer who does not accept
the terms of the workmen's compen-
satiOn law is deprived of these de-
lenses If he is sued for damages by
an employe. He retains these de-
lenses and may plead them in a suit
for damages. when an employe has
not agreed with his employer, who
has already accepted the act, that
he also accepts it.
The employer is required by the
workmen's compensation law, when
he has accepted the act, to post no.
tees in conspicuous places about
his plant, so that the employees may
know that their employer has accept
Cd the act. The employe who de-
sires to accept the act, then signs
an agreement with the employer.
The workmen's compensation law
then requires of the employer that
he pay to the employe certain sums,
which the law itself fixes, for per-
sonal injury by accident, arising
out of and in the course of employ
ment, unless such injuries are self
inflicted or caused by wilful mis-
conduct or intoXication.
The word compensation, when
used in the workmen's compensa-
ton law. means simply the payment
OF whatever amount the law requires
an employer who has accepted the
act. to pay TO an employe who has
been wholly or partially disabled or
killed, who has also accepted the act
or TO the dependents of such an EN-
ploye.
The advantages under the work
mems compensation law are enjoyed
both by the employer and employe.
The law makes il unnecessary for
the employe to rely on the services