Bisbee daily review., 1916-10-05
Thursday Morning, October 5, 1916.
woRKMEN's COMPENSATION.

WoRKMENS CONVERSATION.
 If one measure more than another among the proposed constitutional amendments be voted upon at the forth canning election holds first place in importance it is the workmens Compensation act. Here is measure which vitay effects the of employee and every employer in Arizona. The former must look to some such enactment as bond covenantng the payment or insurance for injury sustained during the days work The latter conceded that in the role of em ployer he assumes not only moral but actual obga on toward his employees and in return is entitled to an act SO drafted that its application will either unjust conhscatory.
 In the form in which it was drawn by those seeking jointly the mutual employee and employer the workmens Compensation act represents what has been described as best of its kind either exsns in or proposed by any state in the Union The Montana law held the place prior to the drafting or the Arizona measure The patterned after the Mon tana measure every desirable essential yet excels by granting 10 per cent greater remuneration.
 Owing to the fact, it assumed that opposl tion would develop from Arizona employers who would protest against unprecedented high rates of compen sation No protests have been made however and the belief apparently justified that the employers had decided to take their medicine"
 This the situation up to the tune or the puucd tion of the Democratic State platform Amusement was general throughout the State when voters read this vol luminous document discovered that one had n- serted the following plank:
 We denounce contrary the spirit of public policy as abrogating the employers liability elactments as de- sructive of the affecting labor and detrimental best interests of those it is de- signed most to benefit the proposed socaed workmens compulsory compensation amendment to the ballot for submission to the voters propositions Nos. 11O and H."
 Investigation to uncover the of this assault upon measure all possible equity led straight way to cotere of lawyers in Arizona who feared that their incomes would be curtaed they deprived of revenues drawn from injured workmen whose cases were taken court Under the proposed act compen- sations would be awarded and paid automatically ana therefore without expense to the claimant In the of such act from the statute books there would be continuance of the shyster practice of am buance chasers, and rapacious lawyers would perpetu ally enjoy spells taken fees from injured workmen
 Whether the workmen of Arizona propose to be hood wnked matter which they themselves must decide by their votes. Whether men posing as party leaders submitted the opportunities of this lawyers organiza betrayed their constituents is matter for fur ther inquiry The workmen of Arizona will conduct the inquiry Politics and the pay which workman should receive for injuries have nothing
 In pamphlet issued by Secretary of State Osborn and containing discussions of the to be sub mitted to the of Arizona, w Mahoney has this to say about the workmen's Compensation Act:
 "The law has, course. been written as to be ap plicable Arizona There material change from the Montana law in the proposed Arizona amendment that the payments of compensation provided in this about per cent of increase over the Mon tana This done to give Arizona workmen the advantage of compensation law which has been tried by any mining state in the west.
 disputes under the Act must be instituted before the Board provided the settle such disputes and elsewhere.
 "The Montana law relating to workmen's compensa- ton is according to Arizona workmen who formerly worked in Montans good law and one of hesbes in It is giving satisfaction to both employer and employee and although the law drawn in Montana by the Law and Legislative Committee of the wormen, the employers accepted the law without contest. Al though the Montana schedules have been materially in