Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-29
MUST PAY CLAIMS DIRECT
Decision by Pennsylvania State Conn.,
pensation Board Affects Accident
Insurance Companies.

ally all insurance companies in that
state issuing accident insurance under
| the new wOrkmen's compensation law
have agreed to pay claims direct to in
jured workmen. By this method vic
tins of industrial accidents and their
families are freed from the danger Of
exploitation by lawyers who charge ex-
orbitant fees for collecting claims. Re-
Gently the board notified the insurance
companies that the claims Of attorneys
must not be deducted from compenSa-
ton awards unless these were APP
proved by the state board.
Stimulated perhaps by the United
States legislation relating to seamen
and shipping, the seamen of British
Columbia, through their branch of the
sailors union, have asked for an in
crease in wages, basing their petition
on the greater cost Of living. The
steamship companies interested de-
clared that they could not meet the
demands, but made certain cOnceS-
sions, conditional on their acceptance
by all the crews Of the fleet. The
men are expected to accept the scale
offered after some minor adjustments
have been made.
New Yorks municipal free employ
ment bureau found jobs in May for
2,373 men and women, an increase Of
AL over any previous month, and it's
superintendent confidently announces
that the bureau has arrived" More
than eight times as many places We're
filled as in May last year. This, Of
general for labor, but doubtless also a
strengthened habit of looking to the
public bureau for help. 1t is a good
habit for employers to acquire in Chi
cago and elsewhere as well as in New
York.
The federal department Of labor has
published statement by the Ameri-
can consul general at Vancouver, B. c.,
who warns Americans that there is
no warrant for the call, emanating
from Canadian sources, for 10000
farm laborers in that country. It Is
declared that there are more than a
thousand unemployed in Vancouver
| etAiA eIioC llully etOlC-UOulCu lIlSA III
this province are dependent upon pub.
lie charity for the reason that they
are unable to obtain employment" !;
Fred H. Merrick, convicted of incit.
ing to riot in connection with the at
tack of the Westinghouse strikers on
the Edgar Thomson mill of the Car
negie Steel company at Pittsburgh
early in May, was sentenced to serve
31a years in the workhouse Merrick
who had been making speeches to tho
strikers, was described by the grand
jury as one Of the leaders of the
. mob. y ..-e t+-
The international Typographical
union has reached the highest poin
, in membership since the first organi
cation, totaling up $1,000, an increase
of 1000 for the year, and during thi:
period the earnings of the members
amounted to SCI 100000, an increase O
$4,0O0,OOO over last year. The aver
- !. age earnings per member for the las
~ year have been S1,O4s.
a W0jcisch StOlarZ, labOrer, wa
II awarded Il verdict of $4,000 agains
d the Interstate Iron and Steel compan,
IS of East Chicago, Ind, by jury il
l. Judge Charles NJ. Walkers court Ac
l. cording to the testimony, the plaintiff
: lost the sight of one eye and prac
d tically the sight of the other when h
/ was burned by an explosion of moltel
iron.
The municipality of Schoenbere
" Germany, has substituted women 70
J. men white WINGS" paying them
d pfennigs an hour instead Of the men
d pay of 25 marks a week. The commo
4. council refused to raise the women
n pay, on the ground that after the wa
the men would demand higher pay
womens wages were raised.
The legislature of Ontario, Canad;
II will be asked to appoint a commissio
n to investigate into all matters pertain
Ill ing to labor and industry in that pro,
Il ince, at least half of the commissio
y, to be labor men, in order that ther
!" may be no delay in finding employmer
for the soldiers who will return afte
the war.
+ Workers among London Juvenile
( are greatly exercised over the bi
! wages earned by boys in munitio
+ works and elsewhere. Hitherto Lol
+ don working boy was satisfied if /
+ made a few shillings a week; no,
: we are told, he thinks nothing Of ear
( ing from 20 to % shillings.
: Steel orders approximating $2S,OO(
! 600 have been placed already by Jap
+ nese with Westinghouse, Cambria ar
+ allied concerns. Most of the steel wi
: be used in construction Of the Imperi
!. Iron works at Yawata, Japan.
+ Since the war began more than 16(
+ 600 men in England have left 9th
T occupations for that of the mines,
! cause underground workers are barr,
+ from military service.
! There is project on foot to start
{ "War Brides Club" in the west Ell
< of London for women who have ma
Z ried soldier men who are at the fro
+ and feel lonesome.
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