The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-07-15

of the states charitable or corrective
institutions. Indeed. an unwarranted
distinction is made between them.
Every self Prospecting wage Garner has
sympathy for the unfortunate inmates
of every institution in Minnesota. It
Is but a step from workingmen's COM
pensation as it obtains in Minnesota,
to a charitable institution.
Care Nothing for Workinemen.
THE insurance agents do not care
anything about the injured working
man. They are interested only in
making secure the employers liability
companies. Union labor holds that
there Is a needless waste under work.
1ngmen's compensation when private
insurance companies carry the risk
for employers. Union labor has no
scruples about putting liability COM
panies out of Business In doing so
no property rights will be DESTROYED.
Nothing will be confiscated, except
that the good will which the COM
panies claim as an asset and which
was given to them by the law will be
taken away from them and held by
the state.
"Thoughtful workingmen recognize
that just and adequate compensation
canont be paid to injured workingmen
under the present law and the pres
ent system without unduly penalizing
the industries Of the state.
Union Labor Plan a Good One.
Union labor presents to the people
OF Minnesota a plan of state insur-
ance, both as social and economic
proposition. BY diverting the money
which: employers Of labor pay for
state insurance into state fund the
injured Workingmen will receive high
;er compensation than is now paid
to them without any additional cost to
the Industries OF the state. This is
good economics. BY adopting this
plan the state will solve a4great social
problem%<: It. will provide a law for
permanently. caring for all working
MEN who become totally incapacitated
and will provide for widows and or
jphans during the etire period of their
dependency This is not done and
icann13t. I'D dohfe Under :the>present law.
which at The, best compensates. for
only from 800 to 400 weeks at the
most. After that the state, through
;itat ::cHaf1tdble| institutions, Or private
:cAaritI. 4fhSt provide for caring for
the: xvfpiilnhn of industrial accidents.
:..There is no reason for employers
liability companies to exist under any
system Of workingmen's compensation.
The claim agent for the private COM
panies, cheats the very purpose Of the
comp ensatfon act. He is interested
only in saving dollars for his company
and cares nothing about the future
social welfare of the injured working
man or his dependents.
Students of Problem for This Plan.
mo man who has studied the ques-
ton Of workingmen's compensation
from the standpoint of the injured
man is opposed to state insurance. In
deed: the great number of disinter-
ested men in America who give their
best thought to this: problem have
openly declared that no just system of
compensation can obtain except
through the medium of state insur-
ance. a.
"The insurance agents thru their
federation, at the very outset, are at
tempting: to kill the program OF. the
labor unions for state insurance by a
cry OF "paternalism'. and Socialism -
But we should worry. The best way to
head off socialism is to beat the So
cialists to, it. The people and inter-
ests who cry the loudest against pa
ternalism are the same classes which
get the most out of it. Workingmen
of Minnesota must choose between the
paternalisIn of. the state and the pa
terna1ism Of the insurance companies.
So tar as they are concerned believe
they: will prefer to be their own mas