The Arizona copper camp., 1916-11-03

perusal of the ballot which will be presented to the
voters at the election next Tuesday the
of Ray and Pna county to give great and
sderatOn to the proposed amendments to the
stitution and statutes submitted by initiative petition and
proposed by the legislature Each to be of
especial consequence but standing out prominently be-
ing of the greatest to Ray is the which
appears the ballot No 40 and No. I'LL It's title says
that the amendment will provide for protection and safety
OF workmen in all places of employment and for the nspec
ton and regulation of places of employment in all IN
herently hazardous works and occupations.
Mines and mills are hazardous works and mining and
milling hazardous occupations. Ray and the Ray dis
tric is filled with mines and mills The employees of such
make up nearly the total of our population.
The proposed compensation law is better one than
is at present statute books lis patterned after the
compensation law in effect in the state of Montana which
law considered of the best of it's kind in the West
The Arizona law contains all of the good features of the
montana law and material change in particular of
great benefit to the worken, the provision to
pensaton In the proposed Arizona law the payments
qured to be made ten per cent increase the
pensaton provisions in the Montana law.
The Los Angeles Examiner, in recent issues, edit
orally discussed the proposed Arizona act follows:
The proposed amendment is much wider IN it's scope
than either the Employers Liability Law or the Work
mems Compensation Law of Arizona now in force The
present laws apply to SOME hazardous eployments the
proposed law applies to ALL hazardous empoyments It
is interesting compare the long list of hazardous
patons mentioned in the proposed amendment with the
comparatively short list found in each of the present laws
The Employers Liability Law and the Worknen s
to much confusion and uncertainty Both laws now
under attack in the courts to their constutonaty In
large proportion OF the brought into court under
OF these laws, the contention made that the plaintiff
should have proceeded under the other law The
themselves have reached opposite conclusions this
question 1t is clear that the proposed amendment WILL
If adopted, remedy this unsatisfactory condition.
"A splendid feature of the amendment is the provi-
sion that compensation payments shall not be assigned
and that all such payments shall be exempt from attach
ment garnishment and execution This is another i'm
over the present laws One of the objects of
compensation law is to enable the injured workman to
maintain himself and his family without the need of
charity and without becoming charge the community
That object will often times be defeated long credit
permitted to seize compensation payments as fast
as they accrue.
1T is pointed out that every workman protected by
the present laws will also be protected under the amend
ment In addition thereto, thousands of workmen who
have no protection whatever under existing laws will have
the full benefit OF the proposed amendment.
ut is confidently expected that the citizens of Ar
zOna will reatirm their acceptance of the principle of
compensation and insurance for injured workmen by
adopting the proposed law
To our mind the law will be voted upon favoraby bv
the workmen of Arizona We have to this conclusion
by reason OF the fact that practically the only opposition to
the from lawyers who have heretofore
profted largely from personal injury litigation An inter-
estng table recently prepared shows that of IS per-
sOna injury suits tried in Maricopa county of the amount
recovered for the jured workman tre less than fty
per cent went to pay attorneys fees The proposed new
law makes such practice impossible and gives directly to
the workman the complete amount of insurance he
titled to- or to his family those dependent upon him in
the event OF his death The proposed law might named
an antishyster lawyer law instead of the name it bears
on the ballot An act to provide for the protection of
workmen."
will place after the word YES and opposite No. 11O
on the ballot