The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-05-27

ness In doing so no property rights will be destroyed
Nothing will be confiscated, except that good will
which they claim 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 lust and ade
quate compensation cannot be paid injured working
under the law and present system with
out unduly penalizing the industries of the state
Union labor presents to the people of Minnesota a
plan of state Insurance. both as social and economic
proposition. By diverting the money which employers
OF labor for state insurance into state fund.- in
1ured Workngmen will receive higher compensation
than is paid to them without any additional cost to
the industries Of the state This good economies Bv
doing so the state will solve great social problem
1t Will provide law for permanently caring for all
workingmen who become totally incapacitated and will
provide widows and orphans during the entire period
OF their dependency This is not and cannot be
done under the present law, which at the best COM
pensates for only from 900 to 400 at the most
After that the state through it's charitable institutions
or private charity must provide caring for the VIC
Tins Of Industrial accidents.
There is for employers liability companies
to exist under any system of workngmens' compensa
ton The claim agent for the private companies cheats
the very purpose Of the compensation act He is inter-
ested only in saving dollars for his company and
nothing about the future welfare of the injured
Worklngman or his dependents.
No man who has studied the question of working
compensation from the standpoint the injured
man opposed to state Insurance. Indeed the great
number Of disinteresed 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 insurance.
insurance agents through their federation at the
very outset, are attempting to kill the program
labor unions for state insurance by cry of paterna
ISM and socialism, but should worry. The best
to head off socialism is to beat the socialists to it.
people and interests who cry the loudest against
are the classes which get most out
OF 1T. Workngmen of Minnesota must choose between
the of the state and paternasm of the
insurance companies. So far as we are concerned we
spff44er to be our own master. @ 49, ~
r. The primary election at which candidates for the
legislature will be nominated will held Monday June
IT, Every workingman in Minnesota urged to inter-
view all candidates and them to give this question
OF state insurance their most serious thought It is not
necessary to try to influence any running for office
Just let him study the question for himself and he is
fair and honest he will decide in his own mind that
state insurance offers the only system for providing just
and adequate compensation to every man and woman
who may be injured in the state
The insurance agents merely interested in saving
their jobs Compared with the large number of work.
ngmen who become injured every year there only
lew OF such jobs to lose Their energies activities
can we'll be directed in other channel They should
not be permitted to continue to make money on the
crushed bones and mangled bodies of injured working