Weekly journal-miner., 1918-06-19
VOTERS PASS ON COMPENSATION
 REGULATIONS
(From Saturdays Da;ly.)

Arizona this year will be that of the proposed amendment to the consti- tuition of the State of Arizona to provide compensation for workmen injured in hazardous employments, and for their beneficiaries and dc pendents where death results from such injury.
 The plan calls for State insurance, administered by an industrial acci- dent board appointed by the gov . ernor, by and with the advice and con sent of the senate; providing that the employer shall pay a certain rate of premium on his payroll into the State industrial accident fund, and that the injured employee shall be paid directly from this fund.
 | It IS optional with the employer to come under the law or stay out. If the employer elects to come under the law 1t Is not binding upon an employee who shall elect not to be bound by the law and serves notice to that effect upon his employer and the board. Any employee who has rejected the law, if his employer is operating under 1t, may, at any time, waive or reconsider such rejection upon notification to his employer and the board. When injury is due to the accident arising out of or in the course of employment away from the plant of the employer, through the negligence or wrong of another, not in the same employ, recourse to common law by the employee may be elected, instead of compensation.
 Any employer and his employees, engaged in manifestations work or employment, by their joint election, filed with and approved by the board, may accept the compensation pro- visions of the law and the rate of assessment of the employer shall be fixed at one-half of one per cent of his total payroll.
 Employers who do not elect to come under the law shall not, in any suit brought by an employee to re- cover damages for personal injury or death by accident, be permitted to de- lend any suit at law upon the grounds that the employee was negli- gent, or that the injury was caused 1 by the negligence of fellow en- Dloyee, or that the employee had as sumcd the risk attending the occupa- ton which resulted in the injury.
 All persons (except household and domestic servants, and agricultural laborers, or casual employes) work | ing for wages in occupations spcci- | hed as hazardous, of which over 300 are named in the text of the law are entitled to compensation.
 Where the injury causes death sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of the daily wage at the time of the injury for a period of nineteen hum dred days to the beneficiary, if any, m no case to be less than S3,00000) three thousand dollars or more than (SS,OOOOO) eight thousand dollars In addition to other compensation there shall be pad burial expenses of the employee not exceeding one hun drcd and twenty-five dollars. If there be no beneficiary there shall be paid to his major dependents fifty per cen tum of the daily wages at the time of the injury for a period of nine teen hundred days not exceeding SS,- COO eight thousand dollars or less than (S3,OOO) three thousand dollars. II there be no major dependents then upon the same basis forty per centum shall be paid 10 his minor dependents.
 For an injury producing total dis ability, compensation shall be paid out of the industrial accident fund to the injured employee, semi-monthly, at the rate of slXty-siX and two-thirds per ccntum of the daily wages at the time of the injury during life, if this shall be the period of such disability. !
 The scmi-monthly payments pro- vIded for may be converted in whole, or Tn part, into a lump-sum payment, not exceeding the estimated value of the present worth of the deferred payments capitalized at the rate of tvc per centum per annum. Such conversion may only be made upon ! the written application of the injured . workman, his beneficiary, or major | or minor dependents, as the case may be, but the advisability of such con version shall rest in the discretion of the board.
 Ten per ccntum of the premium collected from employees shall be . set aside by the industrial accident DOdl iOI lHC CTCdllOn or surplus . until such sum shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars. and there after five per centum Of such pre- miums shall be set aside until such surplus shall, in the judgment of the board, be sufficient to cover the ca tastrophe hazard.
 This law has been compiled after thorough investigation of every compensation law now in action in the mining states of this country and in Canada and Is said to be the best thing of its kind yet submitted for action to the voters of Arizona. IL Is particularly patterned after the compensation law of Montana but it combines the best that is to be had from all of the mining states. Pe- tltIons are now being circulated in Prescott to obtain the necessary num- Der of signatures so that this bill may be submitted to the voters for their consideration.