Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-06-11
COMPENSATION ACT
PROTECTS WORKMEN
Rights And Obligations OF
Employer and Employe
Under Compensation
Statute.

If sou are either an employe or an
employer in any line of work other
than farming, it is probable that you
are subject to the workmen's S, compen-
sation act. 1t is, consequently, of
great Importance that you should
fully understand your rights and
duties under this law.
Employers in all lines other than
farming are subject to the compensa-
tion act if they have employed three
or more persons in connection with
their business on any day since Sep
TENDER l, 1917. 1t makes no difference
if you now have only one or two en-
ployes, you are nevertheless under the
compensation law if on some one day
since September l, 1917, you employed
as many as three persons. Farmers
are not under the compensation law,
as far as strictly farming operations
are concerned, unless they have
written the Industrial Commission
that they wish to come under this
law. Farmers who own threshing rigs
and silo filling outfits and who do
work for their neighbors or who do
logging under contract, however, are
subject to the compensation act ii
they have employed three men in
such operations on any one day since
September /, 1917.
All employers who are under the
compensation law, including thresh-
ermen, must insure their risk under
a penalty of S25 per day while not in
sured, unless they have been exempt
ed from doing so by an order in
writing of the Industrial Commission.
Only large employers can afford to
carry their own risk You would not
think of carrying your own fire risk
and the cost of accidents annually is
greater than the entire fire loss. Don't
figure that because you have never
had an accident, you will never have
one. Serious accidents are apt to
occur in any line, and if one of your
employees should be permanently to-
tally disabled it might cost you in
excess of $4,000.
There is no state system Of cOmpen-
sation insurance. Employers may in
sure with any company licensed to
write compensation insurance in this
state. Most agents who write fire and
casualty insurance also write compen-
sation insurance. If you have en-
ployed three or more persons on any
one day since September l, 1917, and
are not now carrying compensation
insurance, you cannot afford to me-
glect to take out insurance at once.
An employe is under the compensa-
tion act if his employer is under the
law. Should you be injured while
working, you are entitled to the bene-
fits which the compensation act pro-
yides, but you have no other action
against your employer. The amount
you can recover depends. only To a
minor degree upon who was at fault
and recovery is not defeated by neglj-
gence. Occupational diseases are COM
pensable as well as industrial acct
dents.
If you are injured while working,
tell your boss or foreman at once how
and where you were hurt. Even a
silver or scratch should be reported,
because blood poison often results
from such minor injuries. 1t is both
the duty and the right of the en-
ployer to furnish doctor and neces,
sary medicines and hospital treat
ment, and if the injured does not
accept the services offered, he must
pay his own doctor and hospital bill.
In addition to necessary medical
treatment, an injured employe under
the compensation act is entitled to
compensation from his employer if
disabled beyond I days. The rate OF