The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1955-02-04


contests in the Montana State Legis
lature, R. d. Corette, ACM- Montana
i Power Counsel and chief of their
lobby, at occupational disease hear
ings in the House Chambers Tuesday
evening.
Company opposition to occupation
al disease legislation is less impress
sive with every passing year, it seems
to me.
| Perhaps they feel they do not have
to try very hard, because they have
the votes in the legislature, anyway.
Perhaps my feelings come from
not being able to listen without hav-
ing it sound like they are talking
with their money in their mouth. /
had the ludicrous feeling that if any
one of them should cough they would
not pull out handkerchief they'd
pull out money bag.
Am | wrong to feel that it is not
morally right for profits to be so
dear that no consideration is given
to the man to whom life itself might
be limited?
Mr.. Chaffin's heart goes out to
the man who is dying from an occu-
pational disease, but he is Every con-
scious of the cost of insuring against
it."
The bookkeeper who testified
against the laboring man in the guise
of speaking the laboring mans view
point cited an example of a man "a
years of age who had an occupational
disease that killed him at the ripe
old age of As. Our laboring friend |
bookkeeper complained about what |
a terrific cost it would be to see that
man and his family were insured.
Immoral? Indecent? These are cal
Ious men by their own words.
1t is a fact:
1. There are occupational diseases
that come from working in any num-
Der of industries.
2. They are preventable.
8. The cost of such insurance is
BASED on the number of cases In any
industry.
4. Statistics prove that businesses
ire not ruined by having to carry
disease insurance.
What then is there but the inn
morality of their stand left to these
people?
Jesus said the wealthy man will
indeed have trouble finding the King
ON of Heaven land it was certainly
bvious Tuesday evening that they
o little to make it any easier for
Senator H. H. Anderson (D-Lin- I
oln) has introduced two bills in the !
enate to repeal laws enacted at the S
953 session that imposed the Lem
wv and the Relative Responsibility
ct. I
Senator Anderson says the Lem !
w is unjust because it makes those
asst able to pay support those who h
ave acquired nothing. 1t makes the a
customer suffering from adversely O
1T who has been prudent enough to f
We their home carry an unfair re- a
compared to those who v
we acquired nothing and are re- 81
tired to contribute nothing and still W
ceive the same pension. ST
Of the, Relative Responsibility act al
e Lincoln County Doctor says, 1T e1
amusing to note how these people P
10 are afraid that there will be
me law that will take away their OF
hts as citizens will stand by w
Y that will, in case of a depres-. hs
n, find them eaten up by their TIL
n writings" al
At the hearings on repeal of the CO
in law and the Relative Response sh
ity law Wednesday there were 80 Pr
people and their friends who -
ne in from Great Falls. About SO ee
,ple in all attended the hearings.
x 80
Rep. Dean Chaffin (R-Gallatln, tn
d the speakers against the en- of
ped school foundation program at a ]
public hearings Wednesday night M.
The House Chambers. Some people In:
ught Mr.. Chaffin was little har-
sed. a
Iany commented about how, the on
hit before, he had presented tele- Gle
ms received against an occupa
lal disease compensation law as car