JUSTICE FOR THOSE ON INDUSTRY'S SICK LIST
Justice For Those on Industry's Sick List IN AN article on the bill now before Congress to provide compensation for occupational diseases, John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for...
...With it, there is no limit to its capacity for human good...
...It is safe to assume that no bank is maintaining privately paid clerics in service at the Treasury department unless there is some advantage to be gained through that service...
...Justice For Those on Industry's Sick List IN AN article on the bill now before Congress to provide compensation for occupational diseases, John B. Andrews, secretary of the American Association for Labor Legislation, says in The Survey: "The arguments used so effectively by advocates of compensation for accidents, and now so generally accepted by all men, apply with even greater force in the consideration of relief for the victims of occupational diseases...
...Here are the reasons President Wilson gave why sugar should be on the free list...
...OLD Gen...
...On page five, in the article on "The New Training for Rising Journalists," is described the manner in which universities are meeting this need for especially prepared writers...
...Because the wool growing industry is rapidly declining...
...Because it is now arbitrary and unreasonably protected to the extent of CO per cent...
...If not, why not...
...Ailes is reported to have expressed indignation that any one should complain of this inside arrangement, and to have declared that only such information was obtained as in due course the department makes public...
...MEN CANNOT CONCEIVE of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.— THOREAU...
...Because, nurtured with high tariffs as an infant industry, it is or should be able to face any foreign competition...
...Porfirio Diaz may decide to postpone his return until it transpires whether hia nephew Felix or General Huerta "tried to escape and was unfortunately shot...
...Because it goes into the stomach of every man, woman and child...
...Many transactions of the treasury are necessarily secret and the confidential character of much information which it obtains is fixed and protected by statute...
...Some diseases are, in the ordinary use of the term, accidental...
...Unnecessary occupational diseases would then be prevented, and that is the real problem...
...Because the wool industry in a few years will be practically extinct or of little relative importance due to the breaking up of western grazing ranges and the general decline in the industry...
...But many people work where trade diseases of an insidious nature are contracted and where there is constant risk of illness on that account...
...More and more the public is turning its attention to matters of government...
...For this reason, it is growing more and more essential that those who make the press should be well equipped for their responsibility...
...A considerable part of the money now paid to employers' liability companies and to ambulance chasers could, under a just system of compensation, go where it belongs—to the injured workman or his family...
...It will pay to clean up...
...No bank, whatever its connections, should be permitted in advance of the general public to secure information concerning the operations of the Treasury department...
...There is no social justification for drawing an arbitrary line of distinction—the principle of compensation is no longer in an experimental stage...
...An intimation that these banks were favored in some way reached Secretary McAdoo a few weeks ago...
...City bank on the condition of each national bank in the country following every call of the Comptroller of the Currency...
...But his point is that along with natural ability should go the specialized ability to handle adequately the happenings and movements that have a bearing upon government...
...an editor of experience remarked, "Even if every trace of commercialism and every taint of 'influence' were to be removed from the papers and magazines of this country, there would still remain the problem of individual ability to report accurately the great and complex public questions of today and to comment upon them intelligently...
...City Times...
...These diseases are as serious as accidents...
...Without that the press will never perform its highest function in a self-governing nation...
...Expensive, annoying, and unsatisfactory litigation could be reduced to a minimum...
...Because primarily, it is a necessity of life— not a luxury...
...The procuring of this information in advance, by the representative of any private interest, should be punished as a crime...
...He is undoubtedly right...
...Kansas...
...Information concerning special danger points in industry would be automatically pointed out to the factory inspectors in a manner both prompt and sure...
...More and more they are demanding information about its derails...
...It is only consistent that incapacity caused by diseases due to the employment should also be included...
...A compensation law should include, says Sir Thomas Oliver, the leading English authority on the subject, 'industrial diseases, the consequences of which may be immediate or remote, and which are often more severe than accidents.'" The Trail of the Serpent FOR many years it has been known that the Standard Oil and Morgan groups of banks and trust companies, better known as the Money Power, have enjoyed special privileges in the Treasury department...
...He has struck the trail of the serpent...
...The Essence of Journalism WHEN newspaper writers and editors gath-ered at Madison last year to answer the question "Is the press free to tell the truth...
...No one will doubt, for example, that placing the financial cost of lead poisoning upon the lead industry will promote greater cleanliness in the lead trades...
...He immediately instituted an investigation which soon led to the discovery that the National City bank of New York (Standard Oil) acting through Vice President Ailes of the Riggs National bank of Washington, D. C, (Standard Oil connections), employed a clerk who occupied a desk in the Treasury department, and furnished certain information to the National...
...Because it has been a protection-nurtured industry for years and yet has not kept pacd with foreign competition and inroads...
...The principle is admitted that workmen should be compensated for injuries by accident arising out of their employment...
...This editor believes, and with good reason, that the ability of the men and women engaged in journalism in this country is of a high order...
...It is gratifying to know that Secretary McAdoo promptly put an end to this abuse...
...It is significant of the new day that along with the practical instruction given to the young men and women who are to help make the public opinion of tomorrow is instilled the Spirit of Service...
...The President said the production had steadily and rapidly been decreasing despite its high protection...
...Real self-govern-ment is at bottom public opinion, and the press is largely the creator of public opinion...
...Why Wilson Demands Free Wool and Sugar HERE are the 'reasons President Wilson gava why wool should be free of duty: "Because it goes onto the back of every man, woman and child, rich and poor...
Vol. 5 • May 1913 • No. 18
