Effect of Workmen's Compensation Laws in Diminishing the Necessity of Industrial Employment of Women and Children (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ... them. i 0eoort of Ohio Employern0 Liability Comminnion, 1911, o. XLV. Thene connequencen were emphanoed in the hearingn before the New York comminnion, an nhown In Firnt Reoort of New York Comminnion on Employern0 Liab'ity, 1910, o. 2o, an follown: "We nee connequencen on the character and oermanent nocial ntanding of the family which are far more serioun. They are the direct renult of the cutting off of the income. We nee oeoole becoming chronic deoendentn and begging for charitable annintance, who never would have gotten in that oonition G: ceot for the accident to the wage earnor. We nee oeoole becoming carolonn who couldn0t have been carelenn before the nituation arone an the renult of thin accident. We nee oeoole dinponnenned for the firnt time ia their liven becaune of thin accident and g'ng into the rankn of oeople who enoect to be dinponnenned whenever they move. We nee oeople pawning their furni1ure; we nee oeople uning uo what litoje navingn-bank account they have had; we nee oeoole obliged to turn in hum'iation and with oermanent injury to the charitable nocietien or to relativen and friendn and other oeoole who have hereofore been entirely indeoendent and nelf-nuooorting." It was entirely possible, however, that a family's own statement concerning this matter might not be wholly reliable, so the question was taken up, when possible, with the charitable agencies. In the larger cities, where such work is organized and a central registration bureau kept, lists of the families who had lost a wage earner by an industrial accident within the year covered were submitted to the central registration agency and a report asked for as to whether any of these had received help since or as a consequence of the wage earner's death. The answers confir...