Word: workman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University paint shop, in the small wing of Lawrence Hall, near the Music Building, was damaged to the extent of $300 or $400 by fire yesterday afternoon. The fire started in a workman's locker about 5.15 o'clock, probably from spontaneous combustion. The smoke soon attracted attention, and an alarm was turned in. The smoke from the paint and oil was very dense, but the fire was confined to two rooms, and did not reach the adjoining office in the passageway to Lawrence Hall, where preparations had been made to remove the more important papers...
Exeter.--Anderson, Atha, Beers, Dunn, Fleming, Garside, Johnson, Lamson, Nevin, Newman, Rogers, Workman...
...Holmes advocated strongly a workman's compensation act, but did not believe the entire liability should fall on the owner. The suggested remedy was for the state, the owner and the employee to contribute equal amounts for the compensation fund, and to have an equal voice in the administration...
...especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise. A great opportunity...
...legislature of New York State recently passed a workman's compensation act, a much needed measure, which the highest court threw out as unconstitutional. In doing this, the court exercised a legislative function, a power which the courts of no other country attempt to exercise. It is in these cases where the judiciary and the legislature clash, that Mr. Roosevelt wishes the decision submitted to the people for their final arbitration...