Part 4 (1/2)
The third injustice has been the waste occasioned by the system
The injured workman or the family deprived of its support by accident is not so circumstanced that the case can be contested with the corporation to the court of last resort The need of funds compels compromise on a base that is not always equitable
Huains that can hardly be endorsed by the moral scale In the final analysis the cost of attorney fees is so heavy that the amount which finally accrues in cases of accident is seriously curtailed before it reaches the beneficiary These three considerations clearly suggest the lifting of this whole operation out of the courts and the sphere of legal disputation And then there is a broader principle which nized There is no characteristic of our civilization so marked as the element of interdependence as between social units We are all dependent upon our fellows in one way or another Some occupations, however, are more hazardous than others and the rule of the past in coerous activities to bear unaided the burden of this great risk, is not right The Workmen's Compensation Law in this state, which, however, lacks the corowth in popularity The heavy decrease in rates clearly indicates economy and efficiency in the administration of the state liability board of awards The compulsory feature, however, should at once be added I respectfully but very earnestly urge its adoption aes as experience ht is the fullest erous occupations with the least burden of cost to society, because after all the social organization must pay for it The ultimate result of this laill be the reduction in death and accident because not only the huest the necessity of installing and ilance modern safety devices
”Govern the same practical lines which develop system, simplification, classification of kindred activities, and better administrative direction in the evolution of business A private or corporate enterprise is coree both efficiency and economy because its income is subject to the hazards of business Government without this spur of necessity because its revenue is both regular and certain, does not effect reorganizations and combine common activities so readily One reason, of course, is that new legislation is required and that is not easy at all ti directed toward more efficient public service, we find the consolidation under one administrative unit or bureau of all departments which deal either in direct or different ation develops many duplications in both labor and expense in the departments of the state No business institution would continue such a policy and recognizing now the i the same modern and efficient lines of private and corporate operations, there is submitted herewith to your honorable body two recoment, are of tremendous importance, namely, the creation of an Industrial Coanization would co department which deals with the relation between capital and labor It is certainly a logical observation that the department heads clothed with the responsibility of details will find it extremely difficult to rise to the moral vision necessary to construct and conserve policies dealing with big things Besides duplication of service is a waste of both hu up the results of a single year of Work of 1915 said:
”The humane results of the Workmen's compensation Law have been so widespread and the wisdo the constitution so as to make this plan compulsory has been so completely demonstrated that manufacturer and employee now join in praise of the act While the liability insurance companies contend that the State could not administer this trust and that the cost would run into millions of dollars per year, the experience of the first twelve months shows the cost of the administration to be approxi far in excess of 50,000 in number, have been adjudicated with such promptness as to justify in the fullest measure the soundness of the State plan The balance in the fund December 15, 1914, was 2,418,41407 The nu and the cost to the eer coh the store upon you the extreilance, patriotism and huislationthe law it can be easily eislation, and if the fundamental principle is maintained here, the plan, by its demonstrated worth, will be adopted elsewhere This otten rown rich fro people They will not give it up without a continued struggle Your duty to humanity and to your State calls for extreh he suffered defeat for re-election in 1914, neither the Industrial Commission Law nor the Workislation was disturbed by his successor In reviewing four years of the history of the law at his re-accession to power in 1917, he said:
”Since the adoption of the law there have been 300,000 industrial accidents and only seventeen suits have been brought against employers who paid into the state insurance fund There was but one single verdict rendered by the court against the employer in the list of seventeen and that was for 2000 Five cases were settled out of court, four were decided in favor of the employer, one was dismissed by the employee, one was dis More than one thousand firainst these institutions but five suits have been brought
Against the employers who have reinsured with the liability insurance co a total of thirty law suits froures are procured from the official records of the Industrial Commission”
Two years later, in 1919, a further chapter is given:
”The experience of our state with the Compulsory Workmen's Compensation Law bears so vitally on the industrial life of our people that it is dee features of the situation The amount of money in the fund held by the State as trustee for the injured workmen and their dependents, as of date, January 2, 1919, was 15,401,42974
So carefully measured has been the cost of human justice that employers pay a smaller premium-rate in Ohio than elsewhere, and the injured worker compensation A dramatic circumstance which bears eloquent testi since a workh which runs the boundary line between Ohio and Pennsylvania The accident occurred a few feet east of our state, but the poor felloled back onto the soil of Ohio because he knew the difference between our law and the law in Pennsylvania As a further evidence of the basic soundness of the law and the character of its administration, I have directed the Industrial Coe, with the imposed condition that the Ohio Federation of Labor, the Ohio Manufacturers' association and the State Auditor be consulted in the employment of the most competent actuary, obtainable outside the state service, to do the work”
This, then, is the story, but not all of it Having its genesis in the s between labor and capital, there has been worked out by the two an elaborate code of safety rules which have been officially pro effect of law To-day capital and labor will demand of his successor that his heart and ram carried to fruition in his six years as Governor There are other points in his service, briefly covered here, in these lists:
Laws Pertaining to Business
A public utilities law providing property re-valuation as a basis for rate
Provision for court appear from the utilities commission decision to the court of final jurisdiction, preventing delay and loss
Prohibition against injunction on rate hearing without court investigation
A unifor syste code with close co-operation with the federal reserve syste all private banks under state supervision
State expenditure on a budget systeoverne proper investainst fraudulent securities
Labor Legislation
A State Industrial Co capital and labor, with a state mediator as the keystone
Complete survey of occupational diseases with recommendation for health and occupational insurance
Full switching crew in all railroad yards