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    Proceedings

    Third National Conference

    Workmen's Compensation For
    Industrial Accidents


    Chicago, June 10-11, 1910


    Including
    A Brief Report of
    The Second National Conference
    Washington, January 20, 1910


    Copies may be had at fifty cents each from
    JOHN B. ANDREWS, _Assistant Secretary_,
    Metropolitan Tower, New York City.




GENERAL OFFICERS.


    _Chairman_                                    CHARLES P. NEILL
        Commissioner United States Bureau of Labor

    _Vice-Chairman_                               CHARLES MCCARTHY
        Chief Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library

    _Treasurer_                                    HENRY W. FARNAM
        Yale University

    _Secretary_                                       H. V. MERCER
        Chairman Minnesota Employees Compensation Commission

    _Assistant Secretary_                          JOHN B. ANDREWS
        Secretary American Association for Labor Legislation


EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

(In Addition to the General Officers).

    HENRY R. SEAGER, _Chairman_,
        Vice-Chairman, New York Commission

    WILLIAM E. MCEWEN,
        Member Minnesota Commission

    A. W. SANBORN,
        Chairman Wisconsin Commission

    EDWIN R. WRIGHT,
        Secretary Illinois Commission

    JAMES A. LOWELL,
        Chairman Massachusetts Commission

    WILLIAM B. DICKSON,
        Chairman New Jersey Commission

    WILLIAM J. ROHR,
        Chairman Ohio Commission

    HENRY W. BULLOCK,
        Delegate from Indiana

    JAMES V. BARRY,
        Delegate from Michigan

    MILES M. DAWSON,
        Member-at-large




             Proceedings

      Third National Conference

      Workmen's Compensation For
        Industrial Accidents

      Chicago, June 10-11, 1910

              Including
          A Brief Report of
    The Second National Conference
     Washington, January 20, 1910




CONTENTS

                                                                     PAGE.

    I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE, INCLUDING BY-LAWS                              3

   II. PROGRAM                                                         5-6

  III. PROCEEDINGS                                                       7

       1. Friday Forenoon Session, June 10                              10

       2. Friday Afternoon Session, June 10                             39

        (1) "Worker's Compensation Code," An Outline for Discussion     40

       3. Saturday Forenoon Session, June 11                            82

  APPENDIX,--Brief Report of Washington Conference, January 20, 1910   124

  INDEX                                                                136


  Princeton University Press
  Princeton, N. J.




INTRODUCTORY NOTE.


The National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial
Accidents was organized at Atlantic City, July 29-31, 1909. The
second meeting was held in Washington, January 20, 1910. The third
meeting, June 10-11, 1910, was in Chicago. The nature of the
Conference is clearly set forth as follows:

BY-LAWS.

    1. The name of this organization shall be the National
    Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents.

    2. Its purpose shall be to bring together the members of
    the commissions and committees of the various States and of
    the National Government, representatives to be appointed by
    the governors of the different States, and other interested
    citizens, to discuss plans of workmen's compensation and
    insurance for industrial accidents.

    3. Its officers shall be a chairman, a vice-chairman, a
    secretary, an assistant secretary and a treasurer, to be
    elected annually and to hold office until their successors
    shall have been elected.

    4. The business of the organization shall be conducted by an
    executive committee, consisting of the officers and of other
    members, said committee to represent at least ten different
    States.

    5. The voting members of the Conference shall be the members,
    secretaries and counsels of all State Commissions or committees
    on the subject, one or more representatives to be appointed by
    the governors of different States, and ten members at large to
    be elected at any regular meeting of the Conference.

    6. Individuals and associations of individuals may be
    admitted as associate members, and as such, be entitled to
    the privileges of the floor and to receive the publication of
    the Conference upon the payment of $2.00 per annum for each
    such individual member, and $25.00 per annum for each such
    association.

    7. No resolution committing the Conference to any fixed
    program, policy or principle, shall be deemed in order at any
    of its meetings, except upon unanimous vote.

    8. The funds of the Conference shall be derived from
    contributions from the commissions and committees on the
    subject, and from voluntary subscriptions.

The proceedings of the Atlantic City Conference are published in a
volume of 340 pages, and copies may be had, at fifty cents each,
from H. V. Mercer, of Minneapolis. The proceedings of the Chicago
Conference (including as an Appendix on pages 124-135 a brief report
of the Washington Conference, the proceedings of which have not been
printed _in extenso_), may be had at fifty cents a copy by addressing
John B. Andrews, Metropolitan Tower, New York City.




PROGRAM


Third National Conference on Industrial Accidents and Workmen's
Compensation

Auditorium Hotel, Chicago

June 10-11, 1910

    _Chairman_                CHARLES P. NEILL
        Commissioner United States Bureau of Labor

    _Secretary_                   H. V. MERCER
        Chairman Minnesota Employees' Compensation Commission

    _Assistant Secretary_      JOHN B. ANDREWS
        Secretary American Association for Labor Legislation


FRIDAY FORENOON SESSION, 9:30

BRIEF REPORTS FROM STATE COMMISSIONS

    _Minnesota_: H. V. Mercer, William E. McEwen, George M. Gillette.

    _Wisconsin_: A. W. Sanborn, E. T. Fairchild, John J. Blaine, Wallace
      Ingalls, C. B. Culbertson, Walter D. Egan, George G. Brew.

    _New York_: J. Mayhew Wainwright, Joseph P. Cotton, Jr., Henry
      R. Seager, Crystal Eastman, Howard R. Bayne, Frank C. Platt,
      George A. Voss, Cyrus W. Phillips, Edward D. Jackson, Alfred D.
      Lowe, Frank B. Thorn, Otto M. Eidlitz, John Mitchell, George W.
      Smith.

    _Illinois_: Ira G. Rawn, E. T. Bent, Robert E. Conway, P. A.
      Peterson, Charles Piez, Mason B. Starring, M. J. Boyle, Patrick
      Ladd Carr, John Flora, George Golden, Daniel J. Gorman, Edwin R.
      Wright.

    _New Jersey_: William D. Dickson, J. William Clark, Samuel Botterill,
      John T. Cosgrove, Harry D. Leavitt, Walter E. Edge.

    _Massachusetts_: James A. Lowell, Amos T. Saunders, Magnus W.
      Alexander, Henry Howard, Joseph A. Parks.

    _Ohio_: (Members to be appointed by the Governor.)

GENERAL DISCUSSION "Workers' Compensation Code"

(Outline for Discussion)

    Representatives of the Federal Government, Members of State
      Commissions, Delegates designated by Governors of States,
      Representatives of Manufacturers' Associations and Trade
      Unions, Insurance Companies, Russell Sage Foundation and
      Association for Labor Legislation, and other interested
      organizations and individuals.


FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:00

WORKERS' COMPENSATION CODE (Discussion continued).


SATURDAY FORENOON SESSION, 9:30

SPECIAL DISCUSSION:

    Classification of Hazardous Employments.
    Repeal of Common Law and Statutory Remedies.
    Contract vs. Absolute Liability.
    Limited Compensation vs. Pension Plan.
    Court Administration vs. Boards of Arbitration.




PROCEEDINGS

Third National Conference

Workmen's Compensation For Industrial Accidents

Chicago, June 10-11, 1910


The third meeting of the National Conference on Workmen's
Compensation for Industrial Accidents brought together from widely
separated parts of the United States a large number of those who
represent the serious thought of the country on this most urgent
question. Members of State Commissions in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Illinois, New York and Massachusetts were present and submitted
reports. Thirty-eight official delegates were appointed by the
governors of States, and, in addition, representatives were present
from manufacturers' associations, trade unions, insurance companies,
the Russell Sage Foundation, the Association for Labor Legislation,
and other interested organizations. Many individuals from the shops,
the offices and the universities, attended the various sessions and
listened to the arguments of the speakers or participated in the
discussions.

Among those present who took an active interest in the meetings were:

Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago; T. W. Allinson, Henry Booth House,
Chicago; W. A. Allport, Member Illinois Commission on Occupational
Diseases and State Delegate; L. A. Anderson, State Insurance