PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S POLICY.
A PLEA FOR INDIVIDUALISM. COMPENSATION TO WORKERS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 11th, 10.57 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 11 President Roosevelt, in a speech at Norfolk, Virginia, earnestly hoped that tho country's superbly self-reliant in dividualism would never be exchanged for deadening socialism. Ho advooat cd tho passing of legislation whereby tho burden of compensation to workmen would fall on employers, who, by increasing tho price of their products, would place it on the general public There was no Bound economic reason for distinction between accidents dv-_ to negligence, and those unavoidable Tho law should make payment auto matio.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12828, 12 June 1907, Page 7
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106PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S POLICY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12828, 12 June 1907, Page 7
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