ACCIDENT COMPENSATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 8

ACCIDENT COMPENSATION

FULL PAY AND EXPENSES ‘ABSURD TO EXPECT ALL THAT’ “Another burden on the land.” commented Mr. J. C. !• ield at _to-day s meeting of the Poverty Bay Tanners Union. ’ when correspondence from the Dominion Secretary of the Farmers’ Union was read stating that the Alliance. of Labor was pressing for full medical expenses and full wages during incapacitation through injury during the employment of a worker. _ “Of course, they never expect that,” said Mr. J. It Benson. “They put that in and get something. H is absurd ,to expect all that.” The secertary, Air. C. Blackburn, remarked that tbovo would be plenty ot malingering. The president (MY. F. S. Bowen): The only protection we’ve got is for a man, when he’s lit to work, to go back again. Tt is not only putting a burden on the producers, but also on to all employers of labor. Mr. G. V. Smith: The commercial funis pass it on. Mr, Field : And when it comes on to, the producers it is a resting place. Mr. Benson referred to tlm proposal as spoon-feeding, for men were able to take precautions by joining benefit, societies, whereby all sickness and accident costs would be paid. Mr. Field : It will be. on a par with the dole at Home.

’The, president : Yes, it will come to that.

It was decided to object to the protiosnls put forward by the Alliance of Labor, and to support the. Farmers’ Union headquarters in making an investigation into the proposals.