ITS ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15243, 3 December 1919, Page 3

ITS ASPIRATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS.

(No. 4.)

THE WORKERS' SHARE,

In the old days what happened when a workman was brougnt home on. a str^cicheriJ What happened when ho got 'maimed? There was redress at Common i Law, flow, difficult, with much uncer--1 tainty and drawn-out litigation. Today redress is certain, immediate, substantial and cheap. The woi leers' compensation system is not yet perfect, but fclie Liberals, who initiated it a generation ago, can be trusted to bring it up to the level of modern requirements, in ae- ' cordance with the best principles of pro- ', gressive democracy. | It is possible to review in full detail . the long list, of multifarious acts by ■ which the Seduon Ministry strove to caiiy into effect its declared policy of *.o(:u'ring the welfare of the majority, in preference to defending and fostering the interests and privileges of the favoured few. But what is most remnrkable about these measures is that while they are based upon ideal conceptions that in those days seemed hopelessly visionary and Utopian, they were all severely practical in character, and when these laws were enforced they proved a great practical success.