Word: workman
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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...especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise. A great opportunity...
...legislature of New York State recently passed a workman's compensation act, a much needed measure, which the highest court threw out as unconstitutional. In doing this, the court exercised a legislative function, a power which the courts of no other country attempt to exercise. It is in these cases where the judiciary and the legislature clash, that Mr. Roosevelt wishes the decision submitted to the people for their final arbitration...