. Labor problems and labor legislation . ave been de-vised to apportion compensation to the degreeof incapacity. Important provisions in most ofthe acts require employers to insure their risk,sometimes in a state fund, in order to guaranteebenefits to the injured, and provide for super-visory administration by a state bureau or com-mission. A beginning has also been made inproviding vocational reeducation or rehabilita-tion for men who sustain permanent injurieswhich interfere with their continuing in theirold occupations. In about a dozen laws, including the federalemployees act, occupational
. Labor problems and labor legislation . ave been de-vised to apportion compensation to the degreeof incapacity. Important provisions in most ofthe acts require employers to insure their risk,sometimes in a state fund, in order to guaranteebenefits to the injured, and provide for super-visory administration by a state bureau or com-mission. A beginning has also been made inproviding vocational reeducation or rehabilita-tion for men who sustain permanent injurieswhich interfere with their continuing in theirold occupations. In about a dozen laws, including the federalemployees act, occupational diseases are cov-ered. It has been found that so doing staves offhardships in some meritorious cases, and in-creases the cost of the act only 1 or 2 per cent. [115] LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION Health Insurance Most sickness from which wage-earners suf-fer, however, cannot be clearly and directlytraced to industry. Therefore even the wideadoption of occupational disease compensationwould leave most of the sickness hazard uncov-. (Courtesy New York Womens Joint Legislative Conference.) PROTECTED! This workingmans family if ready for the inevitable rainy day caused by sickness. [116] SOCIAL INSURANCE ered. Further protection is needed if the pres-ent enormous yearly wage losses and doctorsbills are to be more equitably distributed. The draft boards have shown that about athird of Americas young manhood is physicallyunfit for military service. Sickness causes seventimes as much appeal to charity as do industrialaccidents. About one-third of those too ill towork are getting no medical care. Every year15,000 mothers die from causes connected withchildbirth, and 250,000 infants are carried offin the first year of their lives. Throughout thecountry the degenerative diseases—the wear andtear diseases—are on the increase. These well-known facts point to the need forsocial action, and one of the most frequentlyindicated steps is the establishment of workmenshealth insurance.
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