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WOMRTCOIMSAM
Extending Scope of Act
Sufferers from Miners' Phthisis
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In the House of Assembly last evening i
the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. James.
Ogden) moved the second readmg of a|
Bill to extend the benefits of the Workers
Compensation to ;
sttns not .«. now -- subject ^ to Its """ provisions,
and for other purposes.
Mr. Ogden said that an unusual procedure
was being adopted that evening.
Bill to amend the Workers' Compensaion
Act had been introduced in the
Legislative Council, but had been rejected,
largely, he believed, because of the
ction of the House of Assembly
rowding business up at the tail «id of
the session. He desired that the Council
be given another opportunity of consider-
ng the matter,and that occasion should f
be taken when the Bill was again introiiced
in the ^Legislative Council t>y L
onorary Minister (Mr. Shields) tfiat tne
question should be tested of whether it
would be possible to provide that those |
uffering' from miners phthisis should. t
ome under the Act There was every i
eason why that should be so. It waS
he law in most of the States and in Eng-.
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Ui ^nsiaeriHoa no m Another i
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t
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he scope of the Act instead of the latter
s at • present applymg — - , to those ,, • whose. j
!
rs had had their wages increased, with
he result that they were now outside the
cope of the Act
This was so in the
ase of emploves in such trades as bootaking,
brickmaking, butchering, coachuilding,
carpentering,
engine-driving,
ngineering, furniture making,
flourmillng,
ironmongers, plasterers,
plumbers, •
nd others, the employes in which were
eceiving over £4 a week.
The Act as
t present constituted
was
practically ^
seless because it failed to cover about
000 workers in the trades he had meniobed.
He moved that the Bill -be read
second time.
'
Tbe Treasurer gave his support, to the j
iotian.
.
Mr. Ogilvie said the Act gave little as-f
igtaace to the workers of the State atj
present. It was a fact that a man might
be working in, say, a timber mill, and
ave his hand badly mangled. If a doctor
coiild patch up the hand, and the (
worker, being a man of a hardy constitn-:
tion, was about again in two or three J
weeks, all he got was a paltry £4/10/. The'
old Act contained a schedule under which i
there was a scale of payment for the Joss J
of virions limbs, but that was taken out]
of treasurer the new would A<it take He that hoped "aspect that ol the j1
atter mt 0
id
consideration ana
a e
wouia next
Act mor e jf
i b ® ral i* 1 ®? 11 was f „ w^J, E
M r '
Hobbs
suggested that workers
be taeured not for eight hours ai
^ 7 but tor tte whole 24 houre. j
The employer; should be empowered to
.w6ek from the employes j
w a S eE ® certain cum for the purposes of
the premium. . He also contended that
ttiere
«hould' be one flat rate right
through.
The second reading was agreed to, and
the Bill taken through committee without
amendment, • read a " third time, and
traHBtottted to the Legislative Council,
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