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1912 Total age accident prevention Amputation Austrian Aver Average number ber Cent ber Biwabik BODY INJURED Breaks and Fractures Bruises and Crushings Bureau of Labor Burns and Scalds caught Cent ber Cent chapter Contributory negligence Cuts and Lacerations Cutters December 31 disability Duluth Duluth Union elevator employer employes employment engine Eye Injuries fatal accidents fell Finger guard Hibbing Indef instantly killed International ITASCA COUNTY June 30 ladder liability LOUIS COUNTY machine machinery MANUFACTURE MARITAL CONDITION MECHANICAL CAUSES mill Minn Minneapolis Union Minnesota Miscellaneous months Nationality NATURE OF INJURY Number Number Total Number of exits number of men OCCUPATION Officers-General superintendent Oliver Iron Mining open pit operator Paul Union railroad safety set screws shaft shipments to December Shipments-July slicing and caving Sprains and Dislocations steam shovel System of mining-Underground TABLE tion tons Total Number Total Per Cent Total shipments Unclassified wages week Wisconsin workmen
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Page 446 - The right of a person to sell his labor upon such terms as he deems proper is, in its essence, the same as the right of the purchaser of labor to prescribe the conditions upon which he will accept such labor from the person offering to sell it.
Page 32 - ... and in case of his neglect or refusal seasonably to do so, the employer to be liable for the reasonable expense incurred by or on behalf of the employee in providing the same.
Page 446 - In all such particulars the employer and the employee have equality of right, and any legislation that disturbs that equality is an arbitrary interference with the liberty of contract which no government can legally justify in a free land.
Page 445 - ... because of his membership in such a labor corporation, association or organization...
Page 42 - When our constitutions were adopted it was the law of the land that no man who was without fault or negligence could be held liable in damages for injuries sustained by another.
Page 42 - ... of the common law. That is only one of the forms of municipal law, and is no more sacred than any other. Rights of property which have been created by the common law cannot be taken away without due process; but the law itself, as a rule of conduct, may be changed at the will, or even at the whim of the Legislature, unless prevented by constitutional limitations.
Page 38 - ... is caused in whole, or in part, or is contributed to, by a necessary risk or danger of such employment, or a necessary risk or danger inherent in the nature thereof...
Page 41 - And in the next, it would seem that there may be other cases beside the everyday one of taxation, in which the share of each party in the benefit of a scheme of mutual protection is sufficient compensation for the correlative burden that it is compelled to assume.
Page 41 - In the first place, it is established by a series of cases that an ulterior public advantage may justify a comparatively insignficant taking of private property for what, in its immediate purpose, is a private use.
Page 39 - The test of the validity of such a law is not found in the inquiry, Does it do the objectionable things'? but is found rather in the inquiry, Is there no reasonable ground to believe that the public safety, health or general welfare is promoted thereby...