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Excerpt from Report of the Workmen's Compensation Commission to the Forty-Eighth General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 1914
Of the bills recommended by the Commission the Workmen's Compensation Act involves changes in the fundamental law of this State which are far reaching and important, and which should only be made with a thorough understanding and for -reasons which are sound and practical. The chief cause of the indus trial unrest and bitter feeling due to industrial accidents and of the evils of our present system of compensating for them, is best expressed by Sir Henry Maine, who at page 23 of his Ancient Law, says. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
