Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1924, Page 5

S HORERS ADBIL ISHIT BY GOMPERS Says Underhill Measure Does Not Give Protection Fitz- gerald Plan Offers. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. was \ tho witness today in favor of the Fitzgerald workmen's compensation bill, as opposed to the Underhill com~ petitive insurance measure, at the hearing before a special subcommit- teo of the House District commit- tee of which Representative Roy G. Fltzgorald of Ohlo is chalrman. Mr. Gompers pointed out that the vee of the employes' compensation commis-lon to administer the state fund under the Fitzgerald bill is not vreating & new body, but is using «n organization which has been functioning ably and satisfactorily. Accidents caused by modern in- dustry, he argued. should be borne by the industry rather than by the victims or their dependents, The position that the Undérhill bill 1g for tho advantage of the employes iv untenable and indefensible, as it is for the advantage of the employers Just as much, he sald. Less protection is given by the Un- derhill mensure to the Insured in- ured workmen, Mr. Gompers added. o attacked particalarlythe provi- slon that workmen of dependents may sue, saving that that is just what “we are trying to obviate.” “I am not going to attribute any tmproper or sordid motives to the insurance companies,” sald Mr. Gom- pers. “That is their business, and they want to avoid letting any busi- ness slip away from them. “They are the worst bargaih drivers to injured workmen and the family of the Injured workmen of any have seen in modern soclety.” Mr. Gompers described to the committes “trickery” used in bargaining with the insured injured workmen to ac- Gept a smaller settlement than he was entitled to. « _The main feature of the Underhill bill. he said. Is that it provides proper mcthods for litigation, suits, cases before the courts, etc. “Litigation. more litigation; law- yers, more lawyers, and more law- vers' fees!” exclaimed Mr. Gompers. “We want a measure under which 2 man's injurfes will not be viewed from the cold, legal vision, but from ~ humane standpoint, even if it 1s without precedent” Mr. Gompers called attention that under the Underhill bill, compensa-~ tlon is cut 50 per cent at the end of 530 weeks, commenting that, just when the man injured needs it most, when he is growing older and poorer, his Income is cut in half. Great care has been shown to pro- tect the insurance companies and the employers from any hardship, he de- clared. Mr. Gompers expressed his opinion that the Underhill bill provides that catasrophes shall not be paid for by the employer, such as destruction of bulldings by earthquake, fire, flood, ete. On the contrary, the Fitzgerald bl provides for relnsurance against such extra hazards. e Benefit Card Party Tonight. Hundreds of District employes and their friends will guther in the main Tobby of the District building tonight for a card party and dance, the pro- eeds of which will go into the fund for the relief of municipal workers in time of stress. James L. Martin, mecretary to Commissioner Bell, is ohairman of thc committee on ar- ARGUE RATE FIXING FOR D. C. UTILITIES Subtraction of Depreciated Re- serves of Public Service Cor- porations an Issue. Legal arguments for and against the proposal that the depreciation re- serves of the public service corpora- tions be subtracted from the valua- tions In fixing rates is belng argued before the Utilitles Commission at the District bullding this afternoon. Willlam McK. Clayton is expected appear on behalf of the citizens' oclations. In previous rate cases Mr. Clayton has argued that the de- preclation fund should be taken from fair value in arriving at the base upon which to fix rates. Several of the public utility law- yers, it Is expected, will present the legal side of the objections which they raised yesterday to such deduc- tions_from value. Point Made by Corporations. It was strenuously contended by the officers of the utilities yesterday that the suggestion of the commission to deduct depreciation funds from fair value would constitute a revalu- atlon of propertles, and that & revalu- ation could not be made by such a “ghort-cut method, The commission’s decision on this Intricate question will be an impor- tant one, sinco it might have the effect of changing the rates being charged by some of the companies, At the afternoon sesslon yesterda Willlam F. Ham, president of the P tomac Electric Power Company, co tended that because the origin valuation of that utility is still being contested In the local courts the co ta misaion cannot_disturh.that valua- tion by deducting the di Te- serve from | alrman thou‘rh would be pi . Mo added he did not believe a valyation should necessarily be as exhaustive as the original ones made by the commis- slon seven or eight years ago. It n:rl‘-ln ecessary for you to find out how many nails were nsed n ‘Maj. Bell's Comment. Commenting today on this line of inquiry, Maj. Bell sald he did not be- leve it would accompligh any good to attempt to revalue the utilities now until the original valuations have been settled by the courts George P. Hoover, attorney for the ‘Washington and Georgetown gaslight companies, presented yesterday after- noon the objections of those corpora-. tions to deducting depreclation funds from fair value. Dozier A. de Vane, attorney for the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, told the commission ye terday that, in his opinion, it could not change telephone rates at this time without revaluing the telephone property. The commission has under conslder- ation at this time a petition from the Federation of Citizens' Associations for reduced telephone rate et e COMMISSIONED IN 0. B. C. Byron R. Patton, 2301 Cathedral avenue, has been commissioned as & major of infantry, Orgunized Re- eerve Corps of the Army: Laurence A. Slaughter, Hotel Grafton, as & major in the Quartermaster Corps, Organized Reserves, d Grant A. Willlams, Fort Myer, Va., as second lieutenant, general service, Organized Reserv “It s & matter of considerable prid in writes Perry B. 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