Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1915 — ONLY FEW EMPLOYERS REJECT NEW LAW [ARTICLE]

ONLY FEW EMPLOYERS REJECT NEW LAW

Compensation Law to Go Into Effect September Ist—Farmers Only Are Exempted.

The new workmen’s compensation law will go into effect September first. Only farmers and employers of domestic servants are exempt from its provisions—all other employers of labor being compelled to take out insurance to protect their employes from injury, or to take advantage of the provision of the law allowing employers to carry their own insurance. With the expiration of the time limit for employers to reject the provisions of the act before it becomes a law on September Ist, members of the industrial board of Indiana, which has charge of the administration of the law, expressed gratification Wednesday over the prospects of the new law being popular with the majority of large employers of labor. It was announced that only 224 employers have filed notices of their rejection of the provisions of the law. It is required that every employer give 30 days’ notice if he does not wish to operate under the statute. Those who fail to give such notice are considered as automatically operating under the law.

Among the 224 deciding not to operate under the law are the Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Co., the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Co., the Evansville Public Service Co., the Public Utlities Co., of Evansville and the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Light and Power Co. Eighteen concerns have (been given the privilege of carrying their own insurance.

The Main Garage wrote to the authorities at Indianapolis asking if garages came under the new law, and received a reply that they did and could not exempt themselves from liability. Among others mentioned as coming under the provisions of the law were hitch barns and barbers.