Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — FOR SHIPMENT INSURANCE [ARTICLE]

FOR SHIPMENT INSURANCE

Seamen and Longshoremen Want Congress to Act on Compensation Bills. New York, Dec. 30.—Immediate pas- ■ sage by congress of bills now pending to extend workmen’s accident Insur-; ance to longshoremen and seamen, in order to rescue them from a legal “no-man’s-land,” was urged by speakers at the opening session of the fourteenth annual meeting of the American association for labor legislation here. The speakers declared differentiation should be made between sea-! men ‘and longshoremen in the appli-. cation of accident insurance, advocat- ’ ing federal administration for the for-, mer group, in order to insure uniformity and state Jurisdiction over the latter group, whose work is mostly' confined to land.