Teddy Roosevelt: “It was a marked step in advance to get the recognition of employers'…”

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It was a marked step in advance to get the recognition of employers' liability on the statute books; but the law did not go far enough.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt critiques the employers' liability law for not going far enough in protecting workers.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “It was a marked step in advance to get the recognition of employers' liability on the statute books; but the law did not…”