On the record
Workmen should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in industry irrespective of negligence.
Source
gutenberg.orgWorkmen should receive certain and definite compensation for all accidents in industry irrespective of negligence.
Roosevelt emphasizes the need for guaranteed compensation for all industrial accidents, regardless of negligence.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.
Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.