INJURED IN

THE COURSE OF

DUTY

BY WILLIAM HARD

AND OTHERS

Reprinted, with some additions, from
EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE

BEING AN EXPOSITION AND SOME
CONCLUSIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF

INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS

HOW THEY HAPPEN, HOW THEY
ARE PAID FOR, AND HOW THEY
OUGHT TO BE PAID FOR

A PLAN

ON WHICH LABOR AND CAPITAL CAN
UNITE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF BOTH

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COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY

THE RIDGWAY COMPANY

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ADDRESSED TO

All Captains of Industry who wish to be captains of people as well as captains of money

All Labor Leaders who wish to advance the interests of their followers through coöperation as well as through combat

All Legislators who wish to take their part in a movement destined to produce, in the near future, in every State of the Union, a whole new body of law

All Americans who can be brought to realize that every accident (and especially every unpaid-for accident) hurts the country as well as the individual, and that a proper settlement of the accident question will effect a stupendous annual saving of national human resources. And, finally, to all persons of conscience who cannot rest easy till a great wrong is righted.

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S we have said in the magazine, the basis of our business is the necessity for earning a living.

But the same spirit that from time to time prompts you, Mr. Manufacturer, and you, Mr. Banker, and you, Mr. Foreman, and you, Mr. Legislator, to depart from your ordinary rules and to give lavishly of your time and money to some cause that seems to you good-that same spirit impels us to print this work.

We spent a great deal of money in getting the material for Everybody's Magazine, and a great deal more in trying to wake our three million readers to an interest in it.

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THE RIDGWAY COMPANY.