ployer shall make a supplemental report on blanks furnished by the commission for the purpose. The said reports shall state the name and nature of the business of the employer, the location of his establishment, the name, age, sex and occupation of the injured employee, the date and hour of the accident, the nature and cause of the injury, and such other information as may be required by the commission. Any employer who refuses or neglects to make a report required by this resolve shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each offence. The total additional expense to be incurred under this resolve shall not exceed the sum of thirteen thousand dollars. [Approved June 30, 1911. V. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES: California, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin, Federal Law,. Proposed Federal Compensation Act, VI. CONSIDERATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF A COMPULSORY LAW VII. STATISTICS OF ACCIDENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS, MAY 1, 1911, TO PAGE 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 86 88 88 89 90 91 93 93 95 109 STATISTICS FROM THE PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE COMMISSION, 155 161 E. D. FULL TEXT OF COMPENSATION ACTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 164 318 REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION ON COMPENSATION FOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS. I. WORK OF THE COMMISSION. APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMISSION. The Massachusetts Commission on Compensation for Industrial Accidents was established by chapter 120 of the Resolves of 1910, which was approved June 7, 1910. His Excellency the Governor, Eben S. Draper, on the 8th of June, 1910, appointed as members of the.commission the following: James A. Lowell of Newton, chairman; Amos T. Saunders of Clinton; Magnus W. Alexander of Lynn; Henry Howard of Brookline; and Joseph A. Parks of Fall River. The commission completed its organization by the election of Amos T. Saunders as secretary and the appointment of Carroll W. Doten as chief investigator. Two members of the commission are lawyers, two are employers and one is a representative of the employees' point of view. Three members had served several terms in the Legislature, and two of these were, at the time of their appointment, members of the House. All of the members had given considerable thought to the subject before their appointment and were keenly interested in the matter and in sympathy with the purposes set forth in the resolve. SCOPE OF THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION. The commission was limited by the terms of the resolve to certain definite lines. It was not within the scope of its functions to gather statistics to show that the existing method of determining the compensation of employees for injuries sustained in the course of their employment was inadequate and undesirable, for the Legislature had gone on record to that effect in providing for the commission. The commission, therefore, ac |