The Archive · 1938

Apprenticeship System

Dealing with the apprenticeship system, the report states that in small scale industry employing young boy labour there exists a system of sọ- pared to write group insurance covering industrial accident risks. The policies cover compensation for death and partial disability, and payment of hospital expenses. Rates quoted are a percentage per $100 annual wages paid. One Company now covers the collective risks of eleven plants. A second company has advertised its policies using as a basis of argument the industrial accident figures published monthly by the Industrial Section.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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