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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts)
Sat May 3, 2014, 06:49 PM May 2014

May 3, 1911


http://nhlabornews.com/2014/05/may-3-1911/

May 3, 1911



Wisconsin enacts the nation’s first state constitutional Workmen’s Compensation Act, guaranteeing injury compensation as a legal right. The constitutionality of the Act was upheld by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on November 1 (and by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1926).

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May 3, 1911 (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2014 OP
I thought as much. . . Stargleamer May 2014 #1
He don't know much about his-tor-y. Enthusiast May 2014 #3
Why yes Steve, I can see why they blamed........ socialist_n_TN May 2014 #2

Stargleamer

(1,989 posts)
1. I thought as much. . .
Sat May 3, 2014, 07:57 PM
May 2014

so strange that an extreme right-wing Rush Fan at work (btw, a state government agency, i.e. one that pays him using tax dollars) owes his very job to having been able to have gotten workers' comp.

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