Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. no. 456, 1928, Issue 456

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928
 

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Page 210 - So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work.
Page 98 - The nasopharynx extends from the base of the skull to the level of the soft palate.
Page 156 - The defenses of contributory negligence, assumption of risk, and negligence of a fellow servant were...
Page 253 - SECTION 1. This association shall hold meetings once a year, or oftener, for the purpose of bringing together the officials charged with the duty of administering the workmen's compensation laws of the United States and Canada to consider, and, so far as possible, to agree on standardizing (a) ways of cutting down accidents; (6) medical, surgical, and hospital treatment for injured workers; (c) means for the reeducation of injured workmen and their restoration to industry...
Page 189 - It is impossible to lay down a rule by which the status of men working and contracting together can be definitely defined in all cases as employees or independent contractors. Each case must depend on its own facts, and ordinarily no one feature of the relation is determinative, but all must be considered together.
Page 254 - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Section 1. There shall be an executive committee of the board...
Page 156 - A master or member of a crew of any vessel, nor any person engaged by the master to load or unload or repair any small vessel under eighteen tons net...
Page 189 - It is not the actual exercise of the right by interfering with the work, but the right to control which constitutes the test. "An independent contractor is one who undertakes to produce a given result without being in any way controlled as to the method by which he attains that result.
Page 67 - Up to the present time there does not appear to have been any organized effort on their part to cooperate with each other toward reducing this gap. Numbers of companies are in competition with each other for the desirable business, and cutthroat methods sometimes prevail. Each company maintains its own complete organization, including its office force, its agents, adjusters, attorneys, and physicians.
Page 253 - III — Membership SECTION 1. Membership shall be of two grades, active and associate. SEC. 2. Active membership. — Each State of the United States and each Province of Canada having a workmen's compensation law, the United States Employees...

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