North Carolina To Consider Workmen's Compensation Bill, Dec. 4, 1920

Raleigh, Nov. 4—Suggestion has been made that the Virginia workmen’s compensation law as recently passed be used as a basis for a similar law now being proposed for North Carolina. This recommendation will be made to the special legislative committee, named at a special session of the general assembly this summer, when the committee meets here on December 14. The meeting is called by Chairman Lindsay Warren of Beaufort county to give persons interested an opportunity to approve or oppose the legislation before a tentative bill is drafted and submitted to the regular session of the legislature next January. It is pointed out that the Virginia law with amendments is one of the last passed and that its provisions will apply to North Carolina conditions. Changes may be made but the Virginia bill will be used as a basis for writing the North Carolina law. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Dec. 4, 1920)