Excerpt from Evidence and Arguments Before the Committee on the Judiciary on the Subject of Regulating the Liability of Employers, in Cases of Accidents to Their Operatives Through the Carelessness of Fellow-Employees: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Mr. Fall. They reported the Gladstone bill. Under the English law, an employee is allowed to contract out of the act under our law he is not. The legislature, if it sees fit, can of course repeal that law; but while it remains on the statute book, the employee cannot contract out of the act. Mr. Torrey. Are you willing the legislature should repeal that law as a part of your act? Mr. Fall. No; for the reason that it spoiled the whole effect of the Gladstone bill, and would Spoil the whole effect of any law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.