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"Costs less to kill maim'

By Bernard Franks

Workers Press no. 249, 9 September 1970 · scan page 5

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Anthony Woolfe, a partner in a firm of solicitors which specializes in plaintiffs' actions for industrial accident and sickness compensation, suggests the dowen factories or closing factories which have broken safety or health regulations.

No counsel le suggests this may be ecause they must conduc their own cases without help from counsel, while the company's defence is always prepared by a professional barrister.

Attacking the employers' attitude, Woolfe cites a case where a rivetter on a big construction site fell 180 feet to his death when a rope holding the staging came untied.

The most significant thing about this accident - and one which would not be considered in the factory inspector's investigations— is that rivetters are paid so much per hundred rivets, but not for the time it takes to put up the staging, comments Woolfe.

Needless to say they try to get the staging up in the shortest possible time so that they can start earning, he says, adding:

"Think of the number of

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