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Pennsylvania workers, injured in the course of their employ ment, have received compensation for their injuries ever since the original Workmen's Compensation Act became effective January 1, 1916. But the worker disabled by occu pational disease--as much a victim of his employment as his co-worker who sustains a physical injury--has thus far received no compensation for his disability. It has been only within recent years that society has come to recognize its obligation to workers disabled by indus trial disease. Assumption of the obligation has followed recognition--20 other states, including most of the indus trial states, now have occupational disease compensation laws. In Pennsylvania, in addition to such common indus trial hazards as load, benml and carbon disulphide, there is the serious problem of anthraco-silicosis among the anthra cite miners. Recognizing its obligations, the administration drafted an occupational disease supplement to the Workmen's Com pensation Law, which was introduced by Representatives Eugene A. Caputo, of Beaver County, and Arthur R. Schor, of Philadelphia County. A digest ot the new law, together with some of the results of investigations of industrial dis ease hazards, are featured in this issue of the Bulletin. Harrisburg December, 1937 Socratary of Labor and Industry i ii iii *11 `