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 LABOR CONDITIONS IN CITY OF PARIS 827

6. In case of accident happening during work and resulting in a tempo- rary incapacity, the workmen shall receive their entire wages until complete recover)', without prejudice to the indemnity which shall be due to them in case of final disability, either total or partial.

7. The workmen employed in the enterprise shall be insured against acci- dent at the sole cost of the leasing company, which shall not under this head make any deductions from the wages due. Moreover, whatever may be determined in regard to the responsibility for an accident, the leasing com- pany shall always be directly responsible to the victim for the payment of the indemnity.

A physician appointed by the management of the special fund, estab- lished in accordance with Article XIX below, shall be summoned to report upon each accident, and it shall be his duty to state the nature and the results of the same.

8. The administration of the city shall always have the right to prescribe such measures of safety and health as may be considered necessary.

9. A written commission shall be delivered, under the form of a wage contract, to every adult employe or workman, of either sex, who may have completed twenty-four months of service.

The leasing company is required to observe strictly the conditions above enumerated, in regard to the labor of its employes, under penalty of forfeiture of the lease.

Article XIX. The leasing company binds itself further:

(a) To furnish to the working personnel in its employ deposit books of the National Pension Fund. The payments shall be made by means of a 2 per cent, deduction from the wages of the employes and a 4 per cent, contribu- tion by the company, making 6 per cent., which shall be deposited in their name by the leasing company, on the conditions defined below.

However, whenever the number of passengers shall exceed 220,000,000, the deduction from the wages of the laborers shall be reduced to i per cent., and the contribution by the company increased to 6 per cent., thus making the payment to be made in their name by the leasing company 7 per cent.

(b) To establish a free medical and drug service.

(f) To insure its laborers and employes against accidents.

To insure the execution of paragraph (b) of the present article, as well as paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 of the preceding article, the leasing company shall organize a special fund, which shall be managed by the workmen and employes themselves.

The leasing company shall charge to general expenses a sum sufficient to make the payments stipulated in (a), (!>), and (c).

It is an interesting fact that the introduction of these provisions into the lease did not give rise to any prolonged negotiations between the parties con- cerned, nor did it excite any considerable discussion either in the city council