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The result was that the premiums on policies for window cleaning operations were very high, and literally some of these men couldn't raise the money to pay the premiums. It was almost prohibitive.

The proposal that we finally made was that they should all be insured in the State Fund and that the State Fund must accept them. They could not refuse anybody. They must accept them and they must collect the premiums as best they could. After there had been an accident and the employer had been found uninsured, the State Fund would be allowed to sell out all they had and attach their property to collect the premium. We'd put them out of business, and perhaps if he had been a repeater, we would send him to prison as an example. Even though he proved on examination to have almost no property and therefore the State Fund couldn't realize more than a $150 out of all that he had, out of which they had to pay a premium of $2500 on a couple of death cases, the recommendation was that the State Fund should still cover them and pay for them out of the general funds they had on hand. That meant they were not to distribute funds as back payment premiums to employers who'd had a good record and hadn't had any accidents.

There was great controversy about it. It was telling the Governor episodes of individuals who had had these