1963 Press Photo Waller Young with Safety Council members at conference.

The distortion of workmen's compensation laws has resulted in more of a welfare plan than workmen's compensation, a Lake Charles attorney charged Monday. "We need legislative relief badly," said William R. Tete, who is with the firm Jones, Kimball, Harper, Tete and Wetherill. "The high cost of workmen's compensation in Louisiana as compared with other states, is resulting in the resulting in the retardation of economic and industrial development in the state," said Tete. Meeting Monday at a session of the Louisiana Safety Conference here are (from left), Henry R. Rauber, president of the conference; W. Waller Young, Jr., president of the Metropolitan New Orleans Safety Council, and Dr. George N. Constan, general manager, Michoud Operations, for NASA.

Photo is dated 1963.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.