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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1937.
COAL'S GRIM TOLL OF WORKERS WOUNDED FROM
Victims 4 Abreast For 30 Miles
(By IAN MACKAY)
-Mr. Herbert Smith
Blackpool, July 22.
IF all the miners who are killed and injured in the pits every year were to march four abreast, the grim column would stretch for 29 miles.
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Every 60 yards there would be an ambulance con- taining a maimed man who would never work again, and every 80 yards there would be a hearse carrying a corpse. That is the pitiful price the miners pay in order that the social and economic organisation of civilisation may survive..
The man who made that dramatic statement to the Mine- workers' Federation here to-day knows what he is talking about.
He was Mr. Herbert Smith, the Mr. Ted Jonra (North Wales) said. grand old veteran of the rainers they should do everything in their movement, who first went down the power to abolish piece work, despite
of their own; pit 65 years ago and still stoes down the fact that many three or four tjows a week when-people would object. ever he thinks there is any danger. AB the accidents of the past few He told his comrades that he had years were due to piece work, which investigated, 40 explosions and had created an atmosphere conditie:ve to actually been in three.
faccidents.
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This picture was taken in Naples, Italy, recently, when wounded Rallan Legionnaires brought home from Spain. They had been fighting with the Insurgent forces. With new complica- tions developing, it was expected Italy might send more troops and supplies to Spain.
Wandsworth
The mad rush to quality for good! Mothers Say wages
and bonuses got the meni fighting one against the other until:
He did not tell them that he was Bere was an entire absence of com- one of the fast to descend into the radeship. Gresford inferno.
Mr. J. Golightly (Northumberlarut) Mr. Smith was speaking on a Dur-intrafueed a touch of typical collier's ham resolution urging the executive humour into the tragle debate.
15 embark upon a new safety cam- paign.
called for the
He used to work with a Methodist who would not set up any timber but amendment of trusted to Providence.
the Coal Miner. Act. 11, so that the cost of inspections should bel pair by the State and that all de! puties should be employed by Government.
the
It also proposed to make over- time illegal and to limit roal pro- duction to five days a week.
that the week-ends can be entirely devoted to repairs and safety work. Mr. Smith said that in some places there was a coal face of a hundred yards on either side of the gate-the only way out if trouble arose,
It was absolutely wicked and uf- cidal, he sald. No face shouti more than 45 yards.
DEARER PIT
PROPS PERIL
be as pious as John Wesley." Mr. Golightly said, "but if a set no timber you are likely to be carried out.
"You can be as wicked as the devil, but if you set pir timber
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You can trust in Providence, but or two about babies." . . . The mothers agreed. Providence is a poor substitute pit props."
The resolution was carried unani- mounty.
WOMAN
KILLED IN
MENTAL HOME
A serious charge against the tim- ker merchants was made by Mr. W.
(Lanarkshire), Fearson that during the last month the price son
who said;
was delighted-she walked' round the room, playing with the children, rocking Harold in his duck. stroking another's head.
Queen Mary had just passed through. She had officially opened She Wandsworth's new municipal offices, and while the mayor was saying... "a day oustand- ing in importance to Wands- worth, a happy and fitting cul- mination of this memorable
A woman who was visiting her Coronation year" forty scream-
in Stafford County Mental ing young children were sliding.
of wood used for pit props had been Hospital, of which he is an inmate, and tumbling about the new was, it is alleged, attacked by himi increased by 100 per cent.
to and died from her Injuries.
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That, he said, would lead more accidents, as it would force! the managements to cromomise in the use of wood.
She was Mrs. Louisa Ann Rowley, aged 63, and it is stated that her 200 William James Rowley, aged 31. The suggestion that there should be struck her with a piece of planking
National Safety Week, duriff while she was talking to him. which the mines can be thoroughly inspected, was put forward by Mr. The same night she died in hospital, R. Pigford (Durham), working Rowley has been an inmate of the
mental hospital since 1934. miner.
playroom, just fifty yards away. When Queen Mary walked through to "open" the infant welfare de- Sitw
them pushing} partment she each other down in the play pen, rocking furiously across the room in- a wooden, duck, screaming for their tva. It was open.
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INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
High Pressure and Lost Skill
BOYS' CONTEMPT
OF DANGER
"A rising toll of death and injury must all be regarded as a penalty to When she went to shake hands he paid for increased prosperity." with Michael in the play pen he; grabbed her finger and wanted to
This is the view of Mr. D. R. Wat- put it in his mouth, and as she son, Chief Inspector of Factories 'in turned to go in the kitchen a two-his annual report issued recently. year-old rehearsing walking fell "Increased productions accompanied with her clammy fingers on Queen
oyster Mary's
doesn't matter"
ult
"It by expansion in means of production, dress. and she set and in particular by... new ma-
chinery and plant."
the chld on Ils feet again.
Then a baby began to cry, and she The total number of accidents re- went over and said to the mother, ported in 1930 was 170,300, of which "Teeth?" and the mother nodded and the baby howled.
PLAYED IN CLINIC
020 were fatal. The Ogures for 1935 were 140,008 and 843. There, were 851 fatal accidents to men and 127,- In the sunny clinic she played with 480 non-fatal, 17 women were killed children and talked to the and 15,543 injured. Forty-eight mothers. Her questions pleased the
them
she asked about ages and boys and four girls were killed, the weights, diets and dress, and the non-fatal figures being 24,251 and
8,107 respectively, dmculties of keeping them quiet at home.: "She, kaows children," they said,
As she went out she turned to the women and said: "I think the nicest thing about your new riiulej ly the babies."
Gateshead showed the highest pe ident increase, being 50 per cent.
TAKING RISKS
Some factors influencing the Inci- dence of accidents were the speeding Outside there was a solid wedkeup of processes, increased mechanisa- people and 50,000 children to tion in order to cheapen production
of greet her.
Most unusual for Queen Mary she arrived fifteen minutes late, That WAS because people burst through into the road and held up the royal car,
The Queen's own standard fluttered from the building.
Frauds by Colonel's
to meet foreign competition, and the considerable influx into industry, of persons who, by reason of long in- activity had lost, temporarily, some of their aidil and alertness, while others endeavoured to make good by taking risks or making efforts beyond their capacity.
As instances of avoidable accidents, the Inspector states that 15 per cent. of the total in the woollen and worst- ed industry were caused through cleaning machinery in motion. "An enormous number" of trivial acci- dents in all kinds of industry were made worse by the avoidance of first
Adopted Sond treatment to obviale sepsis.
"Nothing," he adds, "seems to The adopted son of a distinguished overcome wholly the British workers' and wealthy colonel in South Africa dislike of what he considers timidity: pleaded guilty of the Old Balley re or fussiness. The old school accepts cently to forgery and fraud, and
following a statement by his counsel industrial risits as inevitable, while that it was the devout wish of his with boys a contempt for danger is people that he be sent back to them part of their heritage." sentence was postponed until Wed-
Comparing 1924, with 1934, years nesday.
employment Ogures Richard James Donaldson, aged 19, in which the
identical, there were was accused of forging and uttering were almost for £81, £202, and £400, and nevertheless in 1934 20 per cent,
two fewer
confirms obtaining £286 by means of
accidents, "This forged cheques,
what I have always believed," the The Recorder, Sir Holman Greg-Inspector slates, "that the risk of ac- ory, K.C., said that a surety for eldent has been fending to decrease.” Donaldson might attend on Wednes
day.
HORSE, CAR, RING
Mr. John Maude, prosecuting said that Donaldson's adopted father had
The Inspector quotes what is pos-' elbly the earliest recorded reference to a juvenile industrial accident, of about 1540:
a firm in Chapel-street, in the City, "A yonge childe... standinge
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and when Donaldson came to Eng-j neere to the whele of a horse my!l land with the intention of Joining
... Wag by some myshop came" the R.A.F. Colonel Donaldson
within the swepe or compasso of the commended him to the firm's care,
coggo whele, and therewith wha The forgeries were committed on torne in peces and killed. And, up-
bough!
the firm's cheque forms, and with the proceeds Donaldson had horse, a car, and a diamond ring.
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on inquisition taken, it was founde that the whele was the cause of the
In a statement Donaldson said: "I childes dethe, whereupon the myll
come
was only when I was trying to cash the third cheque that realise how I had disgraced the name of my parents, who have been
was forthwith defaced and pulled | downe,"
A remedy, the Inspector suggests, kind to me all these years. Since I which might now be regarded as too have been in gaol I have got slept at radical and uneconomic. He sug“, night because my mother is a young gests the alternative of educating woman no longer and this news would kill her.
the employer.
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