THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
AUGUST 17, 1937.
COAL'S GRIM TOLL OF
Victims 4 Abreast For 30 Miles
-Mr. Herbert Smith
(By IAN MACKAY)
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.
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 Jones (North Wales) sald grand old veteran of the miners' they, should do everything in their movement, who first went down. the power to abolish piece work, despite pit 85 years ago and still goes down the fact that matiy of their -Own three or four times a week when people would object. ever he thinks there is any danger. All the necidents of the past few were due to piece work, which an atmosphere conducive to
He told his comrades that he had
investigated 40 explosions and had nctually been in three,
NEW SAFETY
CAMPAIGN
The mad rush to qualify for good wages and bonuses set the fighting one against the other until
He did not tell then that he was there was an entire absence one of the first to descend into the radeship. Gresford Inferno.
coin-
Me, J. Golightly (Northumberland)
Mr. Smith was speading on a Dur-introduced a touch of typical collier': hum resolution urging the executive humour into the tragic debate,
to cinbark upon a new safety cam- paign.
"You can be as plous as John Wesley," Mr. Golightly said, "but
He used to work with a Methodist who would not set up any timber but called for the amendment of trusted to Providence, the Coal Miners' Act, 1911, so that the cost of inspections should be! paid by the State and that all de- puties should be employed by the Government,
I also proposed to make over - time iflegal and to Umit coal pro- duction to five days a week,
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that the week-ends can be entirely
if you set no timber you are likely
to be carried out.
"You can be as wicked as the
deirit, but if you set your timber
WORKERS WOUNDED FROM
SPAIN BACK IN ITALY
were
This pleture was taken in Naples, Italy, recently, when wounded Italian Legionnaires brought home from Spain. They had been fighting with the insurgent' forces, With new complica-
tions developing, it was expected Italy might and more troops and supplies to Spain.
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A Thing Or Two About Babies"
Said Mrs. Raymond to
RISING TOLL OF
INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
a roomful of women and High Pressure and you will still come out to your wife babies in Wandsworth's new clinic: "She knows a thing "You can trust in Providence, but or two about babies."... The mothers agreed.
and küla,
devoted to repairs and wifely work. Providence is a poor substitute for
Mr. Smith said that in some places pit props.", there was a coal face of a hundred
only way out if trouble arose.
It was absolutely wicked and suf-
The resolution was carried unani-
yards on either side of the gate---the mously.
the WOMAN
KILLED IN
ciul, he sald. No face should
more than 15 yards.
DEARER PIT
PROPS PERIL
A serious charge against the m-MENTAL HOME
ber merchants was made by Mr. W.
Pearson
that during the last month the price son
of wood used for pit props had been Hospital of which he is an inmate, increased by 160 per cent.
was, its alleged, attacked by him That, he said, would lead to and died from her injuries. more accidents, as it would force
Queen Mary had just passed through.
She had officially operied She WES delighted-she walked round the room, playing with the Wandsworth's new municipal children, rocking; Harald in his duck, offices, and while the mayor stroking another's head. was saying... "a day oustand- ing in importance to Wands-- worth, a happy and fitting cul- mination of this memorable |
Lost Skill
BOYS' CONTEMPT
OF DANGER
"A rising toil of death and Injury must still be regarded as a penalty to be paid for increased prosperity."
When she went to shake hands with Michael in the play pen te grabbed her finger and wanted to This is the view of Mr. D. R. Wot- 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 feil "Increased productions accompanied with her clammy fingers on Queen by expansion in means of production,
milk
dress. "It and she set and in particular by.
chinery and plant."
(Lanarkshire), who said A woman who was visiting her Coronation year" forty scream-. County in Stafford
Mental ing young children were sliding Mary's oyster
doesn't matter" ... and tumbling about the new
the child on Its feet again. playroom, just fifty yards away.
Then a baby began to cry, and she When Queen Mary walked through went over and said to the mother;
welfare de- and the baby howled.
"Teeth?" and the mother naddedi The suggestion that there should be struck her with a piece of planking partment she saw
to "op"
them pushing National Safety Week, during
each other down in the play pen,; while she was talking to him. which the mines can he thoroughly! inspected, was put forward by Mr.j
rocking furiously across the room in R. Pigford (Durham),
wooden duck, screaming for their the * miner.
tem. It was open.
She was Mrs. Louisa Ann Rowley, the managements to economise in aged 83, and it is stated that her son,
William James Rowley, aged 31
the use of wood,
The same night she died in hospital, working Rawicy, has been an inmate of the
mental hospital since 1034.
The infant
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PLAYED IN CLINIC
new ma-
The total number of accidents re- ported in 1936 was 170,390, of which 920 were fatal. The Agures for 1035 were 140,696 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 ond talked to the and
15,543 injured. Forty-eight mothers, Her questions
pleased boys and four girls were killed, the them she asked about ages and non-fatal @gures being 24,251 and weights, diets and dress, and the
difficulties of keeping them quict at 0,107 respectively, home.: "She knows children," they
said.
Gateshead showed the highest nc-
TAKING RISKS
As she went out she turned to eldent increase, being 50 per cent. the women and said: "I think the nicest thing about your new clinic is the babies."
Some factors influencing the incl- dence of accidents were the speeding toup of processes, increased mechanisa- tion in order to cheapen production to meet foreign competition, and the Most unusual for Queen Mary considerable influx into ludustry, of -she arrived fifteen minutes late. į
Outside there was a solid wedge of people and 50.000 children greet her,
That was because people burst persons who, by reason of long in- through into the road and held up activity had lost, temporarily, some the royal car.
of their skill and alertness, while
The Queen's own standard others endeavoured to make good by fluttered from the building.
taking risks or making efforts beyond their capacity.
Frauds by Colonel's Adopted Son
Az 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 ald treatment to obviate sepals.
"Nothing," ho adds, "seems 10 The adopted son of a distinguished overcome wholly the British workers' and wealthy colonel in South Africa dislike of what he considers midity pleaded guilty at the Old Batley re-or fussiness. The old school accepts rently to forgery and fraud,” and
following a statement by his counsel industrial risks 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 unt!! Wed-! nesday.
Comparing 1924, with 1034, yours In which the employment figures
Richard James Donaldson, aged 19,)
were was accused of forging and uttering were almost identical, there for £84. £202, and £450, and nevertheless in 1034 20 Der cent. obtaining £200 by means of (wo fewer accidents. "This confirms forged cheques.
what I have always believed," the
The Recorder, Sir Holman Greg-Inspector states, "that the risk of uc- ory. K.C., said that a surety for eldent has been tending to decrease." | Donaldson might aftend on Wednes-
day.
HORSE, CAR, RING
The Inspector quotes what is pos- sibly the earliest recorded reference
to a juvenile industrial accident, of
Mr. John Maude, prosecuting sald that Donaldson's adopted father had about 1340:
In fem In Chapel-street, in the City, "A yonge childe.
.. standinge
and when Donaldson came to Eng-neere to the whele of a horse myli land with the intention of joining the R.A.F. Colonel
Donaldson
re-
... was by some myshap come
commended him to the firm's care. within the swepe or compasso of the The forgeries were committed on torne in peces and killed. And, up- cogge whele, and therewith was the firm's cheque forms, and with the proceeds Donaldson had bought a on inquisition taken, it was founde horse, a car, and a diamond ring. that the whole was the cause of "the In statement Donaldson said: "I childes dethe, whereupon the myli was only when I was trying to cash was forthwith defaced and pulled the third cheque that I came
to downe." realise how I had diagraced the
name of my parents, who liave been 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 not slept atradieni. and uneconomic. He sug night because my mother, is a youngests the alternative of educating woman no longer and this news would kill her,
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