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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1937,

TEN YEARS' TALE OF WORKPEOPLE KILLED IN FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS IN BRITAIN, The men and fractions of men represent millions and fractions of millions employed; each coffin ra- presents a hundred deaths; each ambulance ten thousand injured. NOTE HOW, IN SPITE OF ALL SAFETY - FIRST PROPAGANDA, THE COFFINS AND AMBULANCES MULTIPLY WHEN EMPLOYMENT GOES UP

THE

jobs that

are

T killing off British

workpeople

in the

greatest numbers are those in mines, factories, ships and railways.

This is not to say that these are the four most dangerous kinds of work in the country: only that, be- cause so many people get a living from them, they are returning the highest totals of industrial deaths.

LIFE IS

CHEAP

By Robert Waithman

The last report indicated that we now require one man to die

In the ten years between the

It suggests, more accurately, creased prosperity" is the way end of 1925 and the end of 1935 what might be the alternative. the Chief Inspector of Factories

puts it. these four jobs killed 24,877 But it is not: not yet.

The next mines report may or workpeople. Fewer than 1,000

may not show a similar increase were killed in all other indus-

By the end of the Middle in deaths and injuries: it de- trial occupations,

Every three hours, night and Ages the people in Britain knew pends largely on whether we can day, during the ten years that enough to place the life of a get through the year without

child on a higher plane than more major pit disasters. ended at the beginning of last economica. That horse-mill year, a man, woman, youth or must have been at least as im- girl was killed at work.

portant to the sixteenth-cen- for every 330,000 tons of coal we tury community as an average

One in a thousand modern factory is to the pre- ployees was being killed in Bri- of work- sent community.

tish mines and quarries last year. The total number people killed in this 10-year They closed it down, and The year before one in 909 was

"educated" being killed. cycle is greater than the entire thereby doubtless

other employer in the population of Canterbury, or every Deal; greater than the com- locality into the perception that profits he had better not let his machinery kill a child.

bined population of Durham if he wanted to go on earning

and Ely.

get.

em.

And mines inspectors this:

"More than half of the ac- cidents could have been avoid- ed had ordinary care and pre- caution been exercised by everyone concerned." \

"Many of these falls of ground would not have occur- red if proper attention were paid to the simple require ments

of the Explosives in Coal Mines Order."

"Accident after accident occurs which by the exercise of a little thought or better supervision by the manage- ment could have been avoid-

ed."

And what everybody says is: The remedy is in the "education" of employers and employees. If you are told after the end

With this blinding glimpse of AMERICA AND THE

of this year that fifty fewer the obvious most of the authori FAR EAST CRISIS

deaths have occurred in the two ties appear to be content. They foremost death-dealing occupa- do not often say how education. A death-roll-like this is bad

tions that factory fatalities in can be made effective. And it The appeal by Mr. Cordell }

enough in itself. What makes it

1937 have been 870 instead of is by now permissible to doubt Hull, United States Secretary of]

infinitely more sickening is

We, enlightened descendants 920, mines fatalities 815 instead whether propaganda posters and State, to China and Japan to that a great proportion of these of the horse-mill age, prefer to of 865-will you feel any im- lectures can be, after all, what is meant by education. If educa- "refrain from resorting to war" working people need not have pursue a less radical but more pulse to cheer?

tion means anything it must died if economic course. We have ad.

You might if you could be as- in the settlement of their differ-died-would not have

mirable institutions for teach- sured that all these deaths were mean that the interests concern- ences. is couched in cautious they, or those responsible diplomatic language. Actually, their safety, had had the sense ing safety-first in mines, fac- inevitable, that unless all these ed have to be taught a lesson.

workpeople had died we could tories, ships and railways.

not have coal, or cotton, or collar- of course, a state of undeclared to take precautions they knew

We print pamphlets and de- studs. But nobody can convince war now exists between the two they ought to take.

liver lectures, and unleash what you of that. nations, with Japan the instiga- This proportion of the 25,800 is called propaganda in favour of On the contrary, the factories players who sacrifice lives in the tor thereof. Mr. Hull concedes workpeople killed at their jobs the preservation of human life. inspectors go on saying these interests of bigger profits must that the present situation in the between 1925 and 1935 died be- We get the figures for deaths in Far East is the concern of all cause human life is held too industry to come down a little nations, since it is the outcome cheaply; because this civilised each year-

for

•

of failure to recognise principles age is not civilised enough yet

Until the country suddenly be- that the

least comes more prosperous (that is, of international law which have to understand been accepted by most of the human life is worth more than until there are only about 1,250,- want .000 insured people who Atten- the greatest machine. countries of the world.

work and cannot get it). The tion is drawn in particular to the Not widely quoted in recent

death rate in industry, then, as provisions of the Kellogg Pact newspapers was

a passage in

appears from the latest faclorica and the Nine-Power Treaty, of the Factories and Workshop ins- report, begins to go sharply up which both China and Japan are pectors' report setting forth the again.

"A yonge childe... stand- inge neere to the whele of a horse myil... was by some myshap come within the the compass of swepe .or cogge whele and therewith was torn in pieces and killed. And, upon inquisition taken,

It seems equally clear that the lesson to be taught is that em-

be recognised and classified as things:

"The conclusion is inevitable criminals, and that workmen who take dangerous risks they that too often immediate pro- duction is the main if not the could avoid must be denounced only consideration, with the as half-wits. result that safeguarding is left to the last."

Living on immoral earnings and attempted suicide are both "In the woollen and worst- indictable offences in this coun- ed industry 15 per cent, of the try. You may be pardoned if you wonder, at this stage of total accidents were caused

civilisation, why the parallel through cleaning machinery crimes of profit-carning at the in motion."

risk of employes' safety and de- "It is appalling to notice the liberated negligence which en- number of accidents which dangers life continue to be re- could have been avoided by garded as evils which it would ordinary care and fore- be too radical or uneconomic to thought."

punish.

THE FORBIDDEN WALTZ

DR..

SCHUSCHNIGG'S Austrian¦dom from Spain. The Chileans mude j More tears were choked back_jr Government has just forbidden it their marching song then and have Flanders Fields when the mouth- organ played "Broken Doll" then it was founde that the whele Vienna to waltz, polka or one-step to made it their National Anthem now.

signatories. Judgment is not curliest known record of an "A rising tide of death and in- passed on the merits of the quar-industrial accident to a young jury must still be regarded as rel, although, reading between person (it happened in 1640): the penalty to be paid for in- the lines, the appeal is obviously directed more to Japan than to. China. The Kellogg Pact rules out war as an instrument of national policy, whilst the Nine- Power Treaty guarantees the integrity of China. No-one can say that China, in resisting Japanese aggression, is guilty of breach of the Kellogg Pact,

A German children's round dance when the drums and fites struck up whilst China wants nothing bet-

was the cause of the childe's the tunes of military marches. It is disrespectful to the marches, they ter than respect for the pro- denth, whereupon the myll say, and an insult to their fine asso- tune, "O Christmas tree, O Christ- the "British Grenadiers."

"I wish to die to the notes of a mas tree, thy needles are so fair to visions of the Nine - Power

soid the 00-year-old was forthwith defaced and clations.

sce," has passed as the Red Flag Saraband,"

Yuciaux. It Treaty. It is precisely because

Duncers never were over-concerned into the anthem of the British La- French gallant, des pulled downe." that latter treaty is being violat-

with the solemn associations of their bour movement after a brief and would take an intolerable prig to ank The Chief Inspector's com- dance tunes. ed by Japan that China is com-

splendid spell, as the hymn of the to die to the notes of the Marseillaise. The steps from which all our rebel American State of Maryland. Dr. Schuschnigg need only compare pelled to defend her independ-ment was: "This remedy might

A dance measure written two hun- the story of two tunes composed in ence, Mr. Hull made reference, now be regarded as too radical sixteenth

Vienna. The Radetzky dred years ago by Mozart in his Mar- his native in his appeal, to the statement and uneconomic, but it suggests!

Figaro is now the slow March was

Jobann composed by Strauss the elder to celebrate a vic- which he made in July outlining the alternative to educating the armies, less put off than one might march of the Brigade of Guards. the principles on which the United States' foreign policy is based. In that utterance, which

employer."

to the

century France notes of the Psalms of David.

A hundred years ter Cromwell's ringe of

room.

frivolous associa- expect by their

All the best songs of the last war tory over the Italians in 1849, tions, marched into battle to them.

came to the trenches off the dance' The big song of the American de- floor. was obviously made with the Far of China, and it is this eircum- pression, "Brother, can you spare a "Tipperary," "Pack up your trou-

But Vienna has long forgotten that dime," meant to recall the most polg bles" and the American "Over there" Eastern situation in view, Mr. stance which has caused her to, nant slump associations, turned into began frivolously as foxtrots. Now and it was this tune's popularity as a Hull said he favoured peaceful forfeit the sympathy of the a hot jazz number.

they rouse associations a solemn one-step that just led up to the gen- negotiation of disputes and faith-

On the other hand, dance tunes and moving as any march that ever cral ban on march musle in the ball- whole world. With the facts as often acquire a more solemn back came out of Austria, ful observance of international

march. A polka

Evon "Rule Britannia "began, like The Blue Danube Waltz was writ- obligations, coupled with respect they are, however, the time has ground than any

called "Dixic" waя the marching by all nations for the rights of arrived for something more de- song of the American Confederate "Keep the home fires burning," in ten by Johanu Strauss the younger.

pantomimo,

It was written for no particular occa- others. At the time, this de- finite and pointed by foreign armies. It never has been played

since the Civil War without recall- Frivolous and solemn, tragle and ion. But there are few people in claration was interpreted as a spokesmen than a uniform appealing the shattered glories of the old convivial associations are not easily any part of the world in whom it

Scuth.

parted from each other. In "The deca not arouse a treasured memory............ warning to Japan in her dealings to both sides. Japan is the

girl I left behind me" to be remem- bered as the tune to which the men There are all fewer who would marched to Waterloo on the morn-recognise the Radetzky March if they Some Irish volunteers took a jiging of June 18, 1815, or as the qund-heard it.. tune, St. Patrick's Day, to the South rille to which they danced at the years ago, were fighting for free-night of June 17,

with China. The latest reitera-

tion of that policy shows that guilty party, not China, and sho the American attitude remains should be plainly warned that unchanged. Japan is, without this is the view which other question, impinging on the rights nations take of her actions,

American armies which, a hundred Duchess of Itichmond's ball on the George Edinger