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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 re- NOTE HOW, IN SPITE OF ALL presents a hundred deaths; cach ambulance ten thousand injured. SAFETY - FIRST PROPAGANDA, THE COFFINS AND AMBULANCES MULTIPLY WHEN EMPLOYMENT GOES UP

THE jobs that are 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

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

puts it. workpeople. Fewer than 1,000

The next mines report may or may not show a similar increase

were killed in all other indus- trial occupations.

Thongkong Telegraph. ended at the beginning of last

WasĘDAY, AUGUST 25, 1937.

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."

By the end of the Middle in deaths and injuries: it de- Every three hourg, 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 that more major pít disasters.

That economics.

horse-mill

The last report indicated that year, a man woman, youth or must have been at least as im-

we now require one man to die portant girl was killed at work.

to the sixteenth-cen-

"Accident after accident for every 330,000 tons of coal we tury community as an average get.

occurs which by the exercise One in a thousand CAI-

of a little thought or better modern factory is to the pre-ployees was being killed in Bri- supervision by the manage- AMERICA AND THE The total number of work- sent community.

tish mines and quarries last year,

ment could have been avoid- ed." They closed it down, and The year before one in 909 was FAR EAST CRISIS

people killed in this 10-year

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

And what everybody anys is: The appeal by Mr. Cordell population of Canterbury, or every other employer in the

The remedy is in the "education" of employers and employees. Hall, United States Secretary of Deal; greater than the com- locality into the perception that

If you are told after the end

With this blinding glimpse of State, to China and Japan to bined population of Durham if he wanted to go on earning

profits he had better not let of this

year that fifty

fewer the obvious most of the authori "refrain from resorting to war" and Ely.

his machinery kill a child. deaths have occurred in the two ties appear to be content. They foremost death-dealing occupa- do not often say how education in the settlement of their differ-

tions that factory fatalities in can be made effective. And it 1937 have been 870 instead of is by now permissible to doubt ences, 'is couched in cautious

We, enlightened descendants 920, mines fatalities 815 instead whether propaganda posters and diplomatic language. Actually,

that a great proportion of these of the horse-mill age, prefer to of 865-Will you feel any int- lectures can be, after all, what is of course, a state of undeclared working people need not have pursue a less radical but more pulse to cheer?

meant by education. If educa- tion means anything it must war now exists between the two died-would not have died if economic course. We have ad- You might if you could be as- nations, with Japan the instiga- they, or those responsible for mirable institutions for teach- sured that all these deaths were mean that the interests concern- tor thereof. Mr. Hull concedes their safety, had had the sense ing safety-first in mines, fac inevitable, that unless all these ed have to be taught a lesson. that the present situation in the to take precautions they knew tories, ships and railways. not have coal, or cotton, or collar-

A death-roll like this is bad enough in itself. What makes it infinitely more sickening is

Far East is the concern of all they ought to take. nations, since it is the outcome

This proportion of the 25,800 of failure to recognise principles j

workpeople killed at their jobs of international law which have between 1925 and 1935 died be- been accepted by most countries of the world.

of

the

cause human life is held too

workpeople had died we could

We print pamphlets and de- studs. But nobody can convince liver lectures, and unleash what you of that.

is called propaganda in favour of On the contrary, the factories We get the figures for deaths in things! the preservation of human life. inspectors go on saying these

Atten-chenply; because this civilisi industry to come down a little tion is drawn in particular to the age is not civilised enough yet provisions of the Kellogg Pact to understand that the least and the Nine-Power Treaty. of human life is worth more than which both China and Japan are the greatest machine.

each year-

Until the country suddenly be- comes more prosperous (that is, until there are only about 1,260,- 000 insured people who want

signatories. Judgment is not Not widely quoted in recent work and cannot get it). The

passed on the merits of the quar-newspapers was a passage in death rate in industry, then, as rel, although, reading between the Factories and Workshop ins- appears from the latest factories the lines, the appeal is obviously pectors' report setting forth the report, begins to go sharply up

directed more la Japan than to China. The Kellogg Pact rules:

instrument out war as an

of

earliest known record of un industrial accident to a young

again.

"A rising tide of death and in-

the penalty to be paid for in- national policy, whilst the Nine-person (it happened in 1540): Jury must still be regarded us

come

D

It seems equally clear that the lesson to be taught is that em- ployers who sacrifice lives in the interests of bigger profits must be recognised and classified as

"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. Living on immoral earnings to the last."

and attempted suicide are both indictable offences in this coun-

"In the woollen and worst- ed industry 16 per cent, of the try. You may be pardoned if total accidents were caused you wonder, at this stage of civilisation, why the parallel through cleaning machinery

crimes of profit-earning 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

and ordinary care

fore- be too radical or uneconomic to thought."

THE FORBIDDEN

punish.

WALTZ

"A yonge childe sland- inge neere to the whele of a horse myll was by some myshap

within the the Awepe 01 compass, of Cogge whele and therewith was torn in pieces and killed.

More tears were choked back in And, upon inquisition taken,

Austrian, dom from Spain. The Chileans made | SCHUSCHNIGG'S

mouth- Government has just forbidden it their marching song then and have Flanders Fields when the it was founde that the whele

organ played "Broken Doli" than Vienna to waltz, polka or one-step to made it their National Anthem now. was the cause of the childe's the tunes of military marches. It A German children's round dance

when the druns and ffes struck up death, whereupon the myll disrespectful to the marches, the wine, "O Christmas tree, O Christ- was forthwith defaced and say, and an insult to their fine asso-

mas tree, thy needles are so fair to: see," has passed as the Red Flog Saraband," pulled downe."

Dancers never were over-concerned into the anthem of the British Lu-French gallant, das with the solemi associations of their bour movement after a brief and would take an intolerable prig to ask splendid spell us the hymn of the lo die to the notes of the Marseillaise. Dr. Schuschniga need only compare dance tunes.

rebel American State of Maryland.

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. whilst China wants nothing bet- ter than respect for the pro- visions of

Nine - Power the Treaty. It is precisely because that latter treaty is being violat- ed by Japan that China is com- pelled to defend her independ- ence. Mr. Hull made reference,

The Chief Inspector's com- in his appeal, to the statement which he made in July outliningment was: "This remedy might the principles on which the now be regarded as too radical United States' foreign policy is and uneconomic, but it suggests based. In that utterance, which the alternative to educating the was obviously made with the Far employer." Eastern situation in view, Mr.

ciations.

The steps from which all our the sixteenth century France to

notes of the Psalms of David.

the slow

the British Grenadiers."

"I wish to die to the notes of a sat the 90-year-old Yuctaux. 11

A dance measure written two hun-the story of two tunes composed in Vicann. The Radetzky dred years ago by Mozart in his Mar-his native

March was

Johann composed by A hundred years later Cromwell's riage of Figaro is now

Strauss the elder to celebrate a vic- ormies, less put off than one might march of the Brigade of Guards.

tory over the Italiung in 1849, expect by their frivolous associa-

All the best songs of the last war; Bons, marched into battle to them.

came to the trenches off the dance The big song of the American de-floor. Hull said he favoured peaceful of China, and it is this circum-pression, "Brother, can you spare a

"Tipperary," "Pack up your trou

But Vienna has long forgotten that negotiation of disputes and faith-stance which has caused her to, dime," meant to recall the most paig-

nant slump associations, turned into bles" and the American "Over there"

began frivolously as foxtrots. Now and it was this tune's popularity ne ful observance of international forfeit the sympathy of the a hot jazz number.

they rouse associations as nolemn one-step that just led up to the gen- On the other hand, dance tunes and moving us any march that ever eral ban on march music in the ball- obligations, coupled with respect whole world. With the facts us

often acquire a more solemn back-came out of Austris. by all nations for the rights of they are, however, the time has ground than any

march. A polka "Dixic" was

Even "Rule Britannia "began, like)

The Blue Danube Waltz was writ- the marching! called others. At the time, thin de-arrived for something more do- song of the American Confederate "Keep the home fires burting in

ten by Johang Strauss the younger. claration was interpreted as a finite and pointed by foreign ormies. It never has been played Pantomime,

It was written for no particular occa- since the Civil War without recall-

Frivolous and solemn, tragic and ston. But there are few people in warning to Japan in her dealings spokesmon than a uniform appealing the shattered glories of the old convivial associations are not easily any part of the world in whom it parted from each other. Is "The does not arouse a treasured memory. with China. The latest reitera- to both sides. Japan in the South.

giri I left behind me" to be remem-

There are still fewer who would bered as the tune to which the men tion of that policy shows that guilty party, not China, and she

marched Waterloo on the morn-recognise the Radetzky March if they the American attitude remains should be plainly warned that

Some Irish volunteers took a jiging of June 18, 1815, or as the quad-heard it. unchanged. Japan is, without this is the view which other tune, St. Patrick's Day, to the South rille to which they danced at the American armies which, a hundred Duchess of Richmond's ball on the question, impinging on the rights nations take of her actions.

years ago, were fighting for tree-night of June 17,

.

room.

George Edinger

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