THE TOLL OF INDUSTRY.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 50, 23 February 1912, Page 1

THE TOLL OF INDUSTRY.

(The above sketch is an accurate pnihnyal of the annual toll of industry.) Tho recent disasters in factory, mill, and mine servo, to remind us of the tra«ic toll of industry. Dunn- the v. v.- l!Hl>, 3-lfJ. persons werekilled and 3,!>,----902 wore disabled whilst at work. T':i< means: that if a pro'Wiun were ionn«( of tho victims of industry, it would Mi etch. -Wl miles with a corpse every twen y T'lnN Between each corpse 10(1 disabled workpeoj)le would bo marshalled, marchhe fi'vfl abreast; and if the widows and orphans followed in tho procession it would then be 45V miles lons, in e« r h humlred disabled work people, would 1)0 approximately' 45 miners, 4t factory workers, and U persons from the following occupations: ilailwaymen, seamen, dockers, minrrymen, and tbnse employed on works of construction. The most serious thing is that the mini her of killed and injured is increasing. [From " Lnlior Lender."