Coal Mining.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 57, 12 April 1912, Page 9

Coal Mining.

HORRORS OF THE INDUSTRY.

There is hardl> a paper of plutocracy which lias not auucalcd at and denounced the strike of coal minors, both in Gre-at Britain and the United States. Instead of devoting attention to the justice of the workers' demands, or even intelligently submitting those demands for the perusal of readers, mimn tf matter are written of the possible lose to the /•mnpanies in the ©vent of the miners' requests being conceded. Probable loss to the employers —a loss, by the way, which is but a myth—is a matter of grave oflMoern to newspapordom; the loss the toilers have and will sustain is not worth mentioning or consiciering. But the workers have lost ; and lost heavily. They-have paid the toll, not in the vraj of lessened dividends, but by death. £ upended are but a few of the more gruesome mine horrors of the past 10 years:— Date. Pla-ce. Dead 190'J—Fratcrrille, Term, U.5.A.... 200 1902.—Johnstown, Pa., U.S.A. ... 112 1903.—Hanna, Wyo., U.S.A. ... 200 1904.—Hanwieh, Pa., U.S.A. ... 189 1905.— Virgil City, Ala., U.S.A. 152 MOO.—Pas de Calais, France ... 1000 1906.—Fairmouut, W. Va., U.S.A. 100 1906.— Canatiea, Mexico 100 1907.—Scarbrick, Prussia 200 1907.—Tokio, Japan 470 1007. —Los Esperangas, Mox 123 1907.—Monongoh, W. Va., U.S.A. 398 1007.—Jacob Creek, Pa., U.S.A. 250 1907.—Darr Mine, Pa., U.S.A. ... 200 1908.—Hatim, Germany 339 1908.—Redan, Prussia 150 1903.— Marinnna, Pa., U.S.A. ... 125 1908.—Chihuahua, Mexico 100 1908.— Peking., China 112 1909.—Cherry, 111., U.S.A 285 1910—Whitehaven, Eng., approx. 150 1910 -Palos, Ala., U.S.A 145 1910. -Manchester, England 341 I.9lo.—Maypole, Eng., approx. ... 200 1911.—Throop, Pa., U.S.A 75 191.1.— Littleton, Ala., U.S.A. ... 120 1911.—Rriopvillc, Term., U.5.A.... 119 1912—Oklahoma, U.S.A 68 1912.—Welch, W. Va., U.S.A. ... 80 But there has not been a capitalist, not one, whoso life was lost in the nervc-shattoring game of dividenddrawing.