HEAVY CASUALTIES
IN UNITED STATES COAL MINES. ENFORCEMENT OF SAFETY REGULATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, July 7. Full compliance with statutory requirements for the protection of miners has been ordered by Mr H. L. Ickes, in his capacity as coal mines administrator. He pointed out that since Pearl Harbour more men have been killed and injured in coal mines in the United States than have been killed, wounded, or missing in all branches of America s armed forces. A total of 1480 men were killed and 70,500 injured in coal mines in 1942. The safety provisions are expected to facilitate production and to make up the loss due to strikes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1943, Page 3
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112HEAVY CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1943, Page 3
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