Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-11

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trial Conditions recently held In Phil,
adelphia aud the Exposition of Indus.
trial Hygiene and Safety Devices XIV.
en In New York In January hy The
American institute Ut Social Scr.
vice.
Sweat Shop Horrors.
Perhaps the nos interesting exhi-
bt'ion to the general public. since IL
most directly affects the public health
aud welfare. II that Of sweat shou
horrors, In bare. filthy. saualla
rooms. the very air breeding pesti.
hence. tho workers of the sweated In,
dnstries are shown, Old men and wo.
men. little children are TO be seen.
engaged In occupations which destroy
their vitality and shorten their lives,
working long hours for a meager pit,
lance by which. with pitiful economy.
they are enabled to drag out their
miserable existence. Most Of these
are engaged In the clothing Industry.
IN" average wage being from 81 10 50
"A week. Basement bakeries, where
bread and pastry are made under the
worst possible conditions. are also re.
produced and the exhibition In sniff.
Client to turn the stomach and sieken
the heart OF the most hardened Never
before have the conditions surround.
Ing these workers of the underground
dens of industry been 80 faithfully
depicted and the revelation Ia expect,
ed to speedily result In a widespread
public demand for their am~eiioration.
Americas Blood Tax.
Statistics are usually dry and unin.
teresting. but those compiled by the
promoters OF the industrial exposition
emphasizing with terrible detail the
nations blood tax. are not In this cat.
egory. These figures show that In
all lines of industry In America from
three to twenty times al many work.
men are killed and injured az there
are among a similar number of work.
men engaged In similar industries In
England and on the continent. Every
year a half million American work
men are sacrificed-more than twice
the number Of men killed during the
ICtvil War. the blooliest conflict In all
history.
On the railroads of the country
alone twenty six employees arc killed
and @37 are injured every day In the
year~~a total OF nearly 10000 killed
and 10000 injured during the mast
year. The comparison bet tween the
number of workmen and passengers
Killed on the railroads In startling
me fig'lres show that one out of
every $40 of the railroad EMPLOYEES
OF the United States In killed an, one
out OF every twenty-eight Is injured
every year. while among the passen.
gers only one out of every million
ana a half Is killed. and these are
mainly among the poorer classes who
are forced to ride in chair cars. In
England only one-hfth as many rail.
road employees are killed as in the
United States, according to the mum,
DER of men engaged, while In Germany
and other continental countries the
percentage Is even smaller.
man-kiiting Machinery.
Caught In the machinery" Ia the
"saai cause assigned in factory cas-.
"ai'ies, and In nearly every case IL
Is the correct one. The death.dea,.
ing instruments of warfare, the man.
eating tigers Of the jungles, the raw.
ehons sharks of the deep seas-these
are mere playthings compared with
the whirring machinery of the ma.
''ohs factories. Nearly a quarter of
ii million men are annually killed and
NAMED In the factories Of the United
states and 1t Is claimed nearly
all could have been saved by the use
OF safety devices. According to these
hsures' a greater hero than the man
VINO goes to war Is the factory work.
err risking his life a dozen times
"here the soldier risks death once.
The miner Is another laborer who
races appalling odds and daily firts
with death, In the fifteen states of
the union where records are kent Of
mine casualties. nearly 10000 miners