The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-14
Over 100 Miners
Blown to Atoms!
But How Many Mules?
The Mule 10 More Of a Loss To the
Mine Owner Because When a
Mule Gets Killed He Has To
PAY for Another One.


OF course the more wormen buried the greater force Of
the explosion of the way before
& the the digging out of coal
These fatalities unfortunate because they IN
terrupt the operation and delay.
They therefore expensive
1t hoped may be thrown aside or
earted off that the will suffer little loss possible
bad times that it really necessary for the mine
the mine cleared of the dead cases
of explosions cave-ns before work can be resumed
And the question is presented:
Should mine be expected suffer financial loss
through the inactivity his plant for the sake giving
"A MINER burial1
And should weeping, waing wives and mothers and
daughters brothers and sisters be permitted to crowd
the opening the the who are working
speed order again for mining to
be resumed the coal the market and the money
for the coal in the pockets of the ownerse
faherless children must be admitted
nuisance around where there is work to be done
pitiul and sob make difference to
the mine-owners
That isn't it
The room they take up expedite getting things
running again
NEVER MIND THESE BROKEN HEARTS. BRING HAM
MERs AND NAILS AND BOARDS TO PATCH UP THIS
BROKEN SHAFT AND LET'S GET TO DIGGING COAL
AGAIN.
And you step one side little amp-eyed fellow.
away grow and get good and the little you
the bread has been taken from your mouth
through the death of your father
and work and do the best she can
your keep body for u.s.
when you big you come here and work and DC
o your father
That isn't exactly the BUT THAT Is
WHAT A LACK OF LAW IN THIS COUNTRY SAYS FOX
HIM
THAT is WHAT 1T SAID TO $4,000 FATHERLESS
BOYS IN THIS COUNTRY LAST YEAR-TO $4,000 BOYS
WHOSE FATHERS MET DEATH WHILE ENGAGED IN
WINNING BREAD.
The isn't shocked very by of hun
dred lives
expected should have expected
killed should have expected the horrible
fate they
There explosion this mine only two weeks ago.
Fifty killed by it
NO ONE WENT TO JAIL
hold the of the mine responsible
and who blown to pieces
nothing in the law make the owners OF this mine
stop lives oparzed in the accumulation OF their
dividends
There nothing bring the loss of those first
90 lives so foby upon mining to impress
upon necessity of preventing OF the disaster
through installation of ventatng system to carry on the
gases that form in mines.
WILL THERE EVER BE LAW TO BRING THE EN-
PLoYERS IN THIS, COUNTRY TO REALIZATION OF
THE VALUE OF A HUMAN LIFE AND TO MAKE THEM
SUFFER WHERE A HUMAN LIFE LOST COULD HAVE
BEEN SAVED THROUGH PROPER SAFEGUARDS AND
PRECAUTION7
Why do men work at such dangerous pursuts
sslves a
The is
TO LIVE;
To obtain food for their mouths babies
They have falling rock and
blown to pieces o STARVING to death
earth be of
somebody down in the earth for that
work therefore rendering vaua
BILE service their country in helping to develop it.
They their hands render this service.
Their country is very grateful to them
So grateful refuses compel those whose privilege is to
exploit the by selling that in the earth which put
for ALL of have SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE to
lives those who dependent
upon for their maintenance
sympathise with the mine the loss of several
mules in this explosion.
When mules killed in mine the mne-ownes have to buy
Others.
killed plenty others who hungry
enough take their places.
The loss of mule falls directly upon the
Consequently careful of their
than they of their miners.
will one II the
Also Ambiguous. u' lou' uIssns