The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-12
Awful Loss of Life Every Year
Among Workmen in Great
Industries.
WHAT A NEW YORK
BANKER POLITICIAN SAYS
Government Industrial Insur-
ance Will BE Next Important
Feature i'm This Country.
BY RALPH JOHN SON.
osed Wire TO The Tribune.

| BY Leased Wire 10 The TIlDuno.
NEW YORK, Dec. IL" Govern
ment industrial insurance will be the
next important feature for our coun-
try TO adopt said prominent New
York bankcr.poIitician TO me today.
''This is important, continued he,
"not merely as palliative of indivi-
dual suffering. but principally rs de.
| terrent of the useless killing OF WORK
ingmen. If the community is made to
! feel that il must pay for the waste
of life. that waste will be reduced 10
Il minimum. ! talked this subject over
at considerable length with 4 very en-
| thusiastic friend, who spent his sum
mcr vacation in Europe, dcvoting the
! time 10 studying the people and busl-
! ness conditions.
Il took good deal of pains to look
! winch 'hc Gcr'nar
| people are cared for. > said he, ''and
| | came TO tire conclusion that there is
no good reason why VIC should permit
| oyer.industrial slaughter The German
emperor announced the other day IN
! his speech from the throne AT the open
/ ing of parliament, that plans have been
drawn up TO institute insurance ON The
lives of worlingmcu. For years the
! German laborcr has been protected
| q - r
through system of industrial iusur-
ancc under control of the government.
| The system is now TO he extended and
the principle is 70 be applied 10 life
insurance among the same classes.
Life Is Rated Low.
He went on to speak Of the great
! loss of life in the great steel aud IRON
! industries, on the railroads. in the fac.
tories and mills of the country. 'ln
! the mining districts. the quarrics, ana
in all our industrial cenicrs, life is
rated AT SO low a price that every year
! from these localities come great IN
crcases in loss of human life. - he went
on. Something must be done. The
western people are talking about this
| phase OF American life and on a recent
trip | made to a bankers convention
| | found the men from the Pacific
coast ready TO support a measure simi'
| lar 10 the industrial insurance the Ger.
man government is encouraging. Our
! great business corporations arc wide
! awake 20 this rapidly increasing loss
| of life. and the officials feel That the
! only way TO curb il is 10 get the peu-
| pie interested in il.
! FOf course, ! know under present
conditions in rho United States. and
with our existing form OF federal gov
crnmcnt, il would he impossible TO put
into execution plans identical with
! those adopted in Germany for the con
scrvation Of the empire : greatest ma.
tional resources. Every minute Of
every working day i'm The wear some
! American man. woman or child L. killed
Ior injured an the pursuit of lawful cul-
ploymcnt. DO YOU know that it is said
the cheapest raw material which
enters into the industrial output Of the
! United States is human flesh and blood.
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most eNhaustless supply Of coal and
iron ores2 -
Loss Of Life Appalling.
The census bureau has gathered
statistics which show that 100000
persons are killed annually while at
work. This takes no account Of the
thousands who are manned many of
whom are left helpless burdens on the
community. 1t is estimated that 800.
600 working men are killed and
manned annually IN this country. The
number of men killed during the Rus.
sia-Japancse war was but $4,000. In
two DAYS killings IN the workshops are
greater than during the Spanish Amcri
can war. This means an annual loss
of over S300u00,0 900 Tho mania fUr
speed here is great. and the desire ioJ
gold Is 50 oycIpowcring that life IL
held at low price
Attcr years Of effort TO put into
effective operation national cm
Uloyecs liability law, said the
banker, "thc best that has been got
past the courts has been an cmascu
lated act which n recent decision per
mits TO he applied in the territories
aud the District Of Columbia Tho rest
of the country is surely dependent on
the haphazzard state legislation and
whatever corporations arc forced 90 d,
IN small way by public sentiment
Our lahoring people surely are worthy
lUf little more attention of congress.