The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-07-18
Ohio State Senator Voices Senti-
ment Of Miners in Advocating
Repeal Of Objectionable
Section
QUESTION WILL BE
VOTED ON AUGUST 5
Speaker Contends Proposed Change
in Method Of Mining is Injuri-
GUS to Workers and No
Benefit to Public

Speaking in behalf Of the miners
organization on the street Thursday
afternoon, State Senator William
Green Of Ohio, strongly opposed sec
tion IS Of the mining law, adopted by
the last legislature, and urged the
voters to repeal it at the speciSl cleo
tion that is to be held August s.
Mr.. Green is president pro tenn Of
the Ohio state senate, and fifteen
years Of his life were spent in the
coal mines Of Ohio as an actual miner.
He was introduced to his audience
tnre by B. B Barefoot.
The section Of the new law to which
the miners object Is as follows:
Section Eighteen.
Section is. The shooting Of coal
off the solid as herein provided. il
hereby declared to be unlawful In
the preparation Of every shot to be
fired In any slope, air course, cross
cut, entry, or room neck in any coal
mine in this state, the coal to be
shot down shall be cut to a
depth OF at least six inches greater
than the depth OF the hole in which
the explosive Is to be placed No shot
shall be fired BY amy person In any
slope, plane, cross-cut, entry, or room
neck in any coal mine in this state,
unless the coal has been first cut to a
depth Of at least six inches greater
than the depth Of the hole prepared
for the shot,
In the preparation Of the shots to
be fired in any room or rooms in any
coal mine in this state, no shot shall
be prepared or made where the block
Of coal sought to be removed is great.
er in width than the perpendicular
height OF the coal, and it shall be
one-half mined for the full length OF
the hole, and no person shall fire any
shot in any room in any coal mine in
this state until the same has been pre-
pared as above specified.
ANY person, firm, corporation Oh
association violating any provision OF
Section It's OF this Act shall be deemed
guilty Of a nisdemeanor and upon con
vlction shall be fined in the sum Of
not less than FIFTY js5o,0O0l Dollars
nor more than Two Hundred (S200.00l
Dollars, provided. this section shal
net heeome effective until July 81
1914
According to statement issued b.
the operators in support of this sec
ton, al present coal is mined by be
ing shot from the solid wall or YeiI
by heavy charges Of explosives; tn
result is that very large percentag
OF the coal is reduced to dust am
slack and the balance OF it is SO shat
tered by the explosion that it rapidl
disintegrates. thus reducing the qua
lty Of even the lump coal that is pre-
duced. The heavy explosives used frt
quently cause explosions in the mine
q resulting in appalling loss Of life an
: property
Q Senator Green dissents entirel
T from this view, taking the positio
that the change in the method OF nil
ing proposed by the new law will nc
J only be detriment to the miner, bg
win also fail to accomplish any {
g the beneficial effects claimed for it
! II take the stand that the legisl
= ture has blundered in attempting
= pass a law that was framed withos
an investigated Of conditions, an
without expert advice from minel
who work in the earth that mankir
might enjoy this great civilization
ours. Senator Green said 'sWhI
It would you think Of the legislatui
in passing law setting forth the mann
VI in which the farmer must prepare b
u ground? Or measure that w0u
It. specify how your wife must wash Il
ut dishes or scrub the floor9 It's t
i'd same in regard to this measure Il
u legislature which knows nothing abo
IN mining has acted hastily.
Y MY first objection to the prepos
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