Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-19
RosEBRook ACCUSED OF PRO-
NOTING PERSONAL INTER-
EsTs BY COMPLAINT.
TRYING TO MAKE IT APPEAR
THERE IS DISCRIMINATION
Board Of Control Awards Bulk Of Iowa
Contracts to Iowa opsrators-Many
Mine Owners Resent Rossbrooks Al
titude in View Of Faets-lntersstins
Events at AdeI.
Special to Times Republican.

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cured a larger share of the contracts
for supplying coal at Iowa institutions
than ever before, and that their COM
mittee looking after the matter ex-
pressed great satisfaction at the result
Of the bidding, one l.. r. Rosebrook.
connected with the Excelsior Mining
Company at Oskaloosa, is breaking into
the newspapers with frequency in an
effort to make it appear Iowa has been
discr minated against. 81
RoSebrook is a1candidate for Office of
some kind and It is declared by a repre-
sentative of the operators here that
what hei is doing Is only. fol. political eff
feet. -~&rls
Last summer q committee OF the
operators held a conference with mem
bers of the present board Of control and
suggested some changes in the specifi-
cations for coal that would remove
. what appeared to be Determinations
{ that had been engrafted long ago. The
board assented to the changes at once.
These related to the size or character Of
the screens used. 1t was agreed that
when these changes were made the
competition with those of any other
state.
AS a result Of the changes made the
Iowa operators did get the bulk of the
business and will sell to Iowa institu-
tons many thousands of tons of coal
than in any other year.
Mr.. Rosebrook is said to complain
because Of the fact that the price to be
paid for coal delivered at Marshalltown
is too high or that to be paid at Eldora
too low. in view of the fact that the
coal will all come from mine at Lock-
man, and the freight rate. on tonnage
basis, shows a greater difference than
the price of the awards. But the coal
was awarded on the British thermal
unit basis and not on the price per ton.
AS to how this will figure out when
settlements are made nobody but the
operators can know now. But at any
rate. one Iowa operator secured the
contracts at both institutions by sub
hitting best bids for coal delivered and
under the law the board could not have
done otherwise than award the con-
tracts to him.
In each case the only other Iowa
bidder was from Polk county, number
of offers Of Illinois and Indiana coal be-
ing made.
The board of control did everything
possible to induce Iowa operators to
OFFER coal to the state. As matter of
fact The committee OF operators also did
some work along this line, but Iowa
operators have not been anxious to bid
on the b. t. u. basis which is now recog-,
nized as the only fair one.
Some of those who have been doing
good deal of work trying to get BUSH
ness for the Iowa operators are resent
full of the attacks being made by Rose
brook. as a part of a political game, and
say it will work to the injury of the
Iowa coal trade.
Just half of the states of the union
have sought to modernize the system
of distributing the burden of loss by
damage to the human machine by rea-
SON of Industrial accidents.
The old common law, or liability
system, based on an assumption OF
responsibility only where there is
fault has long been discarded by all
the important industrial nations of
Europe.
The new system, Familiarity known as
workmen's compensation now covers
PROBABLY SSV0ll ulllllOu WORKERS. IN the
states.
Modern industry has brought us face
to, face with the difficult problem of
dealing fairly. and humanely with the
thousands Of unfortunate victims Of
our Industrial accidents, problem
daily increasing in perplexity. Every
year in the United States alone there
are killed outright 10000 workmen,
100000 are crippled. and there are in
jured. more or less seriously over
100000. With the never ceasing ex-
panse Of machine methods to new fields
of industry and the continued influx
Of women. children and unframed emf
grants into mechanical employrnents the
prospects are good for an increase in
number On the basis Of average every
laborer will be injured at least twice
Turing his lifetime. every tenth man
will ibe crippled. and every fifteenth
man will be killed. Every month we
kill twice as many men as were lost
In tho Ttantic disaster. and during a !
single year the loss from this indus
trial carnage exceeds the average an
nual casualties Of all our American
wars put together.
These are some Of the striking facts |
referred to by Henry E. Sampson, as
sistant attorney general Of Iowa, in |