The daily Nome industrial worker., 1915-12-13

odd die of disease contracted at their trade. More than half the glass makers succumb to the disease acquired in their business, and the same can be said of such occupa- tions as carpenters, locksmiths, ropemaliers, wool operatives, tin workers, coopers, brass workers, quarry men and stone cutters, cut lers and a large number of others.
 It is almost certain that those en- ployed making water proof garments will die from diseases following poisoning at the work, first comes chronic hysteria, for mort of the employees are young girls, and then temporary blindness and ultimately paralysis and death Incurablc lung disease are certain among workers where they are engaged in dust pro- ducing occupations. Any worker who stays with the cement making industry will die early of phthisis. Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University in a report prepared for tho National Conservation Commis- sion Senate document 676, 60th Congress second session. estimates that of 1,500,000 annual deahts in the United States, 42 per cent or 630,000 are preventable or postpon- able. He estimates that three mil lion are always on the sick list, and ''Dr. George M. Gould noted me- dical authority, estimates that sick ness and death cost the United States 0,000,000 yearly and that one third of this is prevent able
 The socialist handbook quotes U. s. Bulletin No 109, Mortality Sta tistics 1910, of the Bureau of Gen. sus, and the deaths listed are tabu- lated and show from accidental eau. ses, most of which are preventable and almost all of which are indus trial, entirely leaving out occupa tional deaths, there are forty-fve thousand four hundred and sixteen listed as killed. Yet that list is con, fined to the vital statistics regisra- tion area, and if embraced the en- tire country it would show list oc annual fatal accidents totalline scvcnty-oight thousand All these are victims of that beautiful peace which forms such a delicate and and delightful contrast to the hor- TOTS of war. The annual number of accidents fatal and otherwise, maim- ing, injuring or killing tho workers. the killed wounded or missing ot peace, numbers according to the tabulation of Frederick L. Hoffman throughout the United States per annum two million.
 Yet the total losses of Germany since the war begun hardly exce's this figure by many hundred thou- red thousand, and certainly for one years war they did not exceed il in Germany, in France, in England
 Yet that's during the piping times of peace that look well to Henry Ford. Suppose the workers of this country would insist that more at tention be paid to tho industrial ac- cidents, mortalities and fatalities of peace, so that these proventable deaths and preycntable accidents would be prevented, it is clear that a fine field would open for these uplifting friends of mankind where they could exercizc their benevol- ence without chartering steamers or having a national and interna- tional rumpus raised over it.
 We don't wonder at the satire of Shaw. What is to be wondered at is tho indifference of the workers themselves in this country to the facts and their significance.
 There are many less dangerous risks than the army for the work CTS; there are many places where escape is less likely than on the firing line in Europe.
 But the mortality in making pro- fits for another man is scattered over wide industrial area, while they are from time to time concen- trated during war within a certain geographical ,ocalization which con- centrates also human attention and arouses human horror.
 Filing up the vast wealth of the richest men in the United States has cost far more lives, ruined far more families. crushed far more