White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-30
SAFETY FIRST TELLS
Of ACCOMPLISHMENT

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sued on Tuesday. "Of a total OF
twelve accidents causing disability.
eight of them will cause loss of more
than seven days time to each of the
victims. The aggregate number Of
shifts lost 10 all workers injured was
which could no doubt have been
avoided II the thought of Safety
First had been more prominent in the
minds of the injured men,"
At Copper Flat there were q acct
dents reported during April. of
which number eight caused disable
ment from four TO 10 days. At the
Ruth mine two accidents were re-
ported. with no disablement. The
eoncentrator had l. cases of minor
injury but zone that caused disable
ment or loss of time. At the smelter
Is accidents occurred Of which one
caused a loss of two DAYS time. one
four DAYS and one ten days.
The Bulletin that one of
the incidents of the month came
very near being a fatal accident.
when Leon Briggs. a ten-year old boy
narrowly escaped drowning in the
club house swimming pool. Thanks
to the screams of frightened women,
and prompt action OF an attendant.
who fished the lad out OF eight feet
of water. after diving twice. and the
efforts of Or. Wallace for a quarter
of an hour. the boy did not join the
angels. Safety First says:
If the accident. and il is charity
to call it an accident, had resulted
seriously. it would have been direct
" c~hargeable 70 the violation of a
rule established for the safety and
protection of children" (Children
under twelve years of g are not
allowed in the swimming pooh. +
"On several occasions mothers have
taken their babies into the pool in
pen disobedience TO the rule and of
the attendants urgent remonstranee.
with the remark to the attendant
that we think more Of our children
than do you or the company" The
Bulletin is constrained to dispute
this statement. Mothers may love
their children more than they are
loved by the COMPANY but they do
not think of them or for them as
much as the company does. IL is not
intended to deny the little ones the
pleasure of the pool. but until a
competent instructor can be employ
ed who can devote all his time and
attention to the pool and to teaching
the youngsters to swim. the rules
will have TO be rigidly enforced.
And it will be enforced from now on
even though it becomes Necessary to
deny the privileges OF the club TO tn
wives md families OF employees.
An EDITORIAL feature OF the Apr,
Eulletin, appears under the caption
why the Salcon2. This article has
to do with the recent petition pre-
scented - the county commissioners
by residents in that vicinity 10 rev
woke all the saloon licenses at Ruth.
The Bulletin says a good deal upon
the subject including the following
THE Safety Department mas never
presumed to dictate in the moral and
social affairs of its employees. but the
Bulletin is in full sympathy with
them in their fight to abate a de-
rlorable nuisance. Not only on the
grounds of extreme moral turpitude
Of the joints. but for the protection
OF safety and efficiency among en-
ployes the Bulletin is glad to cham
pion the cause and to help the faith
ers and mothers of Ruth fight for
the removal of the whiskey shops
that crowd close TO the mines and
works.
Alcoholism destroys energy and
ability; wrecks mental and physical
~fficiency and decreases a mans earn
ing capacity. 1t robs him of the
power to think. and a man who can
not think is a constant source OF
danger to himself and to his fellow
workmen in any employment, ire
lspective of the inherent risk Of oe-
cupation. The law recognizes the
extra hazard involved and caused by
intoxication to the extent that ii de-
MES compensation to a workman for
injuries he might receive when IN
der the influence of alcohol. And a
man is just as much under the in
f~luence of alcohol lin the cold. gray
down of the mrning after" when his
nerves are shaky and his brain is in
collapse, as though he were stagger-
ing drunk.
1.-The hearing of May 9th was
postponed, for reasons best known
to the commissioners, but it is to be