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

Many people especially those who disagree with him. refuse to take Bernard Shaw seriously, and as he doesn't appear to take himself very acerbity, and whose criticisms are And that is very satisfactory about any person whose wit is tinged with acrebity, and whose criticisms are too outrageously true to be at all conventional.
 Thus, when he sctirizes the Fore peace expedition and says that pra:- tically as many are killed during peace in the industries of the na- tions, and Diling up wealth for the Fords and the others, whose lone suit during peace is war and whose long suit during war is peace, the majority will laugh at the statement as some huge unintelligble joke, just because it is made by Shaw.
 Shaw has discovered that fools laugh easily, and he enjoys the de- monstration of popular folly when they laugh at the corroding home truths that he thrusts into the bod. polite from time to time.
 Now take this statement that peace kills practically as many as are killed in war, it would be a mighty hard thing upon the various writers whose eloquent pens have have been drawing red pictures of the unusual horrors of this great war, if We were to take Shaw seri- ously for Shaw uttered never truec word.
 It is true not only of the Euro pean nations, but it is true about the United States as the Industrial Worker from the very latest official or other semi-authoritative statistics will submit.
 And it is an opportunity that must be availed of to drive home the important lesson that lot of this war horror talk is all humbug, and a lot of this spontaneous phi lauthrophy that finds expression iu far off fields in hypocrisy pure anG simple.
 First we take the number of em- pioyees killed or injured in the steam railroad industry In 1913 there were employed one million seven hundred and sixty-six thou. sand, eight hundred and eigthy three Of this number an average per day are killed of ten. While killed and injured per year number one hundred and scventy-ive thou. sand, one hundred a~d tbiTty-two
 The number killed in the coal mining industry out of the cix hund- red and seven thousand which is the average number employed amounts to two thousand two hundred and seventy per annum.
 Tn quarries per thousand employ cd 169 are killed, TIT are serious ly or fatally injured, while 40.S1 are injured.
 There are forty-four thousand six hundred and ninety three em pioyed in copper mining in the United States, of this number 23S are killed annually, or 5.33 per thousand; seriously or fatally in iured, 1, 326 or 29.67 per cent per thousand; injured 9,011 or 201.I per thousand.
 Those are accidents, but taking the mortality among the miners in the various lines we find tha thirty per cent died from accidents, 32 from tubercuosis and pneumonia, and 3S from "other causes not dir ectly traceable to their occupation The average for coal miners is about the same except that there are less tuberculosis and slightly fewer accidental deaths.
 A compiled list of fatalities in occupations reveals that while the United States army In war per iods averages but 500 per thousand railroad brakemen average 15.8 per thousand, gurpowder manufacturers lD.5 per thousand, fishermen on the east coast 13.3 per thousand.
 Out of one thousand seven hund- red potters employed in the potte- ries according to statistics, one thousand die from occupational di- sease. Out of eighteen hundred fife makers employed eight hundred odd die of occupational diseast, out of eleven hundred and ninety eight zinc workers employed fivo hundred