New Britain herald., 1924-03-15
THE OBSERVER-
Makes Random. Observations On the City and Its People

the lives of scores, had he told of tht
 numerous times men have been i'm 1 prisoned by fall of top," for day,
 and weeks, or crushed into shapeles.
 nIasses. when the overhead structure suddenly slipped, he would have beer giving the other side of the story.
 Mir. Newton did not state that the
 contract miners who seem to be SC
 well paid, usually are engaged in the job of ''robbing pillars" which ill
 plain English simply means that they
 are taking out the support of the
 surface at the risk of their lives and
 the companies pay high rates to these contractors because they can't hire men any other way to do the work. l aIr. Newton should ascertain why ! the young men of the coal regions
 leave home and why coal miners are not satisfied for some vague reason. or why there is general discontent in
 that region. Probably it is nothing the operators can remedy. Assuredly
 there exists the nonresident owner
 ship which makes for lack of sym pathy, to employees.
 Few coal operators, and some la
 Dor agitators, know little from ex-
 perienee of what the miner is up against. He may be a bolshevik, but
 if he is, he is raised in a bolsherik environment
 Another thing MT. Newton made no mention of-the badge of a miner." One who has lived in the coal fields can always pick a miner. Few there are who do not show on their faces somewhere those tell-tale blue streaks or marks indicating that some time or another they have figured in an explosion and coal dirt has been blown into their faces by gunpowder and dynamite, while the medical treatment they received was from amateur first aid men at the mines.
 Nor did he say anything of the miners inheritance, known as min er's asthma" q form of tuberculosis, caused by gas, damp air and some times too much compressed air, which sends many miners coughing and to their graves, when they should be in the prime of life. The figures Of asthma victims do not find thein way into mortality reports at the mines.
 Scratch a landlord and you'll find a Tartar" said Bill Bumps as he lounged back in his chair and began to engineer his gold plated tooth picL which some admiring friends had l given him.
 Yep, they're most of them the ! same. Just look at what they're loin' in New Britain right now. ,oostin' the rents, many of them, and l luttin' good tenants out on the street | because the tenants refuse to buy the | house and hand 1t back to them every month.
 Rent raisin' is something like the f neasles.. It just spreads and spreads lntil every landlord is scratchin' for arger income. The way some Of them ,reak out is n caution. That gent named Shyloek which William wrote a piece about had ! heart as big as West Peak com ,ared to some of the people who hink they should stop work for life ust as soon as they get their first pay nent put down on q three decker. I it is possible for the dead to know that is going on in the world of the wing, Shylock must be whiring , round in his grave like turbine. Ie was a smart fellow in his day but e would have been regarded as q in this year 1924.
 Another thing that starts my goat np the street is the man !, 'ho adrertises an apartment and ,cks on as an afterthought No chi- 2 rem The poor starved critter prob bly never had any Of his own and .. . 'ould have treated them like Oliver wist was treated in the poor house
 he had had any.
 Lord bless our souls, where arc le kids going to live anyhow? They re brought into the world without ( ieir knowledge or consent and as T ,on as they get old enough fo want s } walk around some landlord raises j. howl because they happen to walk f cross the five cents worth of lawn q ed he has tossed on the mud patch c
 front of his house. And if they it