The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
Cause Unknown Report
Comes from Scene of
the Latest Mine Disaster
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the usual report cause Unknown! that always
follows in the wake of every mine horror, from
the scene of the latest Disaster at Subet Wyoming.
Disasters At Mines Alarm u S. Bureau declare the
newspaper headlines But the alarm lasts for day only
The capitalist editor shoves the folow-up story, SO
dead miners bodies being dragged to the surface and stretch
ed out in morgue for Identification back page while
the first page display goes the story the headline
Find Girl in Gray in Thil Death
That capitalist civilization The death of rich busi-
trying steal eses wife, outweghs
Wanton murder of nearly workers. wealth pro-
They slaughtered on the job, while turning out
profits for the mine Some found dead sitting
in ready to be hauled to the surface for dinner Death
won by seconds: In another moment they would have
reached safety Now the charred copses only dent
flied by the numbers on their electric lamps
In country Europe the death rate of coal miners
high as it is in the United States.
Last year. every time million tons of coal the
surface in this country four coal miners gave their lives
The death list of coal miners last year. contained the
of 2,452 workers. Two hundred thousand injured.
The coal mining industry is exception Out in the
State OF washington industrial accidents claim life every
day. 20 being killed in month in the logging and lumber
ing industry alone.
One writer has put it this way
"ons out of five of the American soldiers mObzd for the
uassed, injured
zone out of 2 of the of New
physically injured in the last fiscal year.
zone out of "a American soldiers the World War
every waueearners in
killed the last fiscal while work. died from injury
ease suffered or contracted at his work."
Even the big employer, Arthur Williams of the New
York Edison Co., confesses that more than every
three industrial accidents might have been can be
This employer has also been forced make the con-
fesson that the increase in the killing Of workers on the Job
has been partly due to the speeding of production in shop
and factory"
Yet the whole capitalist system demands of the worker,
Greater speed More work.! AS the army of the unemployed
grows it used to batter down working standards. The
o at of
the long shift the boss hands out the warning safety first
That poor stmuan weary muscles unable to guard
against every pitfaI that follows bosses
economy methods"
aIf of the accidents and deaths occurring in the coal
mines of the country annually could probably be eliminated
by adequate safety supervision by operating companies
and exercise greater by the mine employees de-
cares W. W. Adams satscian of the Department of Labor
by the mine employees" if the workers willingly
their graves But this Iackey of Coolidge administration at
hitting suicide the job, before he get the
mldest criticism OF the employers
In years record, of every employed in
the railway mail service sustained injuries while at work
The casualty list showed for one year. 1887 killed. and 49,
511 injured
The deaths in industry the plaques of the goth
Century torturing mankind. 1t is estimated that
6ooooooo of the Inhabitants of Europe died small pox
in the United States to permit this disease to eoate the
population did two hundred years ago. Therefore
cessu fight urged against small pox to the workers
for the equally murderous industrial machine.
Capitalism didn't worry much diseases in the mos
qutobreedng swaps of Central America until it wanted
dig canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
The lives of workers in industry cheap. When one
worker, dead upon stretcher carried from the factory
entrance, raised to the surface from the mine pitt
always host of live strong take his place.
The factory mine need worry about the death
of workers. and he money failure install safety
appliances and maintain the proper workday
Not far from subIet Wyoming, is Teapot Dome, the
OF the robbery of the nations by the oil mag
nae Sinclair with the aid of secretary of the navy DENLY
In this State of Wyoming, at Elk Basin for in
stance John D. Rockefeers Standard Oil works
oil slaves seven days per week and II hours per day.
In this state, at Rock Springs, for instance is
estimated that there az natonaties Workers are
brought here from every of the world Chinese and
Japs, we'll Italians and Slavs dig profits for
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