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Show THE BUN, PRICE, PAGE TWO IN L LEWIS WRITES INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June John I Lewis, president of the 14. Unit- (BURIED MINER RESCUED AFTER ed Mine Workers of America, in a book 'The Miners' Fight For American Standards, published today are lays that if the American people to be assured of a constant flow of coal, priced to secure a fair return for the men who own the mines and the men who man them, uneconomic mines post be closed and unscientific frieght rates be abolishel. "Above all, the American constitution must mean yebat it says in every coal field of he declares. "American America, law must run to the remotest corner of America and American political rights must have as equal value everywhere as the American dollar. The tales of outrege and tyranny coming n fields have weakfrom the ened resjiect for government everywhere. What Lincoln once said of the nation applies with poignant force to the coal industry today 'it cannot live half free and half slave.' "The openminded reader should discover, that the policy of the Mine Workers is not to steal mines 'from their owners, the book says, "but to make it possible for tins owners of economic and properly equipped mines operated by free labor under an American system of government to make reasonable and continuous profits. The owners of such mines in all the onion fields could help bring about such a situation if they choose. The industry cannot function properly in the union fields nor can the essential necessary to efficient production be obtained as long as the union operators permit the interests to occupy the position of spokesman for the industry and to mislead the public. , An Economic Attack. n inter"The arts of the ests are an attack upon the declared economic purposes of the American people as enacted in tariff and immigration laws. These walls have keen erected to protect American capitalists, traders and workingmen. But within these ramparts that wejiuve reared for the protection of our delicately balanced machinery of producn interests and their tion the railroad allies have created similar systems to those which we have sought to bar from our shores. These centers of disturbance are unbalancing all our business relationships as the result of their lowpaid labor and the unsrienti-fisystem of freight rates that enables this cheap labor not only to compete on more favorable terms with the labor of sections in which normal industrial conditions end dvilxed government prevail American industry cannot allosr the continued existence of these local areas of strife, uncertainty and value destroying fluctuations of wages and prices in the business of supplying the most important raw material, physically and financially, that enters the channels of commerce... Lewis meets the suggestion of wage reduction in the union fields with this statement: "With an adequate coal supply n nor the union neither the operator can hope for the high prices caused. by the annual ear shortage. With a three-yewage agreement in the union fields, which forestalls any strikes and leaves no hope to the nonunion operator of profiteering at the expense of the union fields during susn interests have pensions, the undertaken to bankrupt the oierators of the union fields. But in so doing they are gradually bankrupting themselves in the vain effort to overcome ' geography by selling enslaved manpower in competition with coal. At the same time tlie struggle in the union fields is slowly weeding out mines, obsolete equipment and incompetent management.. Prolonging Maladies. "Any wage reduction would serve only to prolong the muladies of the industry, while sacrificing the rights of the miners. The rate question is of peculiar interest at this time because n ocratorv enjoy low rates for long hauls to markets geographically to union fields hare been led to pour ever increasing tonnage of serf produced coal into Northern and Northwestern markets. This situation has suited admirably the purixise of the reactionary faction in the union fields, whieh cluniors for a wage reduction. The jieople ami industries of the United States can and will consume in any given year only the amount of coal they need. Itate changes may for a lime make this or that district prosperous and impoverish others, but in the end the favored districts will repeat the vicious cycle of over development and uneconomic operation to a point where rate favoritism will no longer benefit then:, evei. if it has first ruined their coiniwtitorg. "Unless all industrial history leads us to a false conclusion and all that we know almut human nature is wrong, the Rockefeller plan in Colorado (where company unions were introduced in mines) or any other plan originally dependent upon the initiative of the employer alone, will always fail to establish anything like an industrial constitution by an actual partnership of labor in the entcr- the writer continues. The Eiae, scheme to evade a union contract by a socially advanced industrial scheme is mining of and bnnkrupt mines. Thu in this form of mine non-unio- non-uni- on - FIFTY-FOU- HOURS R GRASS VALLEY, Cnla., June 14. hours of imprisonment two hundred feet underground in a dismal tunnel of the Baltic gold mine ended at 11:40 o'clock last night for Rdliert Hill, miner. At that hour Hill's comrades, who had been digging away savagely at the last few feet f the slide that trapjHid him, broke through into the rock chamber beyond. There stood Hill, haggard, hungry and almost blinded, but cheerful. "I knew from the first that you would save me and I had no fears of the outcome, he said as he clasped tho hand of Joe Solari, the leader of the rescue crew and one of Hills closest friends. Mrs. liill and her three children were waiting at the mouth of the tunnel. Word had gone out that a break through was expected momentarily. Then rame the flash out of the darkness of the tunnel: "Weve got him. Unable to restrain herself any longer, Mrs. Hill rushed down the passageway, followed by her oldest son. In a few minutes they were with the husband and father and were helping him out to the open. A narrow tunnel of more than sixty-fiv- e feet in length wag hewn from the rock and fallen material to effect Hills rescue. It was just a few minutes after midnight when the party emerged, Ilill in their midst. Hill was smoking a big, black cigar, his first request from his rescuers. He waved a cheery greeting to the silent miners about him. "I have never doubted my rescue from the cave, he told his companions. "I could hear the miners working. I knew how much loose material lay between me and them, and so I knew I could be saved. Fifty-si- x non-unio- non-unio- e . non-unio- ar non-unio- non-unio- -- An BOOK IN WHICH HE C0ND1NS TELLS OF management is, in fact, the of the workers with the management to insure profits to mines whieh are not entitled to them at the workers expense. Obviously this form of industry is merely wage cutting camouflaged as social progress. Turning to mechanisation of mines, the writer says the policy of the Mine Workers will inevitably bring about the utmost employment of machinery of which coal mining .s physically caahle. The policy of those who seek the disruption of the existing wage structure would only postpone mechanisation of the industry and perpetuate obsolete methods. The Checkoff System. ...'The. United Mine Workers has insisted on the checkoff, becqiihc it is the most efficient instrument by which (he industry ran be kept functioning at maximum efficiency under the system of employment it has sanctioned. Under such conditions the checkoff becomes of the very essence of and mutuality. The history of the industry shows that it is as essential to the continuous prosperity of the operators as of the men. Primarily, it is the means by whieh the sanctity of the contract under which the industry is conducted is maintained. The reason the anthracite operators have refused to grant the checkoff is that their superintendent and spies working among the mine workers endeavor to induce as many men as possible not to pay dues into the union, hoping therehv to lessen union activity. Today, however, the paid-u- p membership in the anthracite region represents all of the eligible men employed in the industry. "The United Mine Workers is fnlly justified in insisting that the lie a contract provision in the agreement between the operator and the L'nited Mine Workers of America. As for the bituminous operators the majority want it. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1925 FRIDAY. UTAH-EVE- RY Important Change in Policy i OTU DEBAKER herewith announces the discontinuance of: the custom of presenting a new line of automobiles each year. Instead of bringing Stude . baker Cars once in twelve months, we shall hep them dramatically all of the time with every improvement and refinement made available by our great engineering and manufacturing resources. This policy not only directly benefits present Studebaker owners, but it also enables purchasers of new cars to obtain models that are always modem without the necessity of waiting for annual changes, and without the danger of their new cars becoming obsolete. up-to-da-te up-to-da-te iCK of this new policy is an amazing story of interest to everyone who owns or expects to own an automobile. The dramatic success of the present line of Studebaker Cars is one reason for this important change. Month after month we keep breaking records sales keep piling up. This year we will sell almost four times as many automobiles as we produced in the big boom year which followed the war. Owners report endurance records, even beyond our greatest expectations. Out in the rugged moun- tain regions where Studebaker sells four times its normal proportion of cars, owners talk about these models in the most extravagant terms. In 1924 the Corporations sale of repair parts dropped to $10 per car per year. Mechanical stamina under severe usage remarkable performance under the most difficult travel conditions these are the qualities for which Studebaker Cars have . one-prof- long been noted. Surely these significant facts prove beyond any . . shadow of doubt that Studebaker Cars are so soundly engineered and manufactured and so eminently satisfactory in the hands of owners, that drastic annual changes are not required. Improvements and refinements will be made from time to time. New features will be added. When our engineering department (maintained at a cost of more than half a million dollars a year) devises an improvement iri any model, it will be made without regard to the calendar. As in the past, we shall continue to pioneer vital betterments that have proved their merit through practical use. Alert, aggressive, receptive to new ideas, resourceful in executing them, guided by scientific research and spurred by imagination, the Studebaker organization proposes to build better motor cars than ever before. Now you may buy a Studebaker on any day of the year with the confident assurance that the it car you drive away will sturdy, thrifty, not be stigmatized by any act of ours as a last years model. Today, in even more generous measure than in the past, Studebaker Cars offer the utmost value for the money. THE STUDEBAKER CORPORATION OF AMERICA, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA V , . . STUDEBAKER MOTORCARS his isaStudebakerlSar Broeker Garage Bldg., North Ninth St. PRICE, UTAH . hotel is' completed, kitchen and diningroom will be moved into it and the boardinghouse used aa a family residence. In the meantime the work on the smaller upjier vein is being continued and the coal produced therefrom, which was of the highest quality from the atari, is better today than when the first "black diamonds were taken out. The directors listened to the report with a groat deal of interest and satisfaction and gave Lewis a vote of apSEVIER VALLEY PEOPLE' PLAN preciation for hia efficient and economical management. EARLY PRODUCTION che-k-o- KIC11FIKLD, June 13. ff With J. C. ACCIDENTS AT THE MINES ON Sunnier, vice president in the chair, the directors of the Sevier Valley Coal company held a meeting here 4 he other day and were unanimous in approving the pinna worked out by the management for assuring an early start and rapid completion of railroad construction up Salina Canyon as proposed by the Denver and Rio Grande W estern. At a stockholders meeting to he held here July 2d the plans will be discussed in detail 'and when authorized by the stockholders action will he .taken immediately. Regarding the activities in developing the pnqicrty of the company, General Manager Lewis report ed that things are progressing in i most .satisfactory manner. The second section of shaft is completed and another fifteen feet of it cemented so that the walls ore now reaching to a e feet. Every secdepth of tion will lie so treated as work profeet of the sinkgresses and fifty-si- x ing is now done. It is an absolute certainty that the big vein will be arrived at in time when transportation facilities will lie there to start produc tion on a substantial scale. The new boardinghouse is so far up and equipped that it will lie ready for occupancy by the end of the week. It will house the kitchen and diningroom with a seating capacity for thirty-tw(icrsniis. Plans also arc ready to build a big camp hotel of permanent eharac ter solid, modern und comfortable as soon as the railroad gets in there to tranxjiort tLe material. After the fifty-thre- o . DECLINE IN APRIL Accidents at coal mines in the United States in the month of April caused the death of hundred and forty-twinen, according to reports rewnt-l- y made by the various atate inspectors to the United Status bureau of mines. The deathrate for the month compared with 6.58 in April last year. The output wAs 41,174,000 net tons in April, 1025, and 37,215,000 in April, 1924. The much lurger dcuthrate for April last year was due to the loss of a hundred nnd nineteen lives in an explosion at Benwood, W. Ya., without which the rate would have been 3.30. o Reports made to the bureau for anthracite mines showed that thirty-fou- r fatalities occurred in April, indicating a fatality rate of 4.55 per million tons, based on a production of 7,472,-00- 0 during the month. This compares with a rate of 4.99 in Apirl last year and an average of G.0S for the month of April over a ten years period, 1915-192- 4. The reports for bituminous mines showed a death list of a hundred and eight men and a production of 33,702,-00- 0 tons, indicating a fatality rate of 3.20 per million ions, as compnred with 6.94 for April last year (including the Benwood explosion) and an average of 4.31 for April during the ten years 1915 to 1924. During the first four months, January to April of the present year, seven hundred and thirty-seve- n employes have been killed by accidents. As the production during this period totaled 191,370,000 tons, the fatality rate to date tor 1925 is 3.85 per million as against 5.11 for the same months last. year. For anthracite mines alone, tne fatality rate is G.08, based on a hundred and ven deaths and an output of tons, while for the first fonr month of 1924 the corresponding rate .was 5.42. The rate for the bituminous mines alone is 3.45 as compared with 5.06 last year,- this year a output to date being 162,245,000 tons and the fatalities numbering 'five hundred and Cursor that tired; bored feeling pictures of the same type is tiring; most eonle experience after a run whether observers retain many imthrough an art galler is being sought pressions if a tour includes many different kinds of pictures and whether by the American Association of Mu- labels are a help. seums and Prof. Edward 8. Robinson, noted psychologist of the University Anyway, the lawmakers will surely of Chicago, has undertaken to find it. never compel us to Pastuerize the "It is an established fact, says milk of human hindnau); 'thst the casual tourist comes out of an art gallery all ready for bed Bulgaria has three thousand persona and retaining little information about in prison. That country is rapidly bewhat he has seen and no aesthetic ing Americanized. Laboratory experiments are being conducted to detremine how Intuition may be peculiar to women, numbers of pictures viewed affect dif- but how are some men able to , sixty. pick 1925 record for The to the end of ferent persons; whether seeing many winner f April shows four major disasters or accidents killing five or more men at. one time, which caused an aggregate loss of ninety-fiv- e lives. During the same months last year there were five similar disasters resulting in the loss of three hundred and eighty-fou-r. The fatality rate based exclusively on the major disasters therefore stands at. 0.50 per million tons in 1925 and 1.90 for 1924. Considering the aceidents by causes, the reports made to the bureau for 1925 show a marked reduction in the deathrate from explosions of gas and dust, no change for falls of roof and coal and a slight increase in accidents from haulage, explosives aud Concentration of the needs of customers enables us to electricity.line of seventy-se- 00 Rob-inso- n, - r We Are At Your Service Always, Folks STATE CHAMPION TEAMS WILL ENTER THE CONTEST SPRINGFIELD, Ills., June 14. Ninety judges will be required in determining the standing of teams entered in the international mine rescue and first aid contests to be held here on September 10th to 12th, inclusive. Eighty teams of six men eaeh, including champion ones from many states, have indicated their intention of competing. Thomas T. Read of Washington, 1). 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