Show LIVES OF mm laws for their protection tec tion ENVOYS FROM IRELAND their mission in america at an End News from europe LONDON jan 9 Specie il at the coming session of parliament noua efforts are to be made by the radical and the few labor representatives in the house to pusa more stringent ent laws for the protection of the lives of miners and the punishment of mine owners through whose neglect or criminal care lives ere sacrificed from tim to time especially of late years trie is startled by the magnitude of the disasters in the mining districts men are swept away at a moments notice and then money is contributed freely to relieve the homes made desolate it will of course lie difficult to pass a law that the mine own t n can not evade at present they use tho relief fund usually contributed to relieve the families of the dead to protect themselves against the enforcement of the employers liability the mine owners never fail to get control of these funds for distribution when the wido wand orphans threaten to seela damage fort heir alsa at lawther law they are warned that if the resource to the courts they will be cut off from the relief fund la this predicament the poor people bacome irresolute if they appeal to the courts they are throwing aside a certain amount of relief for no matter how small for the privilege of pursuing a wealthy and powerful corporation through the intricacies of the law thus a fund subscribed to re lieve human suffering is used as a shield i to protect the capitalist who might be guilty of sacrificing the lives of many people |