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Show UTAH COAL MINERS HAVE COMFORTOFCITY M , 2 First aid station underground at VIEWS in Utah coal c,mp, in Carbon county. 1. General view of mode' town of Standard!, ."Ta ToTelZ at Standard V Clear Creek mine No. 1. 3. General view of Snnnyslde, 1th typleaj larre uuummk haU in foreground at r.At eujoylng a iMce in spacious AJausement mine employees at" Hiawatha, where they can get board and room for $1? per aiont Company store at a wa. m. . Q-i'e. . " Well-Emit H Jf vided for the Met erators in All the Every Possible Is Taken to Both Safe and H, no of the newer .-. trict. where theoj , bin d along .the proved lines. T-.e-e stucco houses, splendifcl :i': -.a - re. ,j A . . , here. w;lh inside tS and otner con, enlerS, r-9 lighted looms, cost, i,? !1 By next summer n(J ,f I will nave gardens of -j, At Hiawatha most of nT1! nave lawns and gjS, No tn;:. .-, ro cha , est charge takes in S T .e company furnuK witn fireproof walls, ? In otner camps these V?, 6 range from J2 to 1Jf!r more than that Gara, rows upon rows of t'r.m J' cars. And don't tWnk. ' that they are an ?w Standardvii7 quiry and found that fc V?8 munity of not more tinf J counting men, womea au5 were iorty-two auroaas cudc-1 tne National. Haynes. Overland, well-known makes "? Modem Conditions Prevail Throughout Bituminous District in Carbon County, j Cost of Living and Wages Make Possible Saving of Tidy Sums During Year. By J. LEO MEEHAN. IF the average man set out to find a laoiiel community in which to make Msl home In the state of Utah, it is unlikely that he would begin in the coal regions of Carbon county. So much has been said and printed and reported re-ported and rumored about the living conditions con-ditions of the coal miner and his family that one who had made little or no in- vestlgation would be inclined to the belief that a coal camp would be about the most undesirable spot imaginable. Yet it Is a fact that in the coal mining camps of Carbon county there may be found several of Utah's best communities, from health and sociological viewpoints. And. taking them on the whole, it is very-safe very-safe to venture that they are far belter places to live than the average community in the state, or, for that matter, in any S The recent strike of the bituminous coal i . ... Krtittrht thrr industry and tue i - - . . "" " .'':'".r Vs-:. j js::; m wm -i ; that belonged to one v-JW there. The superimeMe..1J tnere weie iir addition two cars twenty-seven Pi"t tnem player pianos if"C.fe S1000. in the camp. rt-?f thirty-five cabinet pho-oS-i high .as SSCO eachT T&W completed a large aiirasnJ.-, soda fountain and otjw SLw1 Japanese Have BathluJt' Salt Lake never has mZTB'1 anese population with j r2F anese bathhouse, and I vjBi ar.;- .iirr.ar.d for one, des; 'Wf' months. As a class they are wanderers and more or less improvident. The operators take no pleasure in see-inK see-inK good miners go down the hill at the beginning of a slack season, " means that when the rush comes on again they ' must go out into the labor market and seek men and rebuild their organization-Much organization-Much better for them if they could maintain main-tain a good, average force the- year around. Any man in business knows that And that is why the companies endeavor to keep the men busy even during the lack seasons if they are willing to stay. The income tax reports compiled by the operators indicate very clearly from the America are not on what one might term the "preferential list" of employees. Why not? Because the mine operators want to deal with their own employees and run their own plants. They object very seriously to having their employees managed by "walking delegates who really don't seem to walk as much as they sit. Thev want their employees to be governed w'ithin their own properties, and not subject to orders from iiid.an-apol iiid.an-apol s, or somewhere else. They believe thev are entitled to run their own properties', proper-ties', and deal with their own men. Organ. zation of employees within a property prop-erty is not discouraged, I am told. The doors of the superintendents and the foremen fore-men and the other directors of properties nre open at all times, either to representatives representa-tives of their employees selected from among their own number, or to indiv.dual employees who believe they have cause for complaint. In fact, I observed that as a general practice these superintendents and foremen got around the properties and talkea with the men so frequently that they were in pretty close touch with conditions all the time. Agitators Busy. In the mining camps It is the same unfortunate un-fortunate situation- that prevails elsewhere else-where in the ranks of organized labor: only possiblv it is worse there because of the large foreign element that breeds agitators agi-tators as a dog breeds fleas. The people of Utah, for example, do not believe that the rank and file of its unionized citizens believe we ought to have a soviet government govern-ment in America, and consequently are disloyal to the government of the United States. Tet. at a recent state convention, radical agitators succeeded in securing an endorsement of sovietism. The mine workers union, in common with other unions, has not purged Itself of agitators. Unfortunately such societies have in the ranks such murderers and anarchists an-archists as perpetrated the outrages at Centralia the other day. And in the coal mining industry there is a very large percentage per-centage of foreign labor, among whom the worst of these Rgltators are found. The operators arc afraid of the damage that may he wrought by such o'ly-tongued Individuals In-dividuals among a lot of unthinking work-ingmen. work-ingmen. Thev want to protect their property prop-erty from such dangers, and they want to protect the'r men from the dangers of such industrial radicalism. Union miners in Carbon county were counselled by these leaders to go out if the str'ke order was issued, and had It not been withheld thev undoubtedly would I have gone out. For what? Because they working and living conditions surrounding surround-ing it into the limelight. Columns and I columns were printed concernnig the grievances of the miners, grievances ranging rang-ing from living conditions to hours and wages and alleged unfair practices upon the part of the operators. The tnougiu occurred then, What of these conditions In the state of Utah, where coal mining is one of our large industries? Conditions Studied. "Come down and see for yourself how these folks live," suggested Colonel George L Byram, who has been at Helper in charge of a detachment of United btatej troops, who were to preserve order ana protect property in case Of disturbances there, which, fortunately, never too. place. And so it came about that I was sent by The Tribune to look around ra Utah's' coal camps. I spent several days in Carbon county, going to the representative represen-tative camps, studying conditions. The results re-sults of my observations. I am satisfied, are unbiased and cold tact. Generally speaking, my impression is that if there is anyone who is entitled to be a, Bolshevist it Is the so-called "white collared" chap wno lives here in Salt Lake working his head oil m an office, of-fice, selling goods over the counter or performing per-forming other ordinary tasks that make up the great majority of jobs performed by what the cartoonist usually laoels the common people." . Coal miners make more money BWB better houses, eat more and better food, are provided with as much whplesomen amusement and get more for their money than the men in any other occupation I can possiblv think of. That is. I mean the coal miners of Utah, because I know little of conditions in the coal regions oi Illinois or of Pennsylvania or Wyom.n or elsewhere, and In this discussion I am concerning myself strictly wit.n conditions in Utah; for, if Utah miners went on strike which thev did not because many of them do not belong to the union ana because the strike order was withhe.d for union men in this state, the general public pub-lic would naturally assume it was because they were dissatisfied with working or living liv-ing conditions in Utah. Strike Sentiment Lacking. While in Carbon county I. endeavored honestly to gel the sentiment of tne men, and certainly I Was unable to find any considerable con-siderable sentiment that was In favor o. the strike. I heard few complaints as to working conditions, wages, hours of labor, housing conditions or anything e.se. Bom men. especially foreigners, had joined the union because they were tola that. If they al! joined, the union and not the operators would run things. I pot that from a mine employee, one who was approached on the subject himself and one who knows the rank and file, I believe, be-lieve, pretty well. I talked for an hour one evening witn John McLennan, organizer in Utah for the . United Mine Workers of America. I told McLennan frankly that I expected to write something on conditions in the coal mining min-ing camps of Utah, and that I wanted the miners' side of the story. I learned from him that there was no particular objection here to wages or living conditions; that the principal grievance he had was the unwillingness of the big Utah operators, particularly to have their roen join the union. That was McLennan's chief complaint, com-plaint, his principal grievance, and the principal grievance of the union leaders at the various mines, it seemed. I heard but one other complaint, and that was the matter of check Welshmen. When a train of loaded coal cars come out of the mines and arrive at the tipple, where the coal is dumped into the railroad rail-road cars for shipment, they pass over scales and are weighed. Aj weighman, paid by the company, but furnished by and bonded with the Western Weighing association, notes the weights and credits them to the miners who fjlled those cars. Allegations and insinuations have been made that operators took advantage of the miners in recording of weights short- :hl careless negligence. Two Japanese I miners were working in a room that 1 entered with an otQow of the mine. The' roof was properly supported by wooden pillars. 1-ylng on top of a pile of co.il at which the two m.n were digging wa. a large f at rock. The engineer who was with me warned the Japs tnnt this rock wus llkelv tn slide and knock out one of the pillars If they undermined it furt.ier. The Japs showed their pearly teeth in a characteristic Brail, and said: "Ah. no; that all right; no danger." They did not .'eel It necessary to tak the precautions that cnnimon svnse fllrt.it rd. State statistics show that during this same period the average weekly minium wage of coal miners was $".'0.oS. and the average maximum was $U 6k. In metal mines the average weekly minimum was I2.V0S and the average maximum $11.10. liThe pav rolls for coal mining amounted ' to 17,116.465, for metal mining! Sf.741.70s. I Taking the number of employees Into consideration, con-sideration, this sliows that the average annual wage of employees In coal mining wag $16M.j3: in metal mining, 9TS.7 were dissatisfied with their pay, their hours, their living conditions? No, simply because they had Joined the union and felt they would have to "go through with it." I venture tiie big majority of them were rel eved when the strike order, as it affected Utah, was withheld by the Indianapolis In-dianapolis leaders. Conditions Reviewed. Now let us have a brief glimpse at some of these living conditions; ict us see what the payrolls say; Jet us take the unbiased statistics contained in the reports of the state industrial commission, Just to see what cond.tions actually are. I have found no one in tho course of my investigation who denied thut coal mining was a hazardous occupation. I confess I deliberately tried to trap1 some of the company officials into such statements, state-ments, for the sake of an argument; to see whether they really were 'holding out." Hut my own study of statistics In-clmeH In-clmeH me to believe that these men exaggerated ex-aggerated on the fl.de of the danger, rather ra-ther than having tried to minim. zo that phase of it. A study of statistics complied by tho ftatC industrial commission for the year ending .lu.y 1, 1918. gives somo very in- t terefjtmg facts. In that time there were , a total of 1517 non-fatal accidents reported re-ported to the comm asion from QOal mines. Dtirlns tho same period there were 888 non-fatal accidents reported from tho metal mines Of the State. These accidents range from mere I0rat0b6l on the finger. ucn as the dalntteei young bride in Bait LaJCfl might, get, and promptly forget when "hubby" kissed It. to tho loss, perhaps, per-haps, of ft limb or an eye. In that same period there were sixteen fatal aOOldotltl in (be ci.al minefi, iim uga.nut twenty-three Utal ft'eidenin .n the metalliferous mines. During that period the payrolls showed vvi i COS employees In t be con I mines, and 'y.i7 In Hie metal mines. In other wot 'If!. .'10 per ceill of the employees in the two Industries were in the coal ruin", fif (he fatal accidents, ther; 30 per cent In 'be ooal tnlfltt sustained 41 per oentj ot the non-fatal acoldentg, 4 Vr oetlt. The coal minora, then, sustained sus-tained ii per cent more ot tho fatal ocol-d ocol-d en)! mid i per rent rnnrn of the noii-r;,i,. noii-r;,i,. neC dents than bis portion. In the c 'rnl mines there was one non-fatal awe dent for every 2.84 men; In the ine'.a I mines one for i very 3.46 men. In the mattef of fatal accidents. Ihuro wus one for every 2G9 men in the coal mines, and one for every 43U men In tho metal mines. Th.se are facts, and they prove undeniably undeni-ably that there s a risk In coal mining. Most Accidents Slight. Hut to be fair, a fiirCbor examination of these figures should be. mauu. It must bo remembered that even the sUffhtett of accidents must be reported, actiiaentl of such a minor character as happen to Johnny or VVtUiO every day during vacation, vaca-tion, and ever y other day whan I hey are in school. The same itat itiaal aouroo shows that of tl)oifl coal mme aao.danti that were not fatal, only eleven roaulted even in partially permanent disability. The great majority of them. l-'W to he exact, were of such n minor character as not to have Incapacitated tho injured fur seven days, or the period after wbieii compensation com-pensation wag paid. There were only :ti where the injured men were Incnpacltatod more than seven days, and therefore- n-celved n-celved compensation. In the metal mine:;. 40 wore part. ally d.sablod in permanerit way; 740 disabled longer than seven day, and 23l0 disabled less than scv u days, i Tho specific injury statistics, for cases where the.ro was the loss p( an eye. 0t a ! limb, OT ft finger or toe or something of that sort, g.vc 17 for coal Otinet ftAO 10 for the metal initio.", a very small percentage. per-centage. Tho greatest number of Injuries, experts ex-perts tell me, occur tanew and Inagpe-r.encod Inagpe-r.encod men. If a miner passes the firl three to six month w.tlmut an accident, lie has n very good chance of be ug safe front auythtng serious, lie Is wine then; he knows the signs that almost Inevitably Inevit-ably foretell d. mger In a ''".il mine. And there Is no iiucstaui but that a great many accidents are due to sheer carelessness. careless-ness. Men I otne cureless, and fall to heed the warning signs. Roofs Offer Danger. Falling ruoTs In t'ie rooms of the mlno constitute one or the greatest . burners remaining re-maining In oftr i:tah coal mines, An ex-prrleneed ex-prrleneed mlnnr. I am lot!, can, If he px-prvlses px-prvlses reasonable cure, dodge smdi accident.". acci-dent.". If lie sound t ihe roof pioucrly. nnd puts In support! when I boy nre need I ; If he heeds the cracking nnd dri tig of small bits of coal thM precede pre-cede tho heavier full, ho can moid &nah trouble. While In the I tln'lt ha wtt mine the Other flay I witnessed an excellent example of Some compensation, then, for the slight difference in attendant hazards of tho two occupations. Rut tho money is only one of the -compensations; there are others, as I will endeavor to show. Hut. before going Into the matter. I want to consider further for a moment ihe question of wages. It might be said that an average annual Income of $10ft'.r:i wan low. That might be true If It were absolutely abso-lutely so, but the figures are not altogether alto-gether correct as a means of proving the Ineomo from coal mining. Y;i;;os Are Good. Last mmith, of the 6le miners employed hv the rtah Kind company, for example. J09 received betwreen $joo and K26Q for thp month; fifty-six received between '.'."a and $;:00 and thirty-three received in xctai of 300. or the BOO men, 198 or them received more than $-00 per month. A flitter who cannot muke )10 to i I-I I-I or day is not considered a very tfOOO miner. Twelve dollars a day la Just fair lay. - hUng back for a minute to the two .lap miners I mentioned before. Wo talked to them at 11 o'clock In the morning, morn-ing, and i Inquired how much coni they had g"1 ""t UP to that hour for tho day. It was t hirty-fiV tons, for which they were paid To cents a Ion. Up to 11 a. in., t ben, t heFe two men had made about ?U each. The average wage of dlg-veri dlg-veri in the Utah Fuel company's proper-i proper-i ies for the month of July, Ifll'.t, which was only a fa Ir mont h, whs SHMl.Si for every man who worked each day the mine wus running. The facts of the matter arc, as the. pay rolls will quickly demonstrate, that many of tin a miners will not work a full mouth, or anywhere near a full mouth. They can malm all they want In Leas, and they lay Off and loaf. I noticed in going over the pay rolls Hint men' .who Jmd worked a full twenty-five days during the month iftf 1800 tO $100, and some of them even higher, high enough to get into the cltfll of bank presidents' salaries. Hut an ;mui7.iimly large number were down for i . n. lift eeii or t went y dl vs In a mon h. Thftl was all Ihnv cared to work, and that was all they did work. And they lay Off, buoy season in1 slow season, without n!7erln any excuse. Try that In yocr office, If .vou dnro, Mr. White-collared Man. . i',,:l i : a .i"on:ih,e product, and governed gov-erned hj limitations of demand, Conie qucntly there are seasons who ntho do- - mnnd is heavv and seasons when the de- inand is light. It natur.illv fo.lows that in the sean of heavy demand there is more work. Hut tac coal operator is not to blame tor Ibis, nor oh he do very mueh to help It. The consumer, perhajps, Is more to blame than anyone else. Consumers to Blame. Coal dealers offer special Inducements during the summer months, trying to go: consumers to store their coal for tho coming com-ing cold months. Hut a very large portion por-tion of the consumers do not respond. The threatened coal shortage of the recent re-cent strike showed this. U was stated that ti e country's supply was estimated at thirty days. How different If everybody every-body had filled their bins last summer at the summer rates! Tlrs gives rise to the question as to why the operator! do not maintain production daring lhee slack months, store tho coal and alipose of it during the months of heavy demand. Hoonuse. uiove nil. another an-other alement, ",!t of transportation, enters en-ters Into tho matter. There are only so many coal cars, so many locomotives, BO many facilities for transporting thla product prod-uct that might possibly be stored at the , mine nd the normal demand In t he I cold months tax.-n the:..- carrteri to ihe limit and could not distribute tho surplus: Chat could have been accumulated. The only ntethOd by which this possible surplus sur-plus could be equitably hand od would be for the ultimate consumer to store till he could during the slack months. Hut be will hot do that; end It In no fault of the operator that ho will not. It Is the character 1st lc American "hand -to -mouth" plan Of ltvlpg. Would Retain Miners. But In any event, the companies do make every effort to Keep as large a force as po js'.blo during the dull season. If a man Is a good miner ana wants to Stay w in re be Is. he can get v, c. k. The companies plan to make their improvements improve-ments durl to; these jduek mouth., and they will employ t heir miners on this work to beep them from being ,u,. Qf course, thc cannot pay as high wages am they "to for mining, but a matt OftYl make a Ulug and not draw on Hie fnr-pltis fnr-pltis he could a ecu inula t o during t ho heavv months. Hut many of Uti i iovcim will no' do that . truly lea ve and .teeU other flvtdpi posa bl) go to the motalUfev oun mines or to the farms for a nirv.hor of SCTwV and $3000 and $$300 men that thos. who stay on the .Job the year o round do very well, much bettor than i heir city cousins who work with their hands. Returning now to the other compensate compensa-te :" the coal miner, lot us oxamtne his living conditions, the surroundings for ::.. ; . '.ci his family if he is a married man. Ho can live more cheaply and better than tho city man, no .matter what coal -amp in the state of ttah employ? him. Where in Salt Ijake City, for example, could he get m five-room house, with bath, toilet and running water, electrically electri-cally furnished, for $tl per month? He can do that at Mohrland or Hiawatha, two of the mines of tho United State Fuel company, for example. Ami ho can do proportionately as welt, according to tho accommodations furnished him, at1 any of the other mines. Where in Salt I.ake can the unmarried man Is at the price ot" 40 per month for hoard and t com in a thoroughly modern hotel buliditig, such as the one pictured leie" It cannot be done. Yet that is the charge, as I found tn all the camps that good board ahd room rn from $40 to $."." per month. This In well heated, well ventilated, wr'l furnished buildings. Living Costs Low. i t'asilealo t saw comfortable four-room four-room bouses renting to the miners for $tl per month. A flat rate of 2T cents per lamp was made for light, with no extra charge for the use of electric washing machines, irony or such appliances. And a lol of these folks never bother to turn oil their lights during the daytime. You can go ui and down tho streets of unv 'finp. avd ou ptoKih'x will find a majority ma-jority of i ho porch lights burning at high noon. Vl i fe simitar eondUion prevail, jvitb good four-worn houscv with Uffht rnrnisned, for or $: per month. And the new places the companies arc building build-ing are ,r concrete MooUs, most of them better than On- old frame ones, the house are nit lathed nnd p astered. with the exception of a very few of the 1 ' "' ones and all sre on good found-tl1'' found-tl1'' M v of the newo; and larger u,s'"' ' 11 of tbeat euhl-room houses, aio ejiuipppd Wlth hot-sir furnaces and good Ims, rents, the latter being A heavy 'te n oi , vP, ,,v.s xvl,n umn tn built al-UKst al-UKst upon sett,) rook. lio "l- SpMic; canyon to Stamtat d die. .tananeso rputatloa 8 .i . fully euirPW; Jv and I was toM there - s-vrttes. 'rj5 c c-io 1 ir.freoted .. It seems that ttie h" doesn't care to t"? , s way. j - ::' v'"vvi ;;V e structure, perfcajo " to twe , struct.- The 'jwjijaa b n0l;SlS built urdornesth, tne Plato, to keep the eSS t.:esFJ oti ors of his count;;. for tM - ,i't :uu1 t!5v V2ftf to vr ! '.. . OI. o ' ' '' ork. ; ... ;, .-.'. IVS ,t,o n-si, I" ,,v W 5 , i i" ,( , o rM ' '. '.omp by " , ;(J Commissaries Maij( V ,:' o ...... ... n,ls. 1 . ,.;',..! '. by ' .' .. ... " ' .. . '' - . I.los. ' : r.jtn n'oniiiuioii on i weignea incni. 111 uimci uiu.-. Law Provides Check. Here, then, was a real complaint, and so I began to investigate. I found that the state law governing coal mining specifically speci-fically states that the miners may. at their own expense, employ check weigh-men. weigh-men. who shall sit in these weighing houses and check the weights recorded by the welghmen employed by the company. I found, further, that in several instances miners had employed such check welgh- men, kept them on the Job a month or two, and then let them go. They found no serious d'screpancies in the weights, and consequently did not care to pay the expenses of maintaining the checking system. sys-tem. Yet. union or no union, the law says the miners may have a check weighman weigh-man if they want him. Since the law Is so specific on this point, and since the exper'ments In hiring check Welshmen have been abandoned by tho miners themselves them-selves when they found they were not being be-ing cheated. It does not seem reasonable to give much weight to this complaint. I feel quite certain, however, that, agitators agi-tators use this argument with the nrners. endeavoring .to force them to the belief that this is a reason for joining the union, so that check weighmen may be generally employed. it Is extremely doubtful If this would be anything but an additional and an unnecessary expense to the miners. min-ers. And. besides. If they want check welghmen they can have them, as I said, union or no union. The state of Utah provides pro-vides for that. Organization Discouraged, Now as to the other urgutnent, the grievance of McLennan arid Hie national organizers. Admittedly, the two laigesl operators in the Carbon county field do not encourage In fact discourage nffll-latlon nffll-latlon with the United Mine Workers of America. There urn union ,n",i In their mines, but the percentage probably in comparatively small, though o.x.-irt r gore; are. not obtainable. Organization work al tho properties of the Utah Fuel and tht United States Puel companies :;; carried on with a good deal of secrecy, and It Is difficult even to venture a guess as tn how far it has gone. Opera.t'.r"i if : that It might he lr to Z't v r cent. ,ij' hi-, less. At some of the ernAlter propert! 'tie union iiflriatton baa goni consider uhly further. Bui speaking generally th district. It Is true, I believe. II members of the United Mine Work era COAL MINER'S WISE IS GOOD Living Conditions in Utah Camps Found to Be Attractive. (Continued from Page 14, News Sec.) about the same as Salt Lake prices. Some things. I noted, were lower, some slightly higher. T saw some shoes that 1 know I would have paid at least J3 or S4 more for here in Salt Lake. I saw the best cuts of beefsteak and chops selling for 35 and 40 cents, and never higher than 45 cents. Those prices will speak for themselves to folks who have tried to buy sirloins and lamb chops in Salt Lake markets. And it is interesting to note that the companies cannot keep up to their demand by buying whole beeves, for example. No. they must purchase extra loins, because of the heavier demand de-mand for choice cuts! Miners in the coal camps sit down to good tables; of that I am sure. A glance at the rows of canned goods in these stores indicates that. Nothing but the best. The manager at Castle Gate told me he had a comparatively small demand for peas that he sold at 18 cents; the big demand was for the small, sifted variety at 35 cents. The miners make good money and they live well. I saw the "inakin's" for a lot of salads, for example, in these stores. Stocks are very complete everywhere ' dry goods, groceries, meat, everything, including in-cluding furniture. I went into two or three of the big warehouses, and discovered discov-ered that the usual thing in kitchen ranges is the enameled variety, a very high-class stove. And those are the kind I saw, almost without exception, in probably prob-ably a score of tho miners' homes which 1 entered. Miner Lives Well. Don't picture the miner and his family sitting down to a dilapidated four-legged table in the kitchen, with a red cloth on it. Nothing of the sort. Most of the places I saw, and most of. the stock I saw in the warehouses, had round oak tables, with the Ctnter pedestal or leg. Good oak chairs, handsome, substantial buffets or china cabinets that is the rule, and not the exception. Heat is cheap, of course. Throughout the district, coal the very best grade is delivered to the miners' homes for $2.50 per ton. less than it is sold to outsiders right at the tipple. Farmers who live . near by, and who drive their wagons to : the tipples and load their own coal, pay j 53.65 per ton for the same coal. School facilities are every bit as good as they are in any part of the state. That is a state and county matter, and any Utahn knows the character of schools maintained in this state. They are up to standard in every way at all these camps; first-class buildings and equipment equip-ment throughout; and on the whole, a mighty bright, happy lot of snowball-throwing snowball-throwing kids when I saw them. Amusements are provided in most wholesome and desirable forms. Practically Practi-cally without exception, the camps have large, commodious amusement halls, whero there are well-equipped stages, used for home-talent entertainments, school entertainments, and also for lyceum bureau attractions, which frequently fre-quently visit the camps. "Movies" every night; the identical ones Salt Lakers see, too. with prices of admission, on the general average, about one-third less. These amusement halls are all equipped with first-class dance floors, and frequent dances are given, music being furnished by orchestras orches-tras formed among the employees. These "'jorchestras. in some instances, also play '"at the motion picture shows, too. Diversions Many. Below the big halls, as a rule, there are Wardrooms for the men, prettily furnished r, rooms where the women can dab the , powder on their noses, or rest. There are ".bowling alleys, and pool and billiard yj-ooms, too. In addition, there is always a well-equipped refreshment parlor, --where everything in the soft drink and ice cream line can be obtained at very reasonable rea-sonable prices. 9l I was over at Hiawatha on Armistice x day. and the local American Legion post. d)organized among the former service men working at the mine, was putting on an -entertainment that night. "Parson" f.Sirnpkin of Salt Lake was the speaker. j,and there was an excellent program of .entertainment, in addition to the parson's rousing patriotic talk. There are many nationalities, of course, jn these camps, and those men especially .irevho do not speak our language prefer to be among their own kind. Consequently, Conse-quently, one finds groups, both in the matter of houses and in rooming places for single men. There are quarters for the Greeks, the Italians, the Austrians, the Japanese, the Americans, the Serbians, Ser-bians, the negroes, and so on through a long list. Somewhere near most of the camps baseball diamonds may be found, and there is a league among the coal camps, providing some lively sport of this sort during the summer months. Kvery camp, of course, has an emergency emer-gency hospital, with a competent physician physi-cian and surgeon In attendance. The physicians look after the health not only of the miners, but of their families, and the monthly assessment upon the men is only fl. For this they get ordinary medical medi-cal attention for themselves and their families, only such items as operations and the like being extra. Accidents, of course, are all taken care of without charge to the victims, no matter how serious or how slight. Health Well Guarded. Sanitation Ifl looked after by these medical men and by the company officials. offi-cials. Garbage disposal systems are Installed, In-stalled, In some Instances there being no charge for parbbage collection, and In others a charge of 50 cents or SI Mr month Is made. Salt Lake could take lessons from these coal camps In the matter mat-ter of the neatness of back yards und back porches. Conditions inside the mines ar also excellent. The main tunnels are all electrically elec-trically lighted, and In some places they are whitewashed to Increase the light. Gigantic fans drive in enormous quantities quanti-ties of puro mountain air, and pull out just as large quantities Of used air. It Is safe to venture that the air In the average aver-age mine is as good as It Is in tho average aver-age home or office hero In Salt Iake. Coal dust Is practically a thing of the past, and statistics from the Utah mln s show that accidents from this source are extremely rare Indeed. Water Is piped into the mines and the coal is uprayed, so that all dust Is settled. The most modern equipment in the lareer mines provides entirelv for :i v- ten of electric hlnstlnff, and the result Is hOWfl by tho fad that in the yrar endod July J, 10IR, there was only one deuth from blasting in Utah's coal tnlne; tbt where the old syHtrm etill was In vopue. Tn the mines where electric Malting ll NMd exclusively there Is not a living BOUl Inside the portals when the shots aro tlrerl. Kvery man is checked out and every shot Inspected by experts before the hlastlng takes place. Precautions Many. Mine rescue cars sent out by the tinitod Btatee bureau of nlnea pay fre-'iio'iit fre-'iio'iit visits to tbeee catnpe and drill employee! in all Itret aid work. There are expert first aid teams, wblcta hold frequent fre-quent competitive drlJUe; and within the mincH. at Intervals, are woll-SQulpped drat aid itatlons, with etretcheji equip" ment, blankets, all eorti of patches and bandagei and the liks everyt hing, in fact, to K've prompt attention tO almost any wort of an injury until a doctor may be lummoned or the vI6tlm removed to B hospital. With men trained In Arsl aid work working right in the mines, it la certain that the victim of an accldtOl win get Immediate and Intelligent flret aid treatment, to pe followed by the ttten- liou of a physl'dnn and prompt n-movHl to a Knit hake hoHpilal If th- cnno In Bufldentiy eeriouii Tho nv. raiiM iulprneiit of a miner, his tooln, cost" f 25 to $;in. Including all ho require for any nrt of work. Ills tOOli sre kept in oondll Ion, ploke sharpened, and the like, at the expense of the coin- pany In ii own ihopai He buyi hie powder pow-der for blaMtiriK from the company nt . onuldernhly lemi than tho pre Bent COBti a t prewe r prioee Powder never would averan''. lf "nld, more than per day. .nd very often leas The oompanlee itand the loei on powder themeelvee, and nr-n it to the mlnem at the wludeHale price thai prevailed bsfore the war. londitions Attractive. The i-oiil inlnrr, then, linn cheiioi r IIvIhk Mum hl city frl"inl, ho hnn wholrnome iirmmoinoul provldod In various forrnn; ho enjoys on hie table and elsewhere many Oj III" lUXUHvS oCJJfe; Ire llVofl III Clean, pany ieo plants; phn pctn her coal at low than cost, delivered to her coal Mn; she has n.unlnj; water, electric light and a aunny, airy homo. There is no ijncstlon but thst the steady worker can make btf money, and should be ahlc to save a considerable DOT Hon of It. In fact, havlnc been ihrouch those camps, l cannot help hut wonder why some of the young men In cities who are lahorluR hard every day to make a bare living do not go down to these coal camps and replace tho foreign -born agitators who. It seems to me, are the only ones to disturb the smooth and peaceful operation of ono of our great Utah industries well-bulti houees; In many Inetancai ho has his own oar In hi" own garage , he works under condition! Where evsry pn-cAution pn-cAution is token for nil afetty and where Everything poaalbla la dona Tor him if he in nn unrortunfite ns t meet with an accident, either throuffh his own aareleM i nesa or otherwlss. ills children have good BchOOlV) fresh mountalo air to breathe and the visual supply of Ice crea m suda and othsr fcweetit Hie wife can buy her In use hold goods at prices en. nail y good aa those In Ball Laxet in aumraor aha hsa nil the tee the n is fean tne com |