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Show EDUCATE MINERS FOB EMERGENCY Plans Completed for Big Safety-First Meet to Be Held in Pittsburg. . The United States bureau of mines, ever since its inception, has been training the miners of the country in the use of breathing apparatus for mine rescue work and in the methods of giving first aid to the injured. Rescue cars have been built, equipped with everything needed for res- I cue and recovery work after mine disasters, dis-asters, and are manned by a crew of expert ex-pert miners trained in such work. While there are now ten of these cars ready to go at a moment's notice to' any mine disaster dis-aster where they are needed, one of their most important functions is as traveling schools. One of these cars will go to a mining town for a week or two, and instruction in-struction in first-aid and mine rescue work will be given to the miners; then the car will be sent to another town. Thousands and thousands of miners throughout the country have been trained in this way by the bureau of mines. The benefits of this training are more extensive exten-sive than is at first apparent. Not only 1 has the miner learned how to help his I comrades who may be injured, but he has become a more careful miner himself, j He has not only learned the causes of the : injuries he has been taught to treat, , but, in addition, that the prevention of j accidents is of far greater value than the ability to treat tho injured. His training has been a real education, for I it has led him out into a wider field of I thought and usefulness. There can be no question of the educative value of first-aid first-aid and mine rescue training, or that eueh training has been a great factor in the "safety-first" movement. Now, as a climax to practically ten years of safety work among the miners of the United States, a great national safety-first meet is to he held at Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, Pa., during the week of September 20 in connection with the formal dedication dedica-tion of the bureau of mines' new million-dollar million-dollar laboratories and workshlps. Contests Con-tests in first aid to the injured and rescue work will be held at Forbes field, Pittsburg's Pitts-burg's great baseball park. Teams from 'all parts of the country will compete for prizes, inasmuch as the contests are open to all teams from the mining and metallurgical metal-lurgical industries of the United States. The last national safety-first meeting was held in 1011, when the safety work of the bureau had barely started, but there were more than 18,000 miners present. One Of the interesting demonstrations at that time was the coal dust explosion in a large steel gallery at Forbes field. This year coal dust explosions in a real mine will be staged for the benefit of the visitors at the experimental mine of the bureau at Bruceton, Pa., twelve miles from Pittsburg. Alaska Railroad Record. |