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Show College of Eastern Utah s" Now Training Miners The liH'chani.ntion of coal mining operalions, Ihe Mine Safely Act of l'.li;!) and tin increasing in-creasing demand for coal miners are all serving to emphasize em-phasize the roll of College of Enslem IM ah as a center for mine training. lrel I.ongliurst, head of 11 10 CKU trade and leehnical division, di-vision, says he has had requests re-quests lor trained men from Wyoming and Canada as well as from local mines. He says classes are now being taught in mine mechanics, mech-anics, mine electricity and for mine foremen. Funds for classes come from the federal government through the Manpower Training and Development De-velopment Act. Two sections of the mine mechanics classes, each with 20 men, is being taught. Both groups meet for eight hours a day, the first section sec-tion from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. The second is from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. Preference is given to men who are unemployed or under un-der employed, although others oth-ers may take the class. None of the mine mechanics students stu-dents have worked a mine. The course of study includes elecfrlcity, hydraulics, welding, weld-ing, operation of mining machinery, ma-chinery, and other subjects. "Men completing this course will probably be cm-ployed cm-ployed as beginning mine mechanics repairing mine machinery", Longhurst said. Five classes in mine electricity elec-tricity are now being taught, two at Dragerton, two at Price and one in Castle Dale Longhurst said. These men jneet fur six hours per week. Most of them are employed in mines but must pass a test that will be given by the state sta-te industrial commission to qualify as mine electricians. The work of electricians includes in-cludes repair of electrical equipment .setting up and moving of electrical lines and similar duties. Men who want to qualify as mine foremen, fire bosses or shot firers are enrolled in classes being held at both Dragerton and Price. Longhurst says there is a slrong demand for mine foremen and lfiO will have been trained in the year ending end-ing in March PJ72. The Mine Health and Safety Act of I!)fi9 gives added qualifica-lions qualifica-lions to any man who is responsible re-sponsible for the tiiifety of other men in the mine. Fire bosses, who inspect the mine to determine it: safety and the shot firers who handle explosives, lake essentially es-sentially the same course as foremen. At the end of the training the foremen must pans a regorous three day test. The shot firers muat pass a one day of the test and the fire boss two days of the tent. |
