Show PEN PICTURES I TURES OF Or A RICH COAL rU JJ E BELGIAN I BLACK CO UN 1 RY REGION BY LARGELY WOMEN WORKED t r N JF Ir I 1 or of the lite DesereE News Newa b by Fani G C I Wit Dec 19 heart eart or of f ona on the l tit In I 1 am om richest coal mining minim of fit f Europe Ith Wf about on ue t dalto the ther y IS Indiana but It ha hn 0 of r I e of or Doni and nd irot I ron lIS hum like a b be co cos make It fl Which workshop ullon bu It Is I s hire and It t supports I IA mile II a III tie the to the AI A I r rIO e the Ille worM world Its 11 of t any r 22 tour tons Counts amounts t l or of cal 1 S 1 part of or this 1 a aF 1 t F n nII ter 11 II um amts fuel ruel from Gerr r rhome and d AI also O Imports tin the pea l home and At present p t England a many and Ute the United State k n nI to 0 are ale manufacture I source oure of or II as a P yet come coma when the day may Wi and an d U bo be nin h err re 1111 I rte h e ci the Unit States ShUns h 11 real oai from thou coUNTRY OP OIn DM ni II r I OIL Mi I IThe art mining JOining Belgium The from those of or out our entirely I our lur mines JOines are arc near neal the I 10 sur surface ur coats but t little to get tho the IU It h an and face tace Those of or Belgium arc aro the thc rare ars coal to under the earth and nn every overy tar far down d by machinery to tho the thoom to be lifted Ion of ur Hi the t mines will which II c cu ct I 1 I IT Ir u r om uror half halt mile T t AVay are e more than a n visited Is e at al iS eTh The Th sat tH r hn has to 10 he be fought 1 deep uren and mighty pumps pumps are ItIC em y turn tu m em There Thore keep Hi th the works woks II or I I dry 1 r J o Id a to Cutting rutting cutting the earth this tills way 1 arc r tunnels tunnel Sat at al a n depth aith of or 2000 feet Over and d that toe the whole tunnels them are arc rc o hr is a 11 tata catacomb made by get c s The mitten hao haV lo to loThe tobe lale the tta COI out cut I lUg rf The wood In la cut from le be by but the m most of or o ob t It ItI l t the forests thick end and as It Itc six b I sot not o ot r It looks like tele telo the to comes c lDes tapering ng each 60 40 feet teet long lung taper graph fo to 10 I a point roles poles at the end Such uch timber each mine stacks about i In treat It 1 U la unleaded from the tho cars by b women BO handle the poles like so eo ninny many mon k ELG taI 4 COAL coal region Is la far tar different from toe those of oC Pennsylvania Ohio or Tonnes see aee ee There ThEle It IB 18 I mountainous Here at Wham Dairies es the land Is lint and the only are ale trout from the Iho dumps of or t till the e mines Time Till cord coal here Is filled with waste It has hue to be stored storell and tho the refuse I Is curried out upon cars lurs There Is li jo mo much of or It that a pyramidal al almo mountain mo lOon oon rises up beside each ench Mainline out like lIko a n black cone the blue glue sky ky There are all such ouch Hu h everywhere In this part o of Some of or them are dead the tIA trines mines which produced ed them heln having ken been worked out and abandoned Others have ladders up their backs bucks and a n framework on the tho top where women push posh te cars along and with n II rattling sound lound em t them Some of or these py pyramids are smoking There much sulphur In time the coal and amt spontaneous combustion often otten starts n a Ire fire nr which buret bulD on for years Instances Instance am semi known of or people eople going to sleep Bleep on the dumps dump and being suffocated by IJ tin the fumes fumei and gases Rase ga TaKe your our stand with me on one of nt tk se roal coal mountains just outside the mining town lon of or WAsmes and pale look ru u H I Ho the farms covered with Ith 1111 tilh crept I l I coal roal mounds s riM riMIng Ins Ing abo r them There is one ore at nt tir mr right with great bags bagn crawling over It IL Tak Tali your field gloss glass and look Jook at III them horn They are lire not 1101 bags bag They ar III women Omen who ho ate are a e puuing up 1111 the coal con that thai has b ben i n left In the time waste There rimes cameo a u ar ulong Meng the coal mountain Tuo To Women omin are pushing It And with the tit glss gla y U iu can almost see aeo their mu at as n with bare arms they c ca rut t I II it on In th ha dump N S w rook it t I that mound at the left It I le 1 of ot f fret rt high hl l and the about It it In la l an nn evidence of or the waste that the miners have to o t with I H I Every iery bit of coal coil that U n brought 1 to the tho surface has to be bo pi ra rin ma mid the tho waste Is evidently m lOtI than i 1 tit Hi h rat mai Itself r nj rl r nil you SC see the hi 1 0 of flIP coal coni workers They uro n n not unlike th of if the United but th Ih s srn anes a about them are differ Pat AND ANn mACK BLACK DIA DJA DIAMONDS DIAMONDS MONDS In n the Ih States the thc work Is ls III 1 mt Here must most of or the babor arr tn n ls Is Performed by r wot won And AM such women Lusty Lust LustIA IA young of ot tent film 10 IC to 20 Pretty rosy rOMY roped mund 10 armed and stud I with faces Inc f smutty with coal roal dust but the soma mino time tints comely omel Their oyen are bright h t and ond their beauty Is accentuated by h the thc opal dust on their tacos which tho the ml red forth III Biro that of the stark dark moss mimosa rose ruse They are very von tiger laes set Hot In u n background back Jack background ground of or block black diamonds diamond Como Cumo l omo with mo me lot let us liS visit one of the tho mines We enter the great works there the tho th mighty might shaft I h jerking up ug and down raising the Ilia coal to the sur stir surface taco face At the mouth of the Iho opening stand a II half haIr dozen of or those thOM their heads clone Jana up In blue and white while handkerchief turbans theist thelt th lr sleeves rolled ur tip high above n the eibo vs and their shapely ankle imIde plainly show shew showing big ing In between the thu ends enas of their th lr skirts skirls and their white wooden clogs cl gs See them grasp that car as ns the time engine stops slops and shove If I l over 0 vo tile file to where It Is to tobo tobe bo ho dumped for t r tile sorters AH As they thu doso do ilo so another Rant pang of or girls takes talles their places In to handle time the next ear and others shoot the empties buck back to tho the other othol side elde of nr the time There Is no fooling about this The 1111 omen work lute like bees hees anti and 1111 1 with the Ih strength of horses horse s They The do more moro than the tho men nten anti and they the nee nm am ant told more In to their thel work ROUTING COAL CO Leave tho the shaft nut with me mo to tho time The wont roal rolls a chute chUle Into tile the cars carl Women stand at the side sille of ot the th o chute chule and ai a t rd help h lp p It with hooe hose Girls of utU U ii to sit further down the refuse and slate out of or tho time coal coni with theIr hands Still further bother on there thero arc more turbaned sooty and dirty working away awny 1111 ns as fast tast as us their lingers fingers cnn can move anti in the tile car cm H It Itself elt women hoeing the coal this way In w and that sort sortIng sortIng Ing Ins the waste All 11 the work Is III done bythe by bythe the piece tine the girls are paid In pro proportion proportion portion to the amount t they I asked as nil to the wages agea and vas vall told loll that the rate Is lo 2 cents a n basket and that the JeSt best workers wm kers can pick about u a basket and n 1 halt hoH every hour thus lime earning ns oa much ns os 30 tents fonts In their day of 12 hours o ors AMONG A mm THE WO IE MINERS And still I the mho women miners of or Del BoJ glum Blum n are o far better oft today than Ihan they have ever been blen In III the past Their Timely condi condl condition Lion tion has hos been JOI notoriously bad for n 1 long little Utile children were employ employed ed In III tho the mines mimics They Illey were ere harnessed ld to carts nod coal coni cars with straps and chains so that they crawled along on ohm their hands hando and knees dragging the coal coni to the th mouth of r the Cite shaft shutt Now women under 21 are arc prohibited by b law luw from working ng underground and hence those hose whom you see seo on the surface sire lire vatic girls They could get Iet better b cages down below anti and ninny many of 01 thorn them thornwill will VIII leave ene the surface and go In Into ino I to o the Iho mines mIncH as soon as liS they ON hough enough Aft Al a u result the surface girls furls are not liot bent tent and anti those I rd rt Vr I I Pretty Girls Who Act As Look Tiger Lilies Set in Black Low Wages and Long Hours Girls Who Pick Coal ConI For Thirty Cents a Day Belgian Labor Associations and How the Government Helps Them How the Miners Live Little Big Drink Bill and Its BeeHive Bee of Europe Chances to Sell American Coal Cant Cantu u n 1 I IH H lH Hl Hll H HI HH l 1 J 1 iA V tl I H I v r I I If 1 f i f I II if i ir y Ii I r 1 r I lIn lInI I r I 0 J I Il th l i H V I r k r i I I t tk t f ft 1 4 if r 1 I t f 1 t ty t i a aI y I 1 y I I I IT y X 1 I 11 t T r t tt 1 t I I I t t tt rj Ii i J I I r wl d I IR I R h ht hI 1 1 t I t t I t 1 rN u r fret J I I w M a r fI I f w r 1 ti u uw uM ur ua fI f I I p a Y Yr J t A n i ay r rK r iy to I I Jt I 1 Y Ii K t f e et r t Phot lital graphed for far the Deseret l News by Frank 0 O Carpenter Carpnter r II I H H r H Hi h I hMM i I BELGIUM GIRLS LOADING BRICKS as well developed physically ns liS the Iho prize golf sull girls of the United States And still alii I they th were wert tolling toiling like like HO so ninny many horses pushing the tain 1111 way and that Some were lifting great reat lumps of coal Weighing wol Ir t o in 20 o pounds each cacti IIII others other erv doing all sorts i of M work which In America would be belone bedone shone lone by b men omen In onca tm place a n ditch iwas being dug brick and cement c ment A n if 15 n u ts I tho time with witha a hoe hoc ho and a little further do At at t a n brick sturdy I gills were ere loading bricks upon a n wlm which inch a 1 fourth girl pushed upon the par nr when ivas i vas ot full fail They Tho were working wo hard anti and the perspiration stood nut lu t In white while vends beads upon their dusty ferns foe Rep cs I took a photograph of them and anti my haart hoart he rt came tamo Into mv throat aa as they the smiled milled till II Id S IN I have that the time w m n 11 who sort orl the coal earn about 30 20 cents wits a diy day dayi gome i Ume l got get less lew but iw of others other who ubo millet ns as much must ns as IS n t tend nil ml In hY the mints they are 11 paid as snit high as us 15 afi rents Men Alen miners g got get t 79 or SO cents under A AAA and about abot SO vO cents nt at tile the our Jur foe face Boys BOYI of 14 B 1 and 15 ate aro t 1 paid ald 10 It a 2 cents COltts children t W 20 O remits cents em II anti and upward Altogether there thelt are ar II l In i and of th theist m all 1 I 10 per cent ent make malIc a dol 1101 dollar lar Int a II slat lIar still the Belgian working sty diy averages from 10 to 12 hours od 01 tie tea It 0 A Ki of or working days tiny PI ev rv ye I Is L thun low JIW wigo IVO 1111 n tl 0 t jl iw the rule rids Thre we me I 11 working people Illo tarp Juno and n of or these work wok 10 JO 11 or moro J A v hours hour per day Of ot all ih nth ono one fourth melee mak less lew than 41 1st c r nt Ills me rr put day from rom lu to u a w 61 tats t lILt and an another another other fourth Horn from 70 0 to tu so HO cents tenta pen pei diem WOMANS WOMA H AND Women ur art everywhere c paid ld 1 J Iss so I than the UI me mI met i and about half halt of f I th lb frill f remit lit workers worker test less than Ihan 30 JO e I R n 1 dj sUt while wllIe In tilt nIl whole hole 1 w holt country of than thur six lx huff half ill um art are I Ionly only nom arn n u yet 1 u Il us mUth moult liS at i M O c o ter tera a 1 day Amors Amot Amer I g tit tin Ii I tit ar art II thrice e s Ito lui a iK 1 In tit Ih mines mammies 10 sn oil 1 IM Iv t hind hard anI end il 01 I cm 11 td 11 Ing I It If V b I i r V u Ui l u w 1 a 1 tl II U it itt t i t a u i aft t a s i t tI i t n li ni I i b sod luti n 11 tin II I i Ii t 1 t s j them arin v I h i Ili u ih th h y I IH i iI I tie H bobber better ii tit ni s tit tin h II i s a In l t ill 01 t uki ii which woe wot t K lih III hn ii u r nd i v h i ti It I j jin in the inti ih th i 1 No L i t i 10 ill n M 1 i 1 in i n L if r gl I Ig 00 1 II Hill iI 1 i IlU 1 In I rom mine perte i h I M h i l u q I tu th ell f f tilt mitt c e cuira came uira MINI i un unI I hays hav l I n ti i vt t i l in III n th the life of at the tho n l t i i i 1 t hll ha i s q sd d h h tl II I ii t n D s II fl Mi i I TI n TIr tr f r filth ta tM l 1 li I I Ie bulit ull tK till lit til 1111 in lii blue bluett t r i 1 in Ii u h hl i live 1111 ion Io two to on OR tit thi PI rl w U I l r I t r 10 o Rb abs 1 1 Is little IItti nt rat I li I u Ii I i r Ii h rn rP n Ti Tim f I i 11 i a lIta a al i li 11 I i i s r sum l r of ot s in I I I 1 i IN IZ ii n arn t In n Tut Ter 11 M n 1 M i dj i 1 rr i lr r NI ni very retry ry iiii o II i I i i t I t r i d f 1 Sl li m w 1 tj t S tar Sar ar ar h flir lor r hI hs his I s s I 1111 it mily ifill the f w M MIn cave 1111 y t I n e sirs g d I In lu I lIi ii tun every Ih third rd hOIl in is I a v 1 l 1 n I 1 In he of 01 tin Ih tini i gu tW Ii lil I i 1 Ill hi drink Alcohol and H 11 lit 0 u ih II Ink as a well A oil ue u uthe the II men spends i r than eight cl lit times wi as much mu 11 for liquor as 8 It does for lor arM sni ItI It its annual 4 Link hili bill in ii II about JJ ty Ir her r head or US p per r family I Itin tin ale at al the Ihl somber of They air known n es and you 01 see sec 5 them tb e There Is I hardly a In the h city it without o 0 or more niece and they are scattered alone alon tile the country roads road There me more than In III Heli and amid it itIs IH Is said nad that one person In every enl 30 31 of lit mil the whole population is JI employed in to silting intoxicating drinks Many of ot the th get drunk on ou Satin day and lay la oft off over Munday Monday similar conditions prevail In England I where drunkenness 1 Is II If IC anything worse than here hore ASSOCIATIONS There Thre lilt are H n 1 number of ot n in Belgium 1 rile Tho men have havo ha 0 their Ih lr mud and their I There la Is wie Otte kind of known as III which witch hUH has over cici aft 1111 thousand m im libbers fliers arc aie for Ol mutual h hII Ip HI eu n funned that the C i ith other ether In III braes ut of if trouble Ii att nd iste end and Such things thinKs Musty of the t hl anxieties are aie II n protected 1 b h limy tit tin an l I tu to some lmH the sumo gives inel i acing their funds III I i n i s nr dim ill II al ul i cud and sup part m in 11 tins ti n o of I The Ihl Bo rn ment rent nm now a my hUt has it tar Cm such ing IlIr ni a n ii ni ut 1 sixty wh hii newl neat them th lII und stud also ulMo aeao Ii In Insure sure lire ill III Ilves of u men nen nt at low Iov rates has a 11 mini M n of and lain lal ial i r leas hOll IK t si d 11 to I n nn three Is III oleo uh t H Iv Known i i h I ft i t III in i ii N i St lId i i ear itle I l illin lh um for tor ii I i to tont toI I nt mil Thin council Is III composed of ot n a i n II cud I n t It is II said ild ald to i of great ahll to tu In The Tho go got nr err bi bit i um more i timid n nd mot i II ituna In of r the Hie IheI I n This Ih fh aie uP taking tit klu g the Je pure o i 1 e i f to tit tin people Mini and to hi h 1 be tu tit i th this iu In III a u of ot I wayn wain In Ik Mum lit the haw has erect erected erected ed Id d toi Ius In III certain II and has hall MI sti t that they can buy them th m on easy AI terms term It U Is I helping the fanning interests by 1 1 schools of 01 agriculture and nud through Its service is la reducing le freights |