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Show Will You Help These ' Fatherless Children? r ii i - 1 1 it ' 1 ' Castle Gate Mine Dependents Need Financial Assistance Subscriptions should be sent to any county chairman or to any bank in the state. It is imperative to act now. $100,000 fund needed. State-wide machinery hat been set in motion for raising a fund of $100,000 for relief of the stricken dependents of miners who lost their lives in the recent Castlegate mine disaster. A ways and means committee has been organized under the chairmanship of E. O. Howard How-ard of Salt Lake City, president of Walker Brothers Bankers, and with D. C. Green, general manager of the Utah Power & Light company, com-pany, as vice-chairman and John C. Cutler, president of the Deseret N-.tional Bank, treasurer, and J. H. Rayburn, general secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, secretary. County chairmen have been named as follows: J. F. Tolton, Beaver; J. G. Wheatley, Boxelder; H. E. Hatch, Cache; Carl R. Marcusen, Carbon; M. L. Larson, Daggett; Robert Miller, Davis; Robert Potter, Duchesne; Henry Thompson, Emery; H. C. Tebbs, Garfield; H. W. Balsley, Grand; Wilford Day, Iron; J. W. Bond, Juab (East); Walter Fitch, Sr., Juab (West); William Seegmiller, Kane; W. A. Robertson, Millard; J. A. Anderson, Morgan; Mor-gan; Charles Merrill, Piute; Charles W. Walton, Rich; A. B. Hammond, Ham-mond, San Juan; H. F. Dicke, Salt Lake; L. R. Anderson, Sanpete; R. D. Young, 8evier; M. C. Taylor, Summit; Peter Clegg, Tooele; Thomas W. O'Donnell, Uintah; J. Will Knight, Utah; J. W. Clyde, Wasatch; Ed. H. Snow, Washington; Guy Evans, Wayne; and A. P. Blgelow, Weber. Mr. Howard, general chairman, has issued the following appeal to the people of Utah: "The purpose of this fund will be to take care of cases requiring pedal attention. Under the compensation act, the Utah Fuel company com-pany will pay f 16 per week for 312 weeks to each man's dependents, irrespective of the number of dependents in each family. This compensation com-pensation act is sufficient coverage for protection in an ordinary catastrophe, but not where the entire community is affected such as in the Castlegate disaster. The law does not take care of specific instances where there are several members of a family, and investigation investi-gation shows that at least 50 per cent of the bereaved families have more than five dependents, and in many cases there are as many as eleven dependents. These children face the future without adequate resources for their protection and sustenance. As Governor Mabey has declared in his proclamation, 'it is apparent that there is a crying need for help among these women and children, living victims of the terrible disaster.' ' 'An appeal to the people of Utah lor relief is absolutely necessary. neces-sary. To alleviate the suffering is the only human thing to do. We respectfully urge that the citizens support this movement, and send subscriptions immediately to the chairmen of the various county organizations, or to any bank in the state. The ways and means committee is charged with the responsibility of raising the funds, and a trust committee which has been appointed by the governor will direct the disbursement. At this time we are not making any special appeal to other states, but subscriptions from such states will be accepted. As the people of Utah are well aware, this disastrous explosion ex-plosion resulted in the untimely death of 173 miners, leaving 113 widows, and. 266 minor children fatherless." In addition to a wire to each county chairman notifying him of his appointment, a letter was sent out under the signature of Governor Gover-nor Mabey and Mr. Howard under date of March 26th, as follow: "Following a careful investigation of the situation at the Castlegate Castle-gate catastrophe I issued a proclamation, a copy of which is attached hereto. This survey was made by a committee composed of Mr. Imer Pett, chairman; Mr. F. E. Hansen, Mr. Darrel T. Lane, Mrs. C. H. Stevonson, and Mr. Carl Marcusen. The report was in detail and I am having run off for you, copies of the report so that you can be fully advised and in turn let the people in your county know the exact status of the situation. "As you already know, the resolution of the committee's. investigation investi-gation points to the need of a fund to take care of the dependents who will require attention in addition to the compensation allowed under the law, namely $5,000 to a man's dependents, payable $16.00 per week. Newspapets throughout the state and country at large have carried the details of this sad accident, and it appears to be the ?;eneral concensus of opinion that steps should be taken to raise the iind of $100,000. We respectfully urge that you use every means possible to raise the quota for your county. The Red Cross chapter, church societies, fraternal and commercial organizations should be called upon by you to supply the necessary machinery to raise the fund. Without delay, please appoint vice-chairmen to take charge of the various cities, towns and sections of your county. You have many good men and women available for this work. "Posters that will serve to call the attention of your people to this campaign are being mailed t you under separate cover. Will you please see that they are distributed and prominently displayed. The Boy Scouts organizations, we believe, can be depended upon to make the distribution. As you have been previously advised, Mr. John C. Cutler, president of the Deseret National Bank is treasurer. All banks are authorized to receive subscriptions to the fund. "It is needless, we feel sure, to urge that necessity demands prompt response in this, emergency and we hope that the good people of your county will respond generously." Frank B. Cook, president of the Columbia Trust Company of Salt Lake City and president of the Utah State Bankers' Association, sent the following letter to all members of the bankers association: "Several weeks ago the people of the state were stunned with the realization of what the Castlegate mine catastrophe meant, not only to the coal industry, but particularly to the dependents of those men who so valiantly gave their lives in performance of their duty. "Governor Charles R. Mabey has, within the past few days, issued a proclamation calling upon the people of Utah to subscribe to a trust fund of $K)0,000 for the dependents of the 173 men who were lost. This is not an exhorbitant amount to ask of the people of the state. The Utah Fuel company which owns and operates No. 2 mine at Castlegate, the scene of this catastrophe, is meeting its obligations without hesitancy, but as you will realize the amount of compensation provided under the law ($5,000) is not commensurate, commensu-rate, in all cases, to take care of the dependent families of the men who were killed. The amount of $5,000 is paid on a basis of $16 per week. "A state committee has been organized by Governor Mabey. A campaign to raise the fund is now under way. The Governor and the committee request all the banks of the state to receive subscriptions subscrip-tions for this fund. In so doing will you keep 'an account of the names, addresses and amounts of all who subscribe to this fund. The temporary treasurer is John C. Cutler of the Deseret National Bank of this city. Will you please advise Mr. Cutler the amount on hand for this fund as of April 1st." Members of the ways and means committee are E. O. Howard, D. C. Green, Edward E. Jenkins, A. G. Mackenzie, John C. Howard, Mrs. Frank P. Stewart, J. H. Rayburn, Bishop Joseph S. Glass, A. W. Ivins, Ross Beason, J. D. Stack, S. G. Dye, G. L. Becker, J. T. Fairer, C. P. Cardon, Mrs. Jeanette A. Hyde, Mrs. W. Mont Ferry, L. F. Rains, Moroni Heiner, Herbert Auerbach and Walter Fitch, Sr. The trust committee which will disburse the funds will consist of the three members of the state industrial commission, a representative represen-tative of the Utah Fuel company, a member of the board of county commissioners of Carbon county, a representative of the Carbon county chapter of the American Red Cross and three representatives to be chosen by the governor from the state at large. |