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Show nent disability while the rest are of a temporary nature. '". " of the life. Yet how impoverished impover-ished this country would be without them. We extend to our Governor Mabey a hearty handshake, who after visiting the scene of this frightful disaster disas-ter advocated a revision of the State laws and said "The compensation com-pensation law does not take into consideration whether there is a dozen dependents in fiixing .compensation, but all receive only on-ly $16.00 a week for 312 weeks. This was believed to be adequate ade-quate to care for some cases but others where eleven dependents had been left, I do not believe it will be sufficient." F. M. McShane, Chairman of the State Industrial Commission after visiting the scene says : "Too much credit cannot be given the Utah Fuel Company for the manner in which it is handling affairs. "Its decision to accept liability and pay compensation claims as well as wages to dependents of dead miners the minute dependency depen-dency is established is one of the most creditable stands ever noted. not-ed. "The company has a right from examples to hold up back wages until estates have been administered but the company is proceeding at once to pay back wages and in a score of other ways is evidencing desire to waive all legal points and get the relief where it is needed." The whole of this State owes the dependents of these men a debt. How can it be' paid and repaid bigger heads will have to decide. Let us remember with gratitude grati-tude what these noble men, who have paid with their lives have done for us, and if possible let us give as in the warring days "until it hurts." Thousands of dollars have already al-ready been subscribed to help people in the Far East. Charity begins at home the people of Castle Gate need our deepest sympathy and dollars. Let's show them what Bingham can do. According to the report of the United States Department of the Interior coal mine accidents in the United States number about 200,090 a year, about 4,000 of these accidents result in death About 10,000 result in perma- EDITORIAL TODAY UTAH MOURNS Today, the people of Bingham and of the State and Nation, mourn at the appalling loss of , life in the terriple disaster at the Utah Fuel's No. 2 mine in Castle Gate, where presumably ; the whole shift comprising 175 men have been blown practic- " ally to pieces, in one of the worst explosions that have happened in the history of .the State. There is an aptitude for some people who have never lived or worked in a mining community to underrate the value and character char-acter of miner. Yet these men give much to humanity. Their hazardous oc- cupation subjects them to danger, dan-ger, privation and misfortune. Any miner engaged in the coal , mining industry or even quartz ; mining are responsive to the best. They see the rigorous side |
