Show FOR OF aa english scheme to provide for the friends of men killed in mines the unsettled habits of american miners a bar to toe plan in this country some measure must be adopted that will insure their fam I 1 es against want notwithstanding that more means for re ealing accidents in mines are all the while being devised alio oc currence of this class of casualties seems to be AS frequent as ever alia is not perli aps the case there being of course constant increase in tl e number of men employed aall is busi ness but even in tl is view of the sub eject tl ese accidents ire ill to frequent suggesting that suitable meas ires be taken tor mitigating tl 11 consequences as fir as mat be bince w c cannot pre vent the matier from being disabled ind sometimes killed we should devise some plin whereby de pendent on 1 is libor for support would not in case of disaster be left wholly destitute A bill having been introduced into the british house of commons des agn ed to make alie insurance of the acot tun miners comi ulsery the expediency of extending this rule to tl e anglish miners as well Is now being discussed in that branch of I 1 ment 1 his bill provides ali tt tl e ow ner or lessor of alie mine shall contribute a small sum on its annual output and the miners them selves from two to four cents of their weekly earnings to constitute a fund out of which a weekly allowance shall be made for the support of bis family in tl e event of the miner being tl rough accident killed or disabled alile at work 1 or enforcing the law and look ing after this fund d board of manage ment is appointed tl e miners mine ow ners and the inspector of mines for the district being aci resented on tins board so what extent any such arenge ment would in alis country be irac or desirable becomes i question the conditions here being so unlike t at prevail in older countries in tl e latter tl e miners are less migra tory tl an they are apt to be with us tho most of them following no pursuit and si ending lives in tl e district wl ere they die born I 1 til g so permanent and baui d to 11 e i klibor ul ibor hood by the lies of family and kindick these men would be much more likely to consent to the payment of a small weekly stipend for 11 e i uri ose named than w miners in tl e united who more widely scattered and drift ing from 1 ice to aiice could have no shiely that tl 0 of tl is fund would to them in cise of accident it was tie unsettled habits i of tins class eliat i re vented tl air ever combining into a stable u d effective union such is 1 is been most other guilds in tl is co antry lut tins is an evil 11 at steadily ends to correct itself our miners even on this coast alere aliis has been most manifest ire every ear g more and boic rued accord self tini loi ing fields 1 narrowed and tl c life of 11 held it fewer ai d fewer it might be to frame a law to the end here concemi and tl e provis ions of winch would be acccia table to those intended intend td to be benefited tl cereby it would bo well for the newspaper press to discuss this matter in the hope tl at such suitable plan be as would before tl e next ses sion of our bbate I 1 commend itself to both the mining and tl e gen oral 1 lublic M ng a J i ie priss |