Show DA modern industrial workman gets paid well enjoys life J 4 2 E J 01 IT F az liucc 1 1 t t 4 61 1 4 4 FOURTH of the worlds sulphur used for everything from automobiles and weed killers to xylophones and rubber boots comes I 1 rom limestone de os SW bif its far beneath coastal plains of ny texas and Louisi ands delta forking on the surface sulphur miners like other U S industrial workers benefit from exemplary labor conditions this years labor day finds the typical operator punch ing cr time clock right working r 4 I 1 40 hours a week and earning an 1 4 average of 86 cents an hour awen ty years ago the same job paid 35 cents an hour 70 hours a week this launch carries workers 10 miles through a canal from louisianan Loui grande lecaille ecaille mine to port town on the mississippi s banks old days 5 aw miners walking miles to work painfully hauling materials across the and swamps by plodding mule train 4 financial worries are 1 reduced this typical P worker a t grande lecaille ecaille has just discussed a problem with his personal manager and is receiving a loan employees also get group insurance hospitalization pensions service bonuses and discharge compensation ak left miners and their families are ardent sportsmen here is s a regularly scheduled night s softball game between port sulphur and belle chasse nearby community right son of a grande crande lecaille ecaille employee recovers from operation at the port sulphur hospital 11 1 N ma aw e A A ft 1 1 esses 4 va its rood good old summer time six or seven months of the year on the gulf eull coast and the childrens swimming pool at port sulphur is is always popular grownups find the gulf of Al mexico exico only four miles away as it is ground for tarpon and black bass good od a swimming pool as a fishing U it A in miners iners son strolls on labor day through laboring mans man s city |