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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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APRIL 8,1947
Kansan Comments.
Industrial Safety
The recent Centralia, Ill., coal mine disaster was one more illustration of the lack of effective co-operation between labor and management that exists in all too much of our industrial system.
His words and actions following the mine explosion were in the typical Lewisian pattern. With vituperation and emotional dramatics he portrayed himself as the protector of miners and laid full responsibility on others.
The charges and counter-charges of responsibility for the death of 111 miners are a manifestation of that lack of co-operation. The mine owners, Secretary of Interior Krug, and the governor of Illinois have all been blamed by various persons.
It must be admitted that Lewis has done much to improve the living and working conditions of miners. But in this disaster he was as much to blame as anyone else. He could have prevented its occurrence, just as the state and federal agencies could have.
But while John L. Lewis is calling Krug a "murderer," it should be pointed out that the record of Mr. Lewis is not clean in connection with the Centralia mine.
More than a year ago, inspections revealed the unsafe condition of the mine. However, none of the parties responsible for the safety of the miners took sufficient action to correct the conditions.
Under the provisions of the mine workers' contract, Lewis had the power to stop production in the mine when it was declared unsafe. He had the authority to call his miners out of the mine and insist that the conditions be corrected before another pound of coal was taken from the mine. But Lewis did not take this action to protect his miners.
Of course, this does not diminish the liability of the state and federal mining agencies. But when Lewis tries to ignore his own responsibility for the death of more than one hundred of his miners, the record should be set straight.
Union leaders, industrialists, and government agencies must work together toward a common goal of safe working conditions for labor. To "pass the buck" or ignore obligations will only result in more industrial injuries and deaths.
The 111 miners cannot be brought back to life, but future co-operation between unions and industry can do much to prevent further such disasters.
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Dear Editor--voice in the authorization of funds which were loaned to these people to start The Dove again. If I had had a voice, it certainly would have been No.
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After reading several comments in the latest issue of The Dove, I feel that it is time someone took steps to voice an opinion in opposition to the writers of this publication and their "many silent friends" who are working to change the rights and privileges of an American.
The article written by Frank Stannard against the entry of Oklahoma A. and M. into the Big Six conference clearly displays the unfounded narrow-minded and prejudice with which they assail the rights of our people.
Their rabble-rousing technique is quite similar to that used by Hitler before he made all the people of Germany "free and equal."
As a student, along with thousands of other K. U. students, I had no
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Newspapers like The Dove are exactly the thing that will force the Ku Klux Klan to live again. The American people have never been fooled by those who hide behind the cloak of democracy to spread their socialistic principles, and the students of K. U. are not fooled by The Dove. The color of this issue could not have been more fitting.
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