Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 April 1927 — Page 13

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MINERS TAKE DANGER AS PART OF DAY’S JOB Recent Explosion at Ehrenfeld, Pa., Offered Proof of of Philosophical Attitude.

By Martha Strayer Times Staff Correspondent JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 8. A thin, middle-aged miner's wife watched eight hours in a pouring rain beside the huge main entrance to the mine at Ehrenfeld, where 800 miners were miraculously saved from death recently. Her husband was the last to come out alive. For hours, she though he was dead. Later someone remarked to her that gas masks should be furnished all miners in deep-vein mines, and she replied with perfect seriousness: “Why!” she said. “Wouldn’t that cost more than the mines could afford?” Ehrenfeld is one of the mine which is not affected by the soft-coal strike. The miners who escaped death will go back to work when the mine is in working order again. “Some of them will,” said a young miner. “I bet half the lot will never step inside that mine again.” Pride and Loyalty But others, like the middle-aged miner's wife, are loyal to the mines.

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Some of them are proud of their work. There was a certain elderly workman at Ehrenfeld, for instance, who told with pride of an uncle who perished In a disaster in Great Britain in 1878, when 350 miners were trapped by fire. This man's two sons also work in the Ehrenfeld mine. The younger of the two boys had been transfered from day to night shift just three weeks before the Ehrenfeld explosion took place. The man who took his place was one of the four killed. A mine disaster gives a sudden, close-up of the miners and their families and how they live and work. They spend an eight-hour day in the mines except when something happens to the power. Then, with the fans stopped, their day's work is over. Most of the mines, like Ehrenfeld, use part hand and part machine labor. Motor driven machines cut out part of the coal. Miners fix blasts,

run electric drills, operate machines and in most mines load the coal on cars. In others, machinery has taken the place of this hand labor. Still Use Pick The old-fashioned pick is still wielded. In one level or “plane” at Ehrenfeld, there is nothing but pick work. In others machines are used. Middle-aged and elderly miners cling to the mines. , In some cases their sons do, too. In others, the sons quit and come above ground. "I told ’em something was gonna happen that place,” said the Americanized son of a Polish miner who has worked at Ehrenfeld thirty-one years. “I quit. Me go down there again? Never.” He had operated a motor to drive the air fans. “Sometimes they kept me workin’ overtime to clear out the dust,” he said. “They oughta wet the dust and they don't do it. They oughtna’ ta use machines in that dust.” Accept Danger Most miners are philosophical about dangers and disasters. “It’s all in the day's w r ork,” said one man at Ehrenfeld. Their wives likewise share their philosophy. Women who had waited at tho mine mouth thinking their husbands were dead, were baelt next morning laughing and talking it all over. Children who will be the next generation's striking miners also

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