Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 78

of way of living is so hazardous and where maladjustments of every kind
contributes to an atmosphere that breathes of hate and the dissatisfaction.
It is valued that our industrial and present system, through criminal
negligence, takes the enormous toll of 45,000 workers it killed every year.

A miner of every one hundred dies because his/her main care less
for the lives of men his that for the few additional dollars, the cost
of correct safety setups.

"During the examination in Pittsburgh it was open that from
industrial accidents County of Allegheny loses alone more than five
one hundred workers every year, sixty for cent whose the young men are
who have not reached the spring of the life yet. This loss doesn't fall
on the people that determine the degree of damage protection
and it decides on the introduction of safety equipments, but on the
widows, the orphans and the elderly parents."

Here the House Missionario clever it is an inestimable help. You
it is often a Servile or Bohemian girl, while knowing from the actual experience
the whole sordidness, the monotony the tragedy that the envelope the mine
and his/her workers, for in many cases her she has been a part of him,
her Cristianizzò, cultured and he/she trained from House Missioni. You
he/she speaks the language of the mines, she knows his/her intimate life. When
the frequent accidents, throws their devastation and terrible economic
you load on the houses, she comforts and it sustains. You help the
stricken wife and children to hold to the decency and right. You insignia
evening classes in English and the classes of mothers, sustain reading and
rooms of baton with games and healthy funs to hold the miner of boy
from the attraction of the cafe. You conduct the Domenica-school and it are
her a peripatetic Christian setup, with everybody that it implicates
of sacrifice, service and the salvation of soul and body.

A commentary on the need of House Missioni in the sections of extraction
you/he/she is forcedly introduced in the following testimony.

In front of the Committee of Industrial relations (February, 1915)