May 18, 2010

Nothing New Under the Sun

"It was found that eight miners and one little boy had been sacrificed in order to save a few dollars that should have been expended in providing the proper means of escape for the brave men who are obliged to work in our coal mines." Osage City (Kansas) Free Press, May 7, 1881, in an article about a fire in a coal mine in Carbondale, Kansas.

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