MODERN CARS OF JUGGERNAUT
In the- year ending 30th June, 1911, 10,396 persons were killed and 150,159 injured on the railroads of the United States, writes, Mr. A. E. Ziramern in the Sociological Review* A large pro portion of these deaths and injuries was due to level crossings and stolen rides (a favourite device of the Arnericati vagrant), but deducting this the figures show that one out of every 458 railroad employees was killed and one out of every 13 injured in the course of one year. Suppose ten boys to enter the service of a railroad at fifteen and Btay tiU sixty j by the -law of chances one of them will be killed and each of them will be injured— sufficiently seriously for it to be notified — three times and a-half. And this in a country where the law is so defective that Compensation Acts nave been declared unconstitutional and only one murderer in every ten is even imprisoned. Small wonder that tho American proletariat shows a tendency to prefer lawless methods and short cuts towards freedom, to the long- stony, uphill path of political organisation and civic propaganda. Russian methods provoke Russian reprisals/
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 10
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