Annual Coal Report, Issue 29The Bureau, 1911 |
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aged Aggregate value air shaft Average number Back injured Belleville blasting coal bottom Bros cage Cagers Carterville Cause of Accident cent Centralia Cherry CHERRY MINE DISASTER Chicago Christian County Coal & Mining Coal Co Coal Company Coal Mining Collinsville decrease Disposition of Output district Drivers employed escape shaft falling coal falling rock falling roof falling slate feet fire Foot injured Glen Carbon Goodman Herrin Illinois John Kegs of powder killed leaves a widow Leg broken Leg injured Lump machine Madison Madison county main shaft Marion Married miners Mines in Tons Mines reported motors mule Name of Operator non-fatal accidents Number of mines O'Fallon O'Gara Coal Output of Mines Peoria Pinckneyville pit car Postoffice address reported for 1909 Sangamon second vein shipping mines Spring Valley Springfield Staunton Streator Table third vein Timberman tonnage Tons mined Total number total product Total tons value of total Vermilion Vermilion county Westville
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Page 493 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence ; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 496 - ... provided that the amount of any weekly payments made under this Act shall be deducted from such sum, and if the period of the workman's employment by the said employer has been less than the said three years...
Page 496 - ... where total or partial incapacity for work results from the injury, a weekly payment during the incapacity after the second week not exceeding fifty per cent of his average weekly earnings during the previous twelve months, if he has been so long employed, but if not, then for any less period during which he has been in the employment of the same employer, such weekly payment not to exceed one pound.
Page 496 - If any question arises in any proceedings under this act as to the liability to pay compensation under this act (including any question as to whether the employment is one to which this act applies), or as to the amount or duration of compensation under this act, the question, if not settled by agreement, shall, subject to the provisions of the First Schedule to this act, be settled by arbitration, in accordance with the Second Schedule to this act.
Page 496 - Act shall be deducted from such sum, and if the period of the workman's employment by the said employer has been less than tin; said three years, then the amount of his earnings during the said three years...
Page 493 - May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 496 - The amount of compensation under this Act shall be— (a) where death results from the injury — (i) if the workman leaves any dependants wholly dependent upon his earnings, a sum equal to his earnings in the employment of the same employer during the three years next preceding the injury, or the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, whichever of those sums is the larger, but not exceeding in any case three hundred pounds...
Page 516 - We are left without a choice in the matter and must deal with the situation as we find it, not as we would wish it to be.
Page 354 - I have the honor to submit herewith the fifth annual report of the general superintendent of education for the Philippine Islands covering the period from September 15, 1904, to September 15, 1905.
Page 496 - ... if the workman does not leave any such dependants, but leaves any dependants in part dependent upon his earnings at the time of his death, such sum, not exceeding in any case the amount payable under the foregoing provisions, as may be agreed upon, or, in default of agreement, may be determined, on arbitration under this Act, to be reasonable and proportionate to the injury to the said dependants ; and (iii.