repeated in 1944. Let us seriously
_ g further resolve that 1944 shall be a
K7 n  . L year in which increased production is . T
` accomplished with safety.
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A   4é%/   _ I Maohinemen, like miners, do their princi-
})?/   pal work at the faces, and about two out
-   // W! of every three killed met their death .
under a fall of rocf while working there.
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_   J / JK A machineman is sometimes anxious to cut
an unsafe place so the miner will have
_ - coal to load next day. He is not helping
WEEE WERE YOU'? ‘ such a miner, for sooner or later the
miner is going to be killed, if the mach-
We spilled our blood in the jungle mud _- ine operator is not killed first in
And we didn't have much to say. ~ attempting to make the cut. ‘
And we shared our bread at they sideof c _
the dead -- - » EXAMINE ROOF AND TIMBERING CAREFULLY AND
But where were YOU that day'? LEAVE THE PLACE DOWN IF IT IS NCT SAEE. 1
We steamed in sweat and our clothes . \If machinemen refused to cut a place that
were wet ` was not properly timbered, or a p1ac_e
But we fought every inch of the way. that had loose rock that should have been
And we wished to hell as our buddies fell, taken, you would hearof fewer machine-
That YOU had worked that day! ‘ V men, and fewer miners, being killed.
Sweat and mud and tears and blood _ `A
Are part of a soldier's pay. _ l · v
We aren't done yet -— but don't forget MINER KILLED AT FACE OF ROOM BY A TRIP
WE'RE COMING BACK SOME DAYX RUNNING BACK ON Emi. SWITCHES WERE NOT
4 ‘ ALIGNED WITH ENTRY TRACK. · 1
_ A HAPPY NEW YE_A_R 4 I ` , _
The time comes again to hang a new calen- Q _  
der in the place of the old one. Twelve I I ‘
months are taken from eternity and set be- _
fore us in which to plan and do. The   _    
twelve months that we have torn from the   _ { TO   }     ·
wall sheet by sheet are irzaevosably _
lost: The time is gene and many- of the `         I5 V
losses or gains can neither be altered   B   R E ·
nor reclaimed, · ` Q  
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The important thing is: have we experien— · `   YOU     ‘
ced anything in the past year that will A   ________`__`
assist us in improving the one immediately   —-———-...
ahead? Have we profited from the mistakes _  
of the past'? To make progress seems to bel  
the mark of divinity which is inherent in   L
humanity. Let us then resolve that the _   _ _
failures and mistakes of 1945 shall not be   ' -