https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d78bd78d5c27700a66db05e8e5431e35.pdf fb9d273801db8faf65ef5fabe4687dc9 PDF Text Text noolt Spri~s - Doo<ribor 28 , 'i . 3 . i'olia.f orro , Jr .: I hnvo youro of Dooombor 26th, \:ith o.ttc::ched copy or l ot.tor t o I foGl you o.ro entirely rit;ht in this connoation . I do not ooo 'VJhy Ur . l~uir should not bo t1illin3 -to accept tho offot" you malce . It you ooto.bliohccl th e proposition tbut lnnyers nnd dootoro cc-.n run ull ovor tho oountl"J in~ervie't7itlc tdtneas.es imdor thq namu:iption tlm.t they ccm ho paid un<101~ the eornpensation ln\7, 01 by the County Cot:JJ:tiooionora., 9 thon l. nm afraid that n gr eo.t !Jllny u1mcc C:JG(lrY: billo rrould \Je inau1•rocl . '1'ha ll".ot l ogiol o.tura, you will reanll, took ooewnnce of so much unnoooaoury trnvolli.J16 by coU11ty oifioor~ , cnu rofu.ood to nppro- pti nt o money for county conmisoionero and othor county of ficoro' r-metine nt Cheyenne under the pl.en ": _t they •. oro unnccoaoor. . ., ---looa :1u ... added burden to tho ~~,a· p:::.yor . I do --,·,~ believe : •. 111.lir could l canlly o.ek to ~ for • ~· I --•o !.( thoo o ".:itnor::ooo . mi{;hfi rew.buroad ! :VO in eoiftG to :cJ.t LokO Und int~_,._r,:_,2 -, • [l - �• • Rock Springs, Wyoming. ·Attorney Decemb er 26th , 1931. IN RE P L Y PLEA. S E H. EFER TO NO. 1\!Ir . George B. Pryde Gity Dear Sir, I inclose you a letter t hat I have written Mr. Vi . A. Mui r . This may seem a small t hing , but the reason t axe s a r e so high is because we have not watch ed small t hing s, whi ch t h rough t he years have developed intu large t hing s. The con t ingent expen s e s of County Orficers and State Or f i cers have soa red sin ce 1 91 2 . ¼e ar e paying monthl y salaries to Constabl e s, wh o have n ever done one l ick of' work in consideration of their s al a r i as. 'I'he Cor oner' s 01 1 i ce is a needless expense, and the work coul d be a s Pel l and bett er per f ormed by J~stices of the Peac e . If the custom should be t hat County and Prosecuting Attor neys can be paid. out of publ ic i'unds for maki ng i nv e stigations, in compensation ca ses, they woulQ be ~aking t heir s ea sona ul e va ca·tion s from tn e At l an tic to the Paci f ic, inspired ~::::::-:;,,:=, , in the hope to establish mer itorious cl aims f or- comp ensation, Ht he curtailment oi public expens e s sh oulQ not be consictered~1 But little consia.eration is nov1 exercised because the expens es 01· investigation s are saddled onto t h e employer , and what public o1'1'icer cares as long as a coal company or an oil company is chargeable with the expens e s·:' In a recent case, the County and Prosecuting Attor ney of this County brought an osteol?ath to Green River, and he vrn. s allowed expert witness fees oi· $10.00 a day, and his mileage. 'l'his was done while I was a way in Denver, but it seems to make no ciii'ference to . public oi'i'icials what the expenses are as long as they are chargeable to private enterprise. The dii'ficulty is not i 'undarnentally that pubJ.ic of ficers do _not care. I run not charging that. But, the public oi'i'icer is generally nothing more than a man· in the- street, anu he a.oes not recognize or know t11e awful struggle that the business man has to ma.Ke in order to meet his payroll, and to .keep the wheels of industry turning. The man in the street, who is out oi" a job, sympathizes with himself, -but put him to v10rk tomorrow, he would not speed up his own motions, or his own activity a hair's breadth because in so doing, he could help his employer. It is but the old ciassic saying that: HT.he hog never loo.ks up to him who thrashes a.ov,rn the acorns 11 • -Yours i'ST:ga �,, ·..._ ~_: : ,;.l _.,. ~ • (: :::--~~•\~~ ~;, /! :,.__~Q.~: ~t-;'"" ·;: •rt:/ . t ~•J_:~';.. 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Deb • . .1w. h&I •t, a.r• Mt. ,_ - ·. ;,;, : ,~.'. ,: ,t;.nd ~ ll ' r t:>l tl)e b ~-6:i' . , lE..,.,.,_, llb, • . ~ ot ay o-:tt'er' to • no1unr.mr. • COQ- •t .tt¥e: • • �noah Sp inns - t.JovcrJibor 21, 1931 a£~ vr::_,;.~1. ~ 4 • .I !toi'ol"rinc to my lottor of ~!ovombor 16th ra6nrdini; 0001,el'lontion "' .. or tho UQ&oc.tb Cool Co~v.ny: ; 2• . • 1 -~~·. , in ·--· • • 11 ,~Gdobu\7 lmo juot ohotm no ~ lottar ho roooived !rcn :r • 1hicl1 :,,_., Hopko. udvioed him ~ . Ght tho CQSO to th" l:h!\it . : ~-·:·•lmn oo ad.vit1e<.l Hr. To.li!ttorro . Original Sil!tled\ . GEORGE B. PRYO£ J • �nook °t>l"!nao ... !::Ovcmbar 16, 1931. r OJ. ·, ·}v ~~ ·: -· . Eu;Jono '"oAuliUo: HoTod.th copy o! l0ttor hnntlod no by r1r. Talinto ro on tho In disouuoine th:l.a ct'.:1 c \.'1th him ho a.dvioeo tlm t •·r. ~~cdohnw 14·~> • ,: •• willinr:; to rP nhond C'Jld pa.y from the oomponention fund nn f'.L1ount 1unl to 0!10 lrnl r Of totru. dionJrlt.Li ty' or C2 ,500. 1 very 11uob oppoeod to this 1 us. ha at tc.a 2 .I-_),· ,) ~ ' •. f:!l:-,. Talio.fol":ro io ;thi& ·.eltli-rJ :Lo o.llowod ~ precedent . 'i'ho molo oc--: c avid ·: ay ori3i110.ted tiitlt Don Pcllio t;oilt; to ~· • ,;u1r , tho pi-oo : ·,-~::..~, a.ttornoy of 3troatmtcr County, thoy thel'O-.'\ !tor and th . io no injl • I bel.iovo :!r. TulJ.o.forro L right in tldtt ouoo, ,... h: • 1.~:~ the uaount ~·hould not ho ~ dd by tho r·::-..;c-_.., · \I ·· 1,., :. ·-.~ -· • ~-:.... · ,, Coal Compony, but : '.r. ~alia.ferro ·'l.: tlmt he roole :~.. Redohau 1a ~llinc to atand the ~~ turi..: er -~riclo , probably on the theory thnt ho , ·:\ ' be 8 0 7 :···. lloplta. for you ·, I s:r~ t»ndorin~ if it miuld not • o • •,:.sable mttor ith f~r . Jlopkn, advisi~ hio ·:.hat ,'l: fur her ~ ation in thia onee should be· oonteot od . th:!.. : cc.! If tho 2 SOO io pnid, •.'111 • t~ cot all othor conl companies advent~ ly in ;.: o futUJ"e. Orl~ln11.I S11!'ned: GEORGE B. PRYDf t.•·~< 1 �November l~th, 193lo 11" 4 \7i11iam Redshav.1, Superintendent I.1Ggoath Coal Company ':lock Springs, Wyoming D0nr Sir, I:n re alleged in;jury of JU.bert Ko p1•01,;ski. The above is a case that needs some e:ir.pL.illa t ion, &nu I think it might be w0ll that· our Omaha officia ls shoul d be made f amili ar ....-,d. t h tlle facts. The ·,hn•kma 1 v,-::i.s undou·bc·e1.Uy_ suffering from l umbago and arthritis, which caused pa:J.n in h:i.s back. Ile v-1ent to Doctor Arboga s t on the 4th of Febi•uar~-, 1931 i'ol' treatment, but said nothing to Doctor Arbogast a bout being injured in the wine. On Che 15th or 16th of February, ArbogHst dh;chai·get1 him as convalescer1t. This iw.s done at the rec1uost of t_1e \"JOrkhlan, ~h3 1,0:i.·lt.~an cl,.dming t hnt h e u.esired to go to rmrl\'. i n an automobile 1•epair shop. Th0 po:rtion of the mine whore the workman v1a s employed v.ti:1s shut down Oli the Gth of F-abr1...cu:y, 1931, and the r;orkma11 i nfo1•med that there \:Jas no further viork in the mine for him at pre8ent. Still suffering from arthri,cis., the v;orkma.J1 i,ent t o an ost~opath (i:;. B. Sturges)., v,ho claim~d au. injury to his hip belor; the poirLt that Doctor Arbogast found affected with lurubagov The osteopath o. Jl)Oa~s to huve bui~nC:ld him severely vii th an electric appliance, and to hnvo gotten from him, ·as fees, all of his money. It seems that he then went -to the Vcterans 1 Hospital at Denver (fi tzsimons), having been ae1nt tuere by the American Logion, he bejJ1g ex-soldier . Upon his 'discha1·ge i'rol.Jl Fi tztiimons, h0 becrune a patlent of :Joctoi,s Lauzer anu Sanders o:1' Rock Spring s.. I do not no\1 recall nho ther Doctor Lauz8.t' had seem him be.fo1·e ht1 went t;o Fitzsimons Hospital, o~ not, but it is imruaterial. m.1 Doctor Lauzer reported that he had his cnck fractured at or about t!-ie t\"-:elfth tlorstl vez-·t~br:'J-; ~.nd took ~0V (!:'.'r-..1 X-ray pictures of the -r;orkman. The osteopath, Sturges, claimed he hnd some injury to his thigh, or his spine, below the place of .fracture, as repo;etoc. lJy l"locto1• Lauzar. The result wao that Doctor Arbogast hatl X-ray pictuTes talren at the \-yoming General Hospital at Rock Sp:-ings, and could discover no 1n3ury or fracture nhetsoever. �/ Dur~ing this time., tl·w 110:d.rnum had tQlked to one Dan Pallie, u' o uudertakes -to make investigations fol'.' the mine wo1..kers.11 and to a a~,y· so them in their compensation cle.irnsJ) a:nd Pa.llie told the workman ·t' lnt he had a cracked bone :in his back)) v,hich it uppears caused the no.i..k12an to consult Doctor r..auzer. lL1d Th,e dispute betwaen Doctor 1lrbogast 9 r,·ho could. find .no injuxy, the osteop~th, ';;ho found a hip brokan., nnd Doctor Lau.zer, who found a spine fi•l!.ctl..!re, and so@e chips of Sl.:drie bones · flouting around in the r; rkman 1 s nnatomy., crGatod a controversy, uhich caused Mr~ W.. Ao Muir., t ho -Com::i.ty a.no.. P1~osecuting Attorney, without notice, or consultation \;i·c.;h the company, or v,ith the v;ritcr, to bri~ a suit for the "i;:;-orkman i the District Court, arlu. 'i..o llavG a 1-,artial hearing when the ·wri te:r r:~s out of tne State. At that heering held on October 15th, 1931, Doctor Lauzer stE.tea. that th 8 .iuj-ury to the v7orkman i'.ra s equiv~lent to one half of permanent total disability, -r1hicb. v., ould involve some G2500~00 in un aBa~d. In ordt::t i,o J.·0concil0 this dispute ·oetr:een the doctors, I paid the expen£es of the POl"ktnnn going to belt LGke City, ,;,;h ers he rn-B.s e. cru.ined bJ'' five doctoy,s, n.nd n e'v? X-ray pictures ta..lr:en, all of -r;hieh shor.:ed no f!'e,cture, no i;;.1j"L1ry, o.nc. th~ c:octor s v;ho exandned him 1£111 :s.'eport that there r;as, o.. v1d is no injury, as claimed by Doctor Lauze:r, nncl the osteo~., 2th, Stu:rges. imothe:r hc12.:rin,s V:=1 s h 2cl before Judge Tidb~.11 on the 9th of llov~rubor, ar.i.d it ~I;pGars from the o.tti tude of the County Attorney;, an.d his advisers, 1.:rhicb. inch1ds Doctor Lcuzer, th~t e dep~:rtui·e i $ to be lZlo.do frow their i'orn,~r position, av.d that now they are going to claim t11£.t the 1:.rthri tis ·t ~s nfirec. u~v1 end b1'"oueht on i n its sr:v0ri ·t·. y, by tho v:-orltt:an straining his back or. the 3z•d of February, 19ra, while 1:olling v i-ock 01-1t cf the ,'"!ay .:!.n the :::-com in \1h:lch he nas v:orki115 in the mineo 'l:hGre ar0 many reason -~hy this case must bJcontested to its very linit,; among the chi~.f reasons is that a p1·ecedent l.-1ill be set i.f the c, ployer lays dom., introducing into our comp0.ns;:;.tion systsm ..'as11onsibi.lity on our ~a1·t for t disev.sesn, r:hich may be aggi•avated or rvfired upn, as the do ctor s c t::.11 it, bGcf'.use or some prGtonde11 :muscular strain. You -:nill apprcci.:i.te how far this r;oµld go if the •:-1orkman, 1n dul l ti.!Jles., such u;: r:e are now h2ving, shol;lld be t:illowea to claim that every ill that the body has is the result of some lnjuryo • This al so would mnke a fair field for osteopaths, and chiropractors,. and other quack peddle:!.9s., to oper~te in. I received this mor-nin_g an order from the Jud:;e of the District Court, requiring the surgooDs of tho Fit~si.mons Hos:,itn.l to ste.te in a deposi t1on what they found to be the mr.tter ,"ii th th0 workman, after which I will take the depositions of the flve doctors in Salt Lt1ke City, going both to Denver and to Salt Lake City for this purposeo �/ It is true tho witness fees for t hese doctors, end the expenses of t ~Jting these dor, o~iti.onsp tog ether with ex p ensG s already paid by r.ae, n111· nmount to several hundred dollar s, but it is one of these cases t hat must be cleRncd up, or urller.; s it i s cleaned up, will g!'01.1 into a :re&l caucel' , for Vihich t h ere will probc. bly be no healing . That this case should be defo.ncled to i ts full conclusion, is 'i;o t he :intfJrest of ever y et1ploy0r of labor in the St s t0 of Wyomi ngo The r:1•1 ter fool s th&t t he si.tua t .io;a should be made k...1ovvu to our Ou1aha officirw.-s as the :'a.ctn actuall y exi s t. Your~ t r ul y ; � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Communication on deals and compensation. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1931-12-28 Subject The topic of the resource Evidence, Injured worker, best deals of compensation Description An account of the resource A 7.5"x 10" and, 8.5"x 10.75" collection of printed letters. Discussions of what evidence has been produced to an injured worker, alongside what are the best deals of compensation. Some pages are faded may be hard to read. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource George B. Pryde, T.S. Taliaferro Jr. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0186 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co.