https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/52981a0cc578a23277ada3debfff2421.pdf 8a96c9d73ac0c587f4bddb35c89fceaa PDF Text Text r ( l/!~1//. 1- / :/~ .-7;_,-.,1 ,;r~c u-4.,.,£(_,, 1 ......,. .......=-~i==~~ ~ = = -.,• · I I i oo muc!J urn:oco::rneli:'y t :ccwoL i nJ by comrc.:,,- offico:t'c.i, ; I ,/ I I / r G i:· e;fu.:Jctl to nppro- �FOit..'\I 2103 , THE UNRON IPACllFRC COAL ,,, OFFICE OF Attorney Rock Spring s, Wyoming. December 26th, 1931. IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO NO. Mr. George B. Pryde city Dear Sir, I inclose you a letter t h at I have written lvlr. w. A. Muir. This may seem a small t hing , but the reason taxe s are so high is because we have not watch ed s mall t hi ng s, whi ch through the years have developed into large t h ing s. The conting ent exp enses of County orf icers and St a te Ori icers have soared since 1912. We are paying monthly salar i es to Consta ble s, who have never done one lick of work in consia er a tion of th eir s al ari es. The Coroner's office is a needless expense, and t h e work couj_d be a s TTell and better performed by J~stices of t he Peac e . If the custom should be t hat County and Prosecuting Attorneys can be pai d. out of public i"unds, i'or making inve stigations, in compensation cases, they woulQ be taking t heir s easonable vacations f rom t he Atlanti c to t h e Pa ci f ic, inspir ed e§=:::::;:::s,e, in the hope to establish meritorious claims tor- compensation, Hth e curtailment of public expens e s sh ould. not be consia eredt1 • But little consideration is now exercised because the expens es oi· investigations are saddled onto the employer, and what public oi'i'icer cares as long as a coal company or an oil company is chargeable with the expenses? In a recent case, the County and Prosecuting Attorney of this county brought an osteopath to Green Riv er, and he was allowed expert witness fees oi· $10.00 a day, ana. his mileage. This was done while I was away in Denver, but it seems to make no dii"f erence to . public oi'i"icials what the expenses are as long as they are chargeable to private enterprise. The dii'ficulty is not 1·undamentally that public officers do _not care. I am not charging that. But, the public o1Ticer is generally nothing more than a man· in the street, and he cioes not recognize or know t.he awful struggle that the business man has to make in order to meet his payroll, and to keep the wheels of industry turning. 'l'ne man in the street, who is out 01· a job, sympathizes with himself,. but put him to v,ork 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. 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PRYDE �Uovemb0r 14:th, 1931 .. I.Jr.. William Redshav,, Superintendent Megeath Coal Company Rock Springs, Vlyomi~ig Dear Sir, The above is a case that needs solilu e.xplw.1.atio11,o anu I think it might be well that· our Omaha oi'ficials should be made f amiliar with the facts. '!he ,'. Ol'kman v,2.s unu.oubi:;-e Uy_ ::,uf':fering from lumbago and arthritis, which caused pa1.n in his back. Ile Vient to Doctor Arbogast on -the 4th of F~bruary, 19~.;1 i'o1• treatruent., but said nothing to Doctor Arbogast about being injured in the llline. On the 15th or 16th of Feb:euary, Arbogast discharged him a s convalesce:nt. This was done at the 1"'equ0st of the workman, thG ·;,orl~,a.u claiming tho.t he desired to go to t'Joi-1-i: in an automobile repair shop . The portion of the mine shere Jche workman was employed was sllut dow.ci oz., the Gth of Ft';bl'Uary, 1931., and the tmrkman informed that there was no further viork 1n the mine for him at present. • Still suffering from arthritis, the y-;or1crnan went to an ostdopath (E. :a. Sturges), who cla:.i.m~ci an injury· to his hip below the point that Doctor Al•bogast found affected vrlth lumbago. The osteopath appears to hu.ve burnE:Jd hilil severely v,i th an electric appliance, and to have gotten from him,. •as fees, .ull of his money. It seems that he then went to the Veterans' Hospital at Denver (fitzsimons), huving been s0nt there by the American Legion, he bei11g a11 ex-soldier , Upon his 'd ischar·ge from Fi tzoimons, he became a patient of Doctors Lauze1~ and Sanders oi' Rock Springs. I do not no\'l recall i',heth\C,1· Doctor LauzBr hatl seen him before h~ ,wnt to F'i tzsimons Hospital, or not, but it is iilll!laterial. Doctor Lauzer :reported that he had his back .fractured at or about th8 twe_lfth dorstl verteb:r:3, and took i:;everaJ. X-ray pictures of the wol"kman. The osteopath, Sturges, claimed he uad some injury to his thigh, or his spine, below the place of fracture, as reported by Doctor Lauzar. The result VIas that Doctor Arbogast had X-ray nict.u:res tru~en at the Uyoming General Hospital at Rock Sprir-4gs, and coulu discover no injury or fracture whatsoever. �During this time., t~1e 1;orkman had talked to one Dan Pallie., uho undertakes to make investigations for the mine workers, and to advise them in their compensation claims, mid Pallie told the workman that he had a crac~ed bone in his back,9 which it appears caused the ir10rkman to consult Doctor Lauzero The dispute b0tv1e1;m Doctor .Arbogast,9 who could find no injury, and the os-teop~th., \,ho found a hip brokan., and Docto:r Lauzer., who found n spine fr~otu r e, and some chips of spine bones ·flonting e..round in the workman's nnatoray, created a contro~rersy, tjhich caused Mr<? W. A. Muir, the -County ~.nd Prosecuting .Att orney, without notice, or consult~tion YJi th tha company, or Vii th tho writ o:r, to bri~ a sul t f m.~ the workman in -the District Court, a:..u. to have a partial hearing when the writer v1~s out of the State. At that hearing held on October 15th., 1931," Doctor Lauzer stateo. that th e :i.ujury to the workman t'Ya s equivalent to one half of permanont totcl disability, r.:hich r;ould involve some (~2500. 00 in an ffVJF.:1?d. In or•dt:1· i.,o :S."~co:ncilE: this dispute between the doctors, I paid the expen$eS _of the uorkmnn going to Salt Leke City, where he was excmined b y five doctors, ~d ne~ X-ray pictures teken, all of which shor1ed :no f!'a,cture, no injury, c'.nci. the c:octor s who mrnmined him all J/1:I report that there ~as, and is no injury, as claimed by Doctor Lauzer, . 1 I i and the osteopath, Stu:rges. i i1.nother he,; tr.i.h g ·;:;J,':").S had before Judge Tidba ll on the 9tp. of November, ana it ~~pGa~s from the attitude of the County Attorney, and his ad.visers, v:ihich .include Doctor L2.uzer, th2.t ~- dep~rtur-e is to be made froti their former position, and that now they are going to claim that the r-.rthritis r:cs nfired u;:n and broueht ou in its sflvei--ity, by the v.-orlcrna.n straining his back on the 3rd of February, 1931, i:1hile rolling D rock out of' the \"!u.Y in the :."'oom in \1hich he was working in the mine. There aro many reason why this case must bJcontested to its very limit; among the chief' res.sons is thct s. p1·ecedent lt.1ill be set if the employer lays down., introduci11g into our com;::-~nsation system z-esponsibili ty on our pert for "diseczes", ,,;hich may be ag[;l'avated or ."fired up", as the doctors call it, beccuse of some pretended mu$cula:r- strain. You v1ill appreciate how far this riou1d go if the 1.·,orlcmrm, in dull times, such a~ rre are now having, should be alloF.ed to claim that every ill that the body has is the result of some :ln~ury. This also \1ould make a !air field for osteopaths, and chiropractors,. and other GUack peddlers, to oper~te in. I received this morning ~n ordar from the Judge of the District Court, requiring tbe surgeons of tho Fitzsimons Hos,itnl to stcte in a deposi t1on whe.t they found to be the matter with the ·workman, atter which I will talce the depositions of the five doctors 1n· Salt Lake c:tty, goin~ both to Denver and to Salt Lal-:::e City for this purpose. �It is true the ~itness fees for these doctors, and the expenses of tc;Jdng these dcpositi.on s , together vdth expenses already paid by me, ~111 ~mount to several hundred dollars, but it · is one of these cases that must ·be cl0r-..n0d up, or un.les8 it is cleaned up, will grow into a real caucer, for vihich the:-ce will probably be no healing. That this case should be defended to its full conclusion, is to themt€rest of every employ0r of labor in the State of Tiyoming. The 'ti1·iter f0cls t11~t t he si tuation should be mD:cle kr.ow11 to our Oma...'1.a o_f ficitil. s as tho fa.ctn :.ctnally cxi s·t. Your~ t.ruly, � 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 Letters regarding matters of law and compensation Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Taxes, Law, Injury, Compensation Description An account of the resource Small stack of thin paper attached with a metal binding. Letters discussing recent legislation, taxes, injury, compensation, legal matters, etc. Most of the 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 T.S. Taliaferro, George B. Pryde, Eugene McAuliffe, Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0202 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co.