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THE MINERS' -PROVIDENTFUND…

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THE MINERS' PROVIDENTFUND FOR SOUTH WALES. After a careful analysis ot the acsidenta in collieries for tie last thirty you% their &Srwtft and reaalta, Mr. Charles Wilkins, of Merthyr, has prepared a tahetne for establishing the f and. The baaia is. ss might be expeoted (torn & porttnastef, and an admirer of Bowland Bill-the peony. Taking the average loss of life and average injnriea annually, he shows that by the payment of one pet-ny a week (romeaoh oollier, and 10 par cent, cpon the total anbsoriptions at the colliers by tho coalowners, supplemented by 5 per cent, frft th* landholder, a fund wUi be provided which wtJJ -W, ev,-ry er,r*ei OV, a 4 reed". .ary any Sf-peel to the symcmlbedo woril 1 oj D,i-fc«or». tr he a"t,1 In working th- fl171 „ exceedingly stuiple. The plan ouly tl,, earnest oo-operation of the three class% benel-st primarily by onr collieries—the laudswaers 't", coalowncra, and tbe oollion. We hap, tHti after the scheme has been piblish^ i, cut ool Oren* the fand will be etartsd' titfcer thfoogh the initiative of the 0031101.07. association, or by some other meana. Ths ooili^- must, however, remember that, as they are tk) olau that will reap the beneSt of the fltod, so it is from them that the greatest portion of the money must be forth ioniiuy. Unless coasiderab;, comber, of them are willing to mike the rttj "amto oontribations saitgentod, no peimnass; sewdent fand will over be eetablished, elth jr 01 the plan suggested by the poatmMter of tl^rtiyr or on any other. We have ourselves ftle- -d t, thia aubject on nnmerona oooatione, atd blh frequently had to lament, on the ocoorroiioe 0! disasters snoh ae tnoao of Aburoarn aad DiriM the apathy displayed by the men. If Mr. W: I enooeeds in promoting hia sohacie, ho viiu bar, earned a debt of gratitude from the miners o Sonth Wales.

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