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I o wrest coal from the deptlis of the earth, men
always have gambled their health and safety. Many have
lost the gamble and perished. But all too often, even those
who escaped sudden death have had to live out their lives
in hopelessness and pain because proper medical care was
not available in many small-town mining areas.
A decade ago the United Mine Workers Welfare and
Retirement Fund financed entirely by the mine operators
began to bring men with broken bodies down out of the
mountains to metropolitan hospitals. Recently, the UMW
opened its own chain of modern hospitals in the mining
country, an achievement which won an Albert Lasker
Award from the American Public Health Association.
Located in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, these
10 hospitals were dedicated to the service of 400,000 miners
and their families. Costing more than $25 million, the hos
pitals have about 1,000 beds. The largest is Becklcy (W.Va.)
Memorial, with facilities for 200 patients.
One of the first miners to receive help was a Kentuckian
whose spine was broken 15 years ago. Lacking money for
professional care or drugs, he hadn't seen a doctor in more
than three years. There was no road to his home, so he was
carried down the mountain to the hospital on a blanket
slung between two poles.
As the hospitals were dedicated, the Rev. Frederick Brown
Harris, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, said in his invocation:
"We thank Thee for patriots who dream of an America
which in social betterment shall go from glory to glory. . . .
We thank Thee today for the growing determination that
private greed must give way to social gains."
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Where modern medical care never existed, Mine Workers' hospitals like this one at Man, W. Va., now serve many families.
Their mining years total 115, Modern laboratories art an inttqrjj Mi Worler,' iiffT molality ptotyMl oflerv
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