GETTING DOWN TO IT.
Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 14. Transport organisntions liave rejiorted that there has been no laek of volmjteers lo work extra hours and over the weekend to minimise delavs in coal i'novements. AT r. Attlee's "crisis general staff" has praised the niariner in Which the tltiners have fallied. Two thousands of 3000 miners at Rhonnda. colliery volunteered to work on Sunday and the opencast miners of East Miilands establishetl new reeords in tonnage mdvotnents. The serious effects of the countr.y Wide hold-up are still evident. The iVfinistry of Labour has estimated the total number of xvorkers now unemployed through cuts in production, at more than 1,900,000. The loss of production in ahoes alone is estimated at 100,000 pairs in the Nottingham area.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 February 1947, Page 5
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