That progress is being nude in tho linmauisntinn of Immunity is brought; forcibly to mind by a paragraph in an Kiiglifli newspaper on tho death nf the la.-.t survivor of the "pit women" of the ]iri. tisli coal mines, barge numbers of women and children were once employed in this exhausting ami demoralising work, the women sometimes being disguised as men to avoid tho inspectors. "Pit women" now, happily, arc to bo found only in tho eombra paneo of flronnmic luGtoix,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 7
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81Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 7
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