DISCONTENTED MINERS
GERMANY’S NEW PROBLEM
POOR CONDITIONS
LONDON, Aug. 7,
Widespread discontent among Germany’s 500,000 coalminers in the Ruhr, the Saar, and Upper Silesia, is revealed by Field-Marshal Goering’s decree appointing Herr Paul Walter a special commissioner for speeding up coal production.
Herr Walter has received precise instructions to build more miners’ homes, improve living conditions, safeguard health, and ensure adequate food suitable for heavy labour. The recent increase of hourj and the existing poor conditions have resulted in the miners adopting ca-canny methods, leading to decreased output. Field-Marshal Goering stated that Germany’s intensive rearmament programme and increased demands for coal made special measures essential. This is interpreted to foreshadow rationing of the supplies of housewives during the winter, and to be evidence of the difficulties under which the four-year economic plan is labouring.
Herr Paul Walter has been appointed special commissioner, with dictatorial powers, to control coal production in Germany, in the hope of overcoming the shortage threatening Germany’s armament and industrial activities.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 5
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164DISCONTENTED MINERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 5
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