VISIT TO RUSSIA
SOME IMPRESSIONS.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) ' 1 (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. Two Kentish coal miners whom tile employers sent to Russia to study conditions, provided and if the report were favourable, they would migrate there at the employers’ expense, found according to a schoolmaster accomi panying them as interpreter that a Soviet official had been detailed to watch what they didj and they did not see overmuch. The interpreter added that, the people were housed in single rooms. Typhus was rampant. Though the miners worked six hours a day their wages were of the lowest. Meat prices were four times above those charged in Britain and fish was unobtainable. Clothes were very dear and only black bread was obtainable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1929, Page 5
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