MINERS AS HARVESTERS
BACK HOME FROM CANADA (United P-A.—By Telegraph—Copyrigh. • > Ifwfrolw)* and X.Z. Press Association) Reed. noon. LONDON. Sunday. Remarkable allegations about harsh treatment of the British miners who were sent to Canada for harvest work are being published. Three hundred of them are on their way back to England. The “Daily Herald” publishes extracts of letters from them, alleging that they were forced to sleep in tinopen in bitter cold, following from 1' to 20 hours’ work daily. Many wortturned into the streets and were living on charity. A more steadying viewpoint is contained in a cable to the Trade Unio-i Council from Mr. Ramsay Macdonald (Leader of the British Labour Party t. who is at present in Canada. He say s he Is unable to verify the complaints, and he urges that each be separately ehecked. The “Daily Telegraph's” Geneva correspondent says there is strong reason to believe that Mr. W. L Mackenzie King's visit to Mr. Baldwin concerned the settlement of 2.000,000 Britons in Canada. After the League Assembly, the Canadian Prime Minister will go to London to place the project before the Government.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 9
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187MINERS AS HARVESTERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 455, 10 September 1928, Page 9
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