STRICKEN COALFIELDS
MINERS’ DESPERATE PLIGHT CONDITIONS IN BRITAIN Times Cable. LONDON. Monday. “The Times” says there has not been industrial distress matching the present plight of the coalfields since the cotton famine. Whole communities are ' stricken. Homes have been rendered bare, clothing and boots are worn out, and bedding is scarce. Neighbours are reduced to sharing their meagre cooking appliances. Their poverty at thef approach of winter has become chronic. A population of 750,000 persons has found that employment has simply left them. They must find other work far afield. The calamity has fallen swiftly and severely, yet the remedy must be slow. The paper suggests that in addition to the general relief funds different towns might adopt villages, as was done after the war.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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125STRICKEN COALFIELDS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 529, 5 December 1928, Page 11
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