KENTISHMEN IN RUSSIA
NOT PERMITTED TO SEE MUCH LOW WAGES AND DEAR FOOD ( United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Two Kentish coal-miners whom their employers sent to Russia to study conditions provided, and who if their report were favourable could migrate at the employers' expense, found, according to the schoolmaster accompanying them as an interpreter, that a Soviet official had been detailed to watch what they did, and they did not see overmuch. The interpreter added that the people were housed in single rooms. Typhus was rampant. Though the miners worked a sixhour day. their wages were of the lowest. Meat prices were four times above those charged in Eritain, and fish was unobtainable. Clothes were very dear, and only black bread was procurable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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125KENTISHMEN IN RUSSIA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 11
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