LABOR TROUBLES.
APPALLING CONDITIONS. THE MIXERS' DISABILITIES. Received Marcn 17, 12.10 a.m. London, March 10. The Mines Commission was greatly impressed I>y Mr. Robertson's evidence of (he appalling housing conditions, r-sjiji.-i----p.Uy in Scotland, and the necessity for the State providing proper homes. He stated that 28 per cent, of the people of Wishaw lived in houses of one room; 278S lived upwards of five in one room; 1'23" lived upwards of live in one room; numbers were compelled t» share beds with consumptives.—Ails.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. Mr. Robertson, chairman of the Scottish Union of Mine Workers, told the Coal Commission that mining was deadlier than ever. There were 1240 fatalities in the United Kinsdnm for the decade ending 1!)16; also 158,852 non-fata! accidents during 1914. ami over S.S.'ilO-O seriously injured in the last twenty years.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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134LABOR TROUBLES. Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1919, Page 5
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