GLOOMY OUTLOOK
WINTER'S PROSPECT,
Spectre Of Poverty Stalks In
South Wales.
THOUSANDS WORKLESS,
(United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, November 23. The approach of winter is growing worse and already there are distressful conditions in the South Wales coalfields. Included are the districts that Lord Melchett recently trenchantly summed up as being once prosperous areas where the condition is too dreadful to linger upon. The latest figures show that 73,265 men are unemployed and 30,000 have part time jobs. The Lord Mayor of Cardiff says that £60,000 could be spent on relief and only touch the fringe of the problem.
The Government is carrying out the transference of workers and already 80,000 have migrated. Still conditions, locally, have not improved.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 9
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