WRETCHED LIFE.
SOVIET CONDITIONS. i Wages Low, Prices High And People Poor. BRITISH MINERS' REPORT. «. (United Service.) "i (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. i Two Kentish coal miners whom r their employers sent to Russia to 1 study conditions provided, if their 1- report was favourable, they would > migrate at their employers' expense, , found, according to a schoolmaster ■ accompanying them as interpreter, I that a Soviet official had been detailed . to watch what they did and they did [ not see too much. [ The interpreter added that, the people ■ were housed in single rooms. Typhus was rampant. Though the miners worked for a six-hour day their wages were of the lowest. Meat prices were four times above 1 those charged in Britain, and fish was unobtainable. Clothes were very dear 1 and only black bread was obtainable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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