WELSH MINER CUTS 100-TONS A WEEK
LONDON, November 22. Edwin Greenslade, a Welsh miner, recently cut 1000 tons of coal in 10 weeks and earned £3O weekly. After this effort he took a week’s holiday in London and. then returned to work “for another go at the record." Greenslade hews from a 4ft 6in seam each day the yearly ration for seven normal households— nearly seven times as much as the average miner. His wife complains that he works too hard, but he just keeps slogging away “because he cannot help it. “He did go to a dance one night,” said his wife, “after he had turned out 35 tons. But he was back at the pit at 7 o'clock the next morning.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25660, 24 November 1948, Page 5
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