Air pollution
Sir. — Ken Coate’s report on indoor air hazards and the speculation that more people may be put into a given space to conserve heating, made me refer back to Karl Marx. In “Capital" he faithfully recorded the “sweatshops” and particularly the death in 1863 of a milliner, Mary Anne Walkley, aged 20, who worked for 26j hours, with 60 other girls, 30 in one room, a room that provided 1/3 of the safe volume required. Under today’s conditions with new synthetic materials and processes we have increased indoor air hazards. It is an indictment of the Western world that we have wasted and continue to waste so much oil on private motoring in the urban sector sufficient that we may risk a cut-back in working conditions. Yet even Left-wing socialists still insist that workers must continue to enjoy “the ability to use motor-cars and the freedom of movement,” that the motor-car is always supposed to give. — Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. July 8, 1979.
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