IDLE MINERS
DISTRESS IN SOUTH WALES COALFIELDS INCREASED BY APPROACH OF WINTER GOVERNMENT’S TRANSFER SCHEME (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) London, November 23. The approach of winter is making worse the already distressful conditions in the South Wales coalfields included in the districts which Lord Melchett recently trenchantly summed up as “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 on 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 eighty thousand have migrated. Still, the conditions locally have not improved. •
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 53, 26 November 1928, Page 11
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