Referring to tiie possibility or Lie Otira Tunnel being completed by the end of the present year, a member of the Chamber of Commerce stated yesterday that the coach drivers were usually well informed in this matter, and the fact that they were buying fresh horses to cope witli the Christinas rush did not. appear to be very hopeful for the opening of the tunnel by that time. In Ihe public schools of New York City there arc 60,000 starving children. They include crippled, tubercular, cardiac, and children suffering from other
ailments, chiefly as a result of semistarvation. There arc also 10,000,000 unemployed in the United States, and the capitalists are hoping that the hungry link* one al school will force the parents to accept work at reduced wages and longer hours.
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Grey River Argus, 1 July 1922, Page 6
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