DISTRESS IN COALFIELDS.

Grey River Argus, 26 November 1928, Page 5

DISTRESS IN COALFIELDS.

IN SOUTH WALES. Many Thousands Unemployed. “CONDITIONS TOO DREADFUL TO LINGER UPON” LONDON, November 23. The approach of winter is making worse already the distressful conditions in Mm South Wales coalfields and included districts. Lord Melcnett recently trenchantly summed up the once prosperous areas, “where conditions are too dreadful to linger upon.’’ The latest figures show that, 73,265 men are unemployed, and 30,000 are in pari time jobs. . The Lord Mayor of’Cardiff says that £60,000, which could be spent in relief, would only touch the fringe of the problem. The Government is carrying out the transferring of workcis, and already eighty thousand have migrated, but still conditions locally have not improved.