LOT OF SUGAR-WORKERS.
SOME SERIOUS STATEMENTS. By Telegraph.— Association;—; Copyright Sydney, February 24; In giving evidence before the Sugar Commission, the secretary of the Sugai l Workers' Union said that tho working conditions were deplorable. Some employees in the sugar works worked in a seminude, and others in an absolutely "nude, state. ■ ■;': ■ <■■...' The witness said that bad effects caused by the terrific heat and sudden .changes to lower temperatures developed ft disease known as toe-rot, rheumatism, : influenza, and bad teeth.; Those who started as boys never reached maturity, and if they worked any length of time they were unfitted or. other work, and did not live to old age.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 7
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109LOT OF SUGAR-WORKERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14926, 26 February 1912, Page 7
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