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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19969, 10 December 1926, Page 12

COAL MINERS’ CONDITIONS. TO THE EDITOB. i Sib, —The recent disaster at the Dobson mine, near Greymouth, emphasises once more the dangerous nature of the employment. Regax'ded from this ■ point' of view the late stoppage in Britain has its credit as well as its debit side for the coal-miner. Taking a period of six months from the date when the owners posted their wage notices on May 7, and, taking the statistical average, the following figures show the credit side: If there had been no stoppage, 420 miners, including 35 boys under 16 years of age, would have met their death; 1500 would have been permanently disabled, and 60,000 would have suffered temporary disablement. Experienced miners tell us that the great majority of these accidents is preventable. This is an industry that, during the years 1922-3-4, made profits exceeding a quarter of the whole capitalisation of the industry. A coal merchant recently stated that the cost of distribution has risen, since 1914, from 5s to 14s per ton. This coal is retailed at £2 5s per ton. Ho maintains that it could be profitably distributed at the 1914 figure. Ke adds that "the one person most concerned, most deserving of consideration. the indispensable miner gets starvation, destitution, abuse—and 2s 3d per ton for hewing this same coal out of the bowels of the earth”—work that the negroes of Africa turn down so long as they can get work above the ground. The output of the British miner is the largest in Europe. —I am, etc., Maet M’Cartht. Dunedin, December 8.

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