SLAVE WORKERS
JAPANESE COAL MINERS ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE CONDITIONS Rec. 8 p.m. TOKIO, Jan. 1. Some 75,000 Japanese miners are working as slaves under conditions unbearable for animals in the Hokkaido mines, a member of the Allied Coal Group from General Mac Arthur’s headquarters revealed to-day. The team, which has just returned to Tokio after investigating the reasons for the lag in production, said the conditions were almost unbelievable. Broken in spirit, livieg only on rice, and unpaid for months, they were crowded 20 a time, often regardless of sex or age, in hovels which, by normal standards, were foo small for one.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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102SLAVE WORKERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26659, 3 January 1948, Page 5
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