RUSSIAN CONDITIONS
MINERS’ INVESTIGATIONS TERRIBLE LIVING CONDITIONS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (United Service.) (Received Sept. 21, 11 a.m.) ' • ' LONDON, Sept. 20. Two Kentish coal miners whom their employers sent to Russia to study the conditions there, with the understanding that if their report was favorable they would migrate there at their employers’ expense, found, according to a schoolmaster accompanying, them as an interpreter, that a (soviet official had been detailed to watch what they did, and they did not see. overmuch.
The interpreter added that people wore housed in single rooms, and typhus was rampant. Though the miners worked a six-hour day, their wages were of the lowest. Meat prices were four times above those charged iu‘.Britain, and fish was.unobtainable. Clothes were very dear, and only black bread was obtainable.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 5
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