A TRIP TO RUSSIA
TWO KENTISH COAL MINERS.
STUDY OF CONDITIONS MADE.
London, September 20,
Two Kentish coal miners, whom the employers sent to Russia to study the conditions provided and if their report was favourable would migrate at the employers’ expense, found, according to the schoolmaster accompanying them as interpreter, that a Soviet official had been detailed to watch what they did and they did not see over-much. The interpreter added that the people were housed in single rooms. 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 in Britain and fish was unobtainable. Clothes were very dear and only black bread was obtainable.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20886, 23 September 1929, Page 7
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122A TRIP TO RUSSIA Southland Times, Issue 20886, 23 September 1929, Page 7
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