COLLIERY PURCHASED
UNEMPLOYED MEN’S ENTERPRISE.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, December 17. Fourteen hundred unemployed men at Carew Valley. Wales, mostly miners, formed a club and co-operatively
bought a small colliery on a plot of land which was worked as allotments, and also started a boot repairing shop. Two hundred and fifty are now working the mine a few hours a week, for which each receives 11 cwt of coal. The boot shop repairs members’ footwear for 1/6 a pair for men’s, 1/3 for women’s and 1/- for children's.
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Southland Times, Issue 22201, 19 December 1933, Page 5
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92COLLIERY PURCHASED Southland Times, Issue 22201, 19 December 1933, Page 5
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