“SHOCK WOMEN” EMPLOYED
MOVE TO SHAME COAL MINERS. SOVIET’S LABOURING SCHEME. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Aug. 8. The Times’ Riga correspondent says that “shock women,” intended to shame coal miners into greater activity, have been engaged in the Nonez Basin coal pits, the Soviet having waived the provision in the labour code prohibiting the employment of women underground. The women work alongside the men at the coal face, assisting the hewers and acting as trimmers. They are working magnificently.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1932, Page 7
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