IDLE MINERS CO-OPERATE
SMALL WELSH COLLIERY BOUGHT.
CHEAP BOOT-REPAIRING SHOP.
By Telegraph— Press Assn—Copyright
London, Dec. 17.
Fourteen hundred unemployed men in Garw Valley, Wales, mostly miners, formed a club and co-operately bought a small colliery and plot of land, which they worked as allotments, and started a boot repairing shop. Now 250 are working the mine a few hours a week, for which each receives Ijcwt. of coal. The boot shop is repairing members’ footwear for Is 6d a pair men’s, Is 3d a pair women’s and Is a pair children’s.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 5
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