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HOPELESS OUTLOOK FOR MANY MINERS NATIONAL APPEAL LAUNCHED /By Telegraph-Per Press Assn.—Copyright) ( Auslr.tllrn Presa Assn. united Service ) LONDON, Dee. 5. “The situation in the mining areas bn Britain is unparalleled in living imemory,” say s ?lr Neville Chamberlain, in a letter to the conference of mayors on the iscussion of the allocation of the Lord layer’s relief fund. He added: “The salient feature is that the mining nuustry is not likely to re-employ a large proportion of the workless. Their unemployment must be regarded a s permanent. Tho ultimate solution consists of migration from the devastated areas. ft is the Government’s policy to facilitate migraton by every means. Tho interval must be bridged through relict pavilion ts, to prevent those who are unemployed from sinking into irretrievable exhaustion and ruin.” A national appeal on behalf of the miners in the stricken coalfields, especially in South Wales and Durham, was launched at the meeting.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 290, 7 December 1928, Page 7
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