HUNGRY WELSH MINERS
UNABLE TO WORK DOUBLE SHIFT WAR WORT HINDERED (Reed. 6.40 p.m.) London, Aug. 8. Wealthy coal mines in South Wales are not yielding the quota they should to the war effort, because the miners cannot get enough to eat, says the Daily Express Cardiff correspondent. At a pithead near Llanbradaeh he watched 500 miners come off the night shift. Nourished on bread and jam, they had hacked at a coal face with picks for seven and a-half hours. HaU of them might have worked a double shift but they were too hungry to do so. That meant that nearly 2000 hours of coal production was lost. The correspondent says he talked with dozens of miners’ wives from Ystrad, in Rhondda, to Caerphilly, in the eastern valleys. They are sacrificing most of their rations to keep llvir husbands . going in the pits.— U.P.A.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 187, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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