LIFE IN RUSSIA
GLOOMY PICTURE. TYPHUS AND FOOD SHORTAGE. BRITISH MINERS’ VISIT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Service.) Received September 21, 9 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 20. Two Kentish coal miners were sent by their employers to Russia to study the conditions in that country. The undertaking was that if the miners submitted a favourable report they would migrate to Russia at the employers’ expense. The miners found, according to the schoolmaster accompanying them as interpreter, that a Soviet official had. been detailed to watch what they did, and they did not see overmuch. The party found that people were housed in single rooms and that typhus was rampant. Though the miners worked a sixhour day, their wages were of the lowest. 4 Meat prices were four times above those charged in Britain, and fish could not be obtained. Clothes were very dear, and only black bread was obtainable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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150LIFE IN RUSSIA Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 251, 21 September 1929, Page 9
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