Bedford
4th February 1987
DEAR Prime Minister........
I am writing to you as I am very have-to doe with about publicity the of child labour issue has been Receiving. As you are aware children are employ in a range of jobs for example, Trapper, Hurrier, Thrusters, and the getter.
The trapper was often the youngest member of the family working underground. Their job was mere(a) - to open and close the wooden adits (trap doors) that allowed fresh air to ascend through the mine. They would usually sit in total vestige for up to twelve hours at a time, waiting for the door to open and let the blacken tub through. It was not badly work but it was boring and could be very dangerous. If they vicious asleep, the safety of the whole workings could be affected.
The sr. children and women were employed as hurriers, pulling and pushing tubs full of coal on roadways from the coal face to the pit-bottom. The younger children worked in pairs, one as a hurrier, the other as a thruster, but the older children and women worked alone. Hurriers would be harnessed to the tub, and thrusters would help hurriers by pushing the tubs of coal from behind with their hands and the tops of their heads. The tubs and the coal could weigh oer 600kg, and would have to be moved through roadways which were often lonesome(prenominal) 60-120cm high.
Getters were the oldest and toilsomeest members of the family, almost always grown men or strong youths. Their job was to work at the coal face bang-up the coal from the seam with a pickaxe. Getters were the only members of the family who would work continually with a candle or safety lamp - as they necessitate the light to see the coal face.
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