（解説文要約）
炭坑を逃げ出す夫婦が描かれています。

この仕事を途中で放棄して逃げ出すことを、ケツワリと言っていたようです。

借金でどうにもならなくなった怠け者などに多く見られたようです。

その他、人妻と不倫の仲になり逃げ出す者もいたようで、

後に人事係に捕えられると見せしめに暴力的な制裁が加えられていました。

しかし、人事係も若い男女の駆け落ちには制裁を加えることもなく、

仲を取り持つことさえもあったようです。

 

They are a husband and wife running away from their pit.

Abandoning duties and running away from a pit was seemingly called Ketsuwari.

Such wrongs were mainly done by lazy miners who were in over their head in debt.

Some male miners ran away because they had an affair with married women, who were violently punished and made an example if they were caught by the personnel supervisor later.

However, the personnel supervisor even sometimes acted as a go-between for young couples who ran off together without punishing them.