POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 9

POINTS FROM ELECTION LETTERS

D. Robertson: "Returned servicemen who have been rehabilitated under the scheme sponsored by the Labour Party cannot now vote against that party without a betrayal of those of their mates who are denied rehabilitation by the present Government.”

"Elector": “We are asked to make our election choice on.the strike issue. In this connexion Mr Nash favours appeasement while Mr Holland approves of force. ... It seems to me that both are wrong, Mr Nash in that he would break faith with the wage stabilisation structure and Mr Holland in that he has engendered in the minds of many of our people a legacy of hate and at a cost of many millions without any guarantee that the trouble will not recur. There is some satisfaction in knowing that of two wrongs we can always choose the least."

“Citizen”: My long-suffering mailbox is constantly being bombarded by Tory Sropaganda. Most of this nonsense olds up the Tories as the saviours of the country. All of it tries to create the impression that the Tories are the champions of social security. How times have changed. It is not so long since Mr Holland described social security as applied lunacy.” “B. Fair”: “I do not know much about ‘spelling’ as practised on r the wharves, but what I have heard makes me wonder whether Nash and Co. would extend its benefits to other workers. Freezing workers, miners, public works employees, dairy farmers, and others, whose work in the past has been rather continuous, might appreciate having a chance to relax while someone else did their work."