"SNOBBERY" & "VENOM"
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—l have just been reading an attack on the speakers at the protest meeting held at the Town Hall last week in connection with the Medical Bill. For a glaring example of "snobbery" it could not be equalled! So anyone who wears a fur coat, a wrist watch, or a ring is a member of "the cream of Wellington's society" and "a capitalist"! " Dear me! Well, sir, I attended the meeting, and I met many of my friends there. We're all working women, and some of us wore fur coats. I wore one myself, and I worked hard and saved long to get it—not because I imagine it places me in the ranks of Wellington's social circle, but because it is a useful garment to have from the point of view of warmth, smartness, and length of service. Labourites must be well out of date, otherwise they would know that hundreds of their supporters have fur coats, as these garments are not the prerogatives of tlie so-called capitalists today. Being women, we like to look smart if we can, and some of us even aspire to a motor-car —I understand that hundreds of the "working class" have motor-cars, radio sets, and other luxuries, but then, I suppose, the label "Labour" lifts them out of the mere "capitalist" class.
Personally, I was born of humble parents, and my father worked hard to give me a better education than he was able to . t himself. I have done the best I could with it, and in my early youth I was thrifty and did not spend my wages in any sort of riotous living. Consequently I have been able to buy myself a fur coat, a radio, and am now in the process of paying 'off my own home, but because I don't choose to lean on a benevolent Labour Government I am to be classed as a capitalist and a snob! Queer reasoning, Mr. Editor! This sort of nonsense robs the Labour Party of many good adherents —let them eradicate their own snobbery before they come down so heavily on the people they too apparently envy. Let them realise there will never be equality in human
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 77, 27 September 1941, Page 8
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