CLOTHING AND BLANKETS.

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 9

CLOTHING AND BLANKETS.

TO THR EDITOR. Sir, —Can someone solve the problem of how our children are going to get warm clothes and footwear for the winter? Are the children expected to do as their fathers did during 1914-19 —sleep in their overcoats (if they have them) p If our men had known they would have to join a “ Sugar Bag Club ” to obtain food for their children I do not think they would have been so eager to fight for freedom in the Great War. Instead of obtaining freedom they and their families are little better than slaves; they are not even allowed to work for a decent wage to buy the necessary things of 'life. My children are proud that their father fought for freedom. 1 am glad they are not old enough to understand that the so-called freedom is slowly bringing us deep in the mud. Why cannot a blanket fund be started, and let each family pay Cd or Is a week off the blankets it needs? It is not right for five or six children to bo huddled in one bed for warmth, because there arc not enough blankets to keep them warm these cold nights. My children, like plenty of others, have the promise of blankets when dad gets more work. —I am, etc., Motuek.;