SOCIALIST PROPASALS.

Evening Star, Issue 21620, 16 January 1934, Page 1

SOCIALIST PROPASALS.

TO THE, EDITOR. Sir.—Your correspondent “ Social* ist ” is to be congratulated on hi» letter to the Welfare League to-night.-His opening statement is not one bit too strong. ■ I should: think by this time the league might recognise the: fact that, to use- an old shying, people are not so green as cabbage-looking. 'For ■■ evasion,- equivocation and side-stepping it would be -hard to beat. Time and again it has been asked direct ques-. tions and refused answers. , 1 ask the league was it democratic- a hen it advocated postponement of the last general election. Is it democratic that when we elect men to Parliament, Unemployment Boards, and Railway, Boards should be appointed and handsomely paid without consulting the electorate? Would the league call it de--mocracy ■ ".■when Scotland passed a«i “ Local Option Bill ” by sixty-one votes! to eleven and it was thrown out by? the House of Lords, a large number ofj whom are brewers and distillers—and); please note every English peer has aj claim to a .seat,; but only a few Scottish) peers Sire elected by their brethren in' England, and certainly no Radical has a chance?- All upper houses are now - and always have been conservative—* that is what they are for. I believe there are a few vacancies_ there now,but really I can hardly visualise even having to sign myself Popoffski M.L.C* In any case L would not, 1 prefer attending- a legion meeting for amuse* , merit. Mr Stevens, 7 after the la£t. ■ election in New South .Wales, said that with the reformed _ Upper House no. matter what .'■.majority ’Labour had-it could block their ■ legislation. - In any. case, does the league use infra-red 1 glasses to piece the fog between New, Zealand and England or Russia, as it seems oblivious or callous . as, to what it going on at home? Unlike the Hindoo’s average, I have passed/twenty* three, wickedly persisted in living after the Armistice, in fact have had) the supreme, audacity to reach the half century and for so\doing shortly! will. he relegated to sustenance of 26a; for five, though 1 pay rent £1 weekly* Yet the League can see no anomaly in a waitress’s meal being assessed at the value of Is for the purpose of, wage tax. I want a welfare tip from the] league as to what I. am to do. If R don’t get it I will ask Hr George Ber*| nard Shaw when he comes to Dunedin..-) —I am, etc. ‘ ’ Popoffski. January 16.