STATE HOUSING SCHEME.

Evening Star, Issue 22806, 15 November 1937, Page 12

STATE HOUSING SCHEME.

SO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In Saturday’s ‘ Star ’ I noticed an advertisement to the effect that an ex-serviceman needed a disused stable or an old cowshed in which to house his family. In this connection I went to hear Mr Lee’s lecture on housing, hoping to hear something definite by which such cases would bo assured of homes fit for heroes and in keeping with their pockets. Instead the address, I consider, was an insult to tho intelligence of the audience. He filled in time with political propaganda and alleged humorous stories. A prominent Labour member of the City Council has stated that the council houses on Clyde Hill were intended for the middle class, and that the workers could have the houses vacated by the said middle class. The advertisement I quoted brings to my mind the following;—“ Scarcely had the last stretcher case reached the hospital when a bleat of anguish went up —not from the battered derelict in hospital, not from the sad-eyed woman in black, but from Lord Inchcape and other hankers. Gone were the homes for heroes, and then started that deflationary policy which doubled the misery of the world.” The policy outlined by Mr Lee only re-echoes the bankers’ cry that we ax-o a poor nation, and so ex-servicemen and other workers cannot afford to pay the rents asked for the homes now being erected by the Government. —I am, etc., Wide Awake. November 16.