RELIEF WORKERS' TIME OFF

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21416, 7 March 1935, Page 9

RELIEF WORKERS' TIME OFF

TO THE EDITOR OF I'HE PEES 3. Sir,—The letter of "Ratepayer" demands some notice. For factual inaccuracies his effusion would take some beating. Not one statement he makes has the remotest connexion with reality. Respect for your space precludes my dealing seriatim with "Ratepayer's" mis-statements. Suffice it to say, his motto seems to be "nil nisi bunkum." May I recommend to "Ratepayer's" notice a short story, "Where was Wych Street?" by Stacy Aumonier; more especially that sentence which reads. "The basic trouble js that people make statements without sufficient data."—Yours, etc., FACTS FIRST. New Brighton, March 5. 1935. TO TUB EDITOII OF THK PRESS. Sir,—Many of the unemployed with families deny themselves the necessary food and are unfit to do almost any kind of manual work. This doleful scheme is degenerating many of our one-time good toilers and their families, too; they are not fit to concentrate and are only too glad to get a let-up when an opportunity comes. They should remember the ratepayer type when voting. Did not one of our leading councillors once make the remark, "To hell with the ratepayers"? I for one think it was just' in lots of cases.—Yours, etc., GEORGE McCORMICK. Belfast. March 6", 1935.