POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 83, 5 October 1931, Page 6

POINTS FROM LETTERS

Commenting on a recent article by the Health Department on ventilation, "M.W.A." acknowledges the soundness of the advice, but asks if assistance cannot be' given in meeting the practical difficulties in this climate. If window* are kept open at night, even with the protection of • deep sashes and louvres, wind: may drive in the rain, damping everything in the room. ■ -_ "Old Wharfie" writes: "There aw many hundreds of waterside workers who are walking about without work or money, and for whom the prospect ii very black. These men have not earned in the last twelve months a full week's wa|ei, but they are compelled to pay their union dues or get on the black list, and'have" no work when jobs are offering. I have not yet heard that the 10 per cent. Cut hat operated to reduce the salaries and expenses paid to the officials of the union. Would it not be in keeping with their professed principles of looking after the. workers if these officials voluntarily agreed to a cut in their salaries—the workers have in mo'l oases lost three-fourths of theirs —until times become belter?"'