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RACKET FOR MOTHERS
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 4, 1941
SCANDAL OF THE JOY-TRIP' EVACUEES
A FREE-TRIP-TO-THE-COUNTRY RACKET AT THE NATION'S EXPENSE IS BEING WORK- ED BY SOME MOTHERS, SENT WITH THEIR CHILDREN TO THE SAFE AREAS.
According to investigations, certain mothers have gone to five different districts within twelve months.
Backwards and for-¡ wards they go the shuttlecocks of evacua- tion-coolly picking the pockets of taxpayers as they joy-ride around Bri- tain.
b llets by special train.
If they like their new homes and the weather is fine, they
week, a fort may stay for a
If it night perhaps a month. doce not sult, or they grow tired of the country
or seaside, they quit.
sheets, the occupants packed up
MACRAE
GIVES NEW LEGEND
Angus Macrae, at 70, alf the things and took them has given the legend- haunted isles а new legend.
back to their homes.
"No Room"
has re-
The rector of Horhamı signed the
chairmanship of the set up to deal Appeals Tribunal with evacuation problems. "I the tribunal my- told me. "I have no here at the rectory for
the
Round the peat fires of Mull, on wild winter nights, when Atlan- tic winds owl in the chimneys. children of generations to will learn of him in their time stories,
come bed-
And this is what their mothers will tell them:
It's many years ago now, way time of the second back in the Great War, that Angus set out one April night from his cottage in the village of Ards.
Scorned The Dark
is may be before Here The trick is simple. the way it is worked. Registering selt," he for evacuation in their home dis- room
evacuees.' are sent to tricts, the racketeers
So it
оп goes
through Harti mere area. Recently, when 115 mothers and children were short notice, the chief sent on
had to resort to billeting officer compulsory billeting.
Even then some householders mothers and refused to take in
result the coun- children. As a cil are taking proceedings against
All the lights had to be black- some people.
Is it
fault all the
for fear of German of the led-out then I put that question to bombers.
dark, evacuces?
But Angus scorned the Mrs. A. Stephens, a W.V.S. worker
cffice for Hoxne. and away he went along the beat- and billeting Here is her reply:-
en cliff-top path that leads to the "Most of the mothers we get ruined rock-built fortress of arc decent working women. Lords of the Is'es. Here and there, of course, you It was darker than usual get the exception. Some of the this night, however, trouble rests with the house-edge of the cliff Angus missed his holders. They do not try to footing.
Once again it is usually the foots the return taxpaver who fare. A woman need merely apply for a supplementary allowance to Unemployment Assistance Board officials in the evacuation area.
She pleads destitution. And, almost invariably, she receives a week's grant for food for her. and is told self and her family
to return later for a means test to adjust the allowance.
Return Home
Few come back.
turn home.
to
On the grant at 255. for a child-they re-
set It may be mother and one As
it
me, they enough for rail fares over for beer."
one official put usually have "and a bit
Having found how easy it is: to work the trick once, many try it again. All they have to do is re-register for evacuation, join
gaily off tour.
make billets comfortable.”
REFUSES
TO LEAVE PRISON
•
the
on
and on the
Swam For It
1
Down he fell, 100 feet into the swirling waters of the Sound. He hurt himself badly during the fall but he struck out boldly, swam to a rock and climbed on to it.
There he lost consciousness. For two hours, wet and cold, he lay on the rock.
Then he came round. Cutting his hands and clothes, he slowly climbed up to the top of the cliffs. And for all his 70 years-he walk-
ed home.
Now,
children, off
The "forgotten prisoner the next party sent out, and go of Kansas" U.S.A., refuses on another sightseeing to leave gaol because "he
good-night. is so comfortable and is and local evacuation authorities not bothered by people."
Are the Ministry of Health racket? Far ignorant of this from it.
Yet they are helpless to stop the scandal,
On humanitarian grounds alone and re-register they register
Not for the sake of the mothers, but solely to take young children from
these women.
of air attacks.
the horrors
Fourteen years ago Eric Blom- berg, eighty-seven, was sentenced to a year in Washington Prison and fined £12 for shooting at a trespasser ón, his farm.
"I'll stay in gao! all my life before I pay a cent," insisted Blomberg and stay in gaol he
did.
Then, as years passed, Blom- "Suppose there has been a heavy berg's farm was sold for a sum blitz on London and one of these that made him rich, his wife died mothers comes to the evacuation and his only child left the neigh- officer," said a Ministry of Health bourhood, official... "Maybe she has two or three children. Naturally we want to get them away.
that she "The officer knows. has been out four or five times: Should he refuse to re-register her? No he cannot penalise the children that way. For their sake the woman goes off again."
This official pointed out that these cases are a minority.
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Back Next Day
Now switch to a typical evacua- tion area, the rural district of Hartlsmere, with Its seventy parishes and 17,000 population, on the Suffolk-Norfolk border.
I was told of East End mothers who had arrived one day and gone back after a week and of country life.
why, they go back almost as soon as they step off the station platform," said the Rev. J. E. Soden, rector of Horham and chairman of Hartismere Council.; "Some just stop'a night. Others make something of a holiday of it, staying till they have seen all the scenery and grown tired of the country quiet.
Forgotten Man
HARRY POLLITT,
to bod,
BOILERMAKER
worker,
Mr. Harry Pollitt, who adds a proletarian flavour to the up- per level of the Communist Party, Mr Bevin's registers under scheme
jolex-dockyard an -as The legal authorities forgot all about him until a newly. Mr. Pollitt served an exacting appointed Judge found ÷refer- ences to the case in some old re-apprenticeship and in 1912 was made a first-class member of the cords and ordered an inquiry, The finding was that Blomberg Boilermakers Society, should never have been imprison ed and that he was free to leave gaol immediately.
At the initiation ceremony he was enjoined "to remember not to set class against class and to become a loving husband and tender father, as well as a strict observer of morality and the laws of the land." "The A branch president; Mr. Polllit re-
POTATO NIGHTCAPS
AT THE MILK BARS calls in his autobiography, laid
special emphasis on the latter part of
of the promise.
A Mother's Letter!
Britain's 1,000 milk bars may, also become potato bars, it has been decided at a meeting of the Milk Bars Association in London. If Mr. Bevin wants Mr. Pollitt:
Already batween 30 and 40, the Communist leader will find are serving potato dishes, his old equipment in good order. A.R.P. and other night workers Mr. Pollitt's mother, a Lancashire can be seen on late buses and woman of great character, sent trama palling hot potatoes out him a letter during the Com of their pockets, splitting them,munist turnabout of 1930, when putting a pat of butter or mar Mr. Pollitt, having committed garine on top, and having their himself to support of the war potato nightcap. had to cease to be secretary of With the disappearance of the the party. S meat sandwich; milk bars are "One thing I do know," his
and hoping that potato
coffee mother wrote. "I would not loser: will take the place of sandwich my dignity because your mark
Paging-off tools are here, and I have. and coffee,
Mr. Arthur Binsted, an official Icept them in vasoline ready for of the Mille Bars Association, use at any time. Hartsmoro has had bitter said: "Milk bars are probably ....... Mrs. Pollitt had been a political experience of many: London experiencing their busiest time. worker too long not to know the mothers. For instanco," when Throughout the winter some bars uncertainties of party leadership. the councit furnished cottages have been talding their service! She died very shortly after wril- and Suppliöd."' blanketë and to the shelters."
ing this letter.
"I consider that the Government is wasting no end of money under the present system.
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