WINTER DISTRESS IN THE COALFIELDS [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.]
Sta,—Your paper has already done such signal service in calling attention to the conditions in some of our coalfields that I venture to ask for your assistance in making known the need for further immediate help.
The Society of Friends is making fresh efforts, in conjunction with other organizations such as the Lord Mayor's Fund, and the Miners' Federation Fund, to secure help before the on- coming winter finds us overwhelmed with distress such as we dare not contemplate. Our work will be in the nature of personal service in supplementing the more general distri- bution of the other binds, and for this we trust that a very large and continuous flow of clothing and money will be available.
From the information gained by some of our members, who have been working in certain coalfields for a considerable time, we can substantiate the very severe need which is alretly existing, and which must increase the despair in these districts unless large measures of help can bring a sense of hope to bear upon the problem.—I am, Sir, &c.,
JOAN MARY FRY,
Chairman, Society of Friends (Quakers) Coalfields Distress Committee.
40 Temple Fortune Hill, N.W. 11.
Note.—Contributions of money and clothing should be sent to Coalfields Distress Committee, Friends House, Euston Road, N.W. 1,
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