THE WINTER DISTRESS LEAGUE [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Knowing so well your sympathy for those who want work, and cannot find it through no fault of their own, I would ask you to put before your readers an appeal for help from the Winter Distress League.
The League has on its books a long, long list of men in desperate need of work, all of them with wives and young children. A small number of men are already employed under the League's Employment Schemes, but the number is woefully small owing to lack of funds, and the waiting list grows longer every day. If your readers could see the despon- dency and hear the often tragic stories of these many men who most genuinely desire work, I feel sure that their hearts and purses would be opened, and the League would be enabled to transfer many men from the waiting list to the wages list, and thus bring happiness to many homes where it has long been a stranger.
The best New Year cheer to these homes is the promise of a job to the wage-earner. As a member of the Council of the League since its foundation, I can speak for its work, which is both human in sentiment and eminently practical in method. The head office of the League is at 23 Bedford Row, London, W.C. 1, but all donations should be sent to the Hon. Mrs. Rupert Beckett, 20, Hanover Square, W. I, who is making a special appeal for 1100,000 for the Winter Distress League.—
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