Evening star., 1926-11-19
Cites Many Sufferers.
Plea to British Nationals TO
Children of Welsh Miners.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Will you please permit me. through
the columns Of your paper. to address
an appeal to the residents Of British
birth in your city. on behalf OF tne
children of the miners in the welsh
ooalfields? So many requests for cnar-
table contributions are made 10
Americans that do not feel that this
fs q case for their consideration. am
Of the opinion that our own people,
once they know Of the need, will come
forward and do what IL necessary.
To those of you who have left the
British Isles to achieve q happier fu-
ture in this great land Of opportunity,
/ want to say o few words regarding
the terrible conditions existing In some
of the coalfields, more particularly
those In the Rhondda district OF South
Wales.
Many of you are we'll acquainted
| with the dire poverty In which the
coal miners and their families live. even
II the most prosperous times OF the
industry, but the coal strike has lasted
some six months now, and many tnou-
"a nds Of miners are being forced back
to work for wages that are best de-
scr1bed as starvation pay. but 1t Is
for the sake Of the women and chill
dren they are doing so.
The Board Of Educa tion of Rhondda
has been taking care OF the children
from it's own funds. and feeding some
$4,000 of them three times per day:
it has spent $176 900 on this work ana
is now at the end of it's resources. and
unless help is received from some
outside agency it means that these
$4,000 little children will be reduced
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The need is not only for the barest
| necessities of food, but with the ad-
vent of cold weather shoes and warm
clothing are very badly needed.
The Rhondda district Is badly hit
by the strike. as 1t is in the very
heart of the Welsh coalfields. and is.
therefore, purely a one.industry dis
trict. so that there is nothing the
miners can do to earn a single penny
till the mines reopen.
have suggested taking this
mea ms to let our own people know
of the plight of these little. fellow
| countrymen. as / am sure they only
need to be told. and they will come
forward with a generous response at
! once, as the need is pressing and
dema nds immediate action.
Very Rev. Herbert l.. Johnson, dean
of St. Pauls Cathedral of Detroit,
Mich. broadcast an appeal to ell
Britishers resident in Michigan on
Sunday, November IA. from the ca
thedral. and l am taking this means
of reaching those Of you who DID
not get the deans message.
This is a matter of vital concern
to every one of us Britishers and
1t should be q matter of pride with
us to see to it that it Is unnecessary
for the folks at home to appeal to
outsiders to help the great British
empire.
To those Of you who are parents
/ bespeak your especial consideration
and support on behalf OF these little
helpless creatures. Not one penny
of this fund will. be used in any way
in support of the strike or for the
maintena nee Of adults, but only for
the children who so badly need even
the very barest necessities.
1t Is but a little time now to the
great children's festival, the greatest
of all the year in the childish mind.
Christmas We wish 1t were possl-
BILE to bring good cheer to these little
ones at such season. but we can
only hope at best to bring the barest
necessities to them.
A. NJ, B. d.. dean of st. Paul's Ca
thedral. Detroit Mich. will receive
and acknowledge all contributions to
this fund. Will you not sit right
down now and help us to bring to
these children some idea of what
Christian charity means? History
has shown that the British empire
in times Of stress can always depend
on its sons and daughters in every
corner of the globe to rally TO her
support Let us show the world we
have not forgotten how, and we
aren't down and out yet. by put
tinr our shoulders to the wheel and
| taking care of this obligation.
To give quickly is as good as CIV
| ing twice.
RUFUS J. RUGLEN.