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CORRESPONDENCE. I We do not hold ourselves responsible fot thp opinions of our correspondents. The Lord Roberts Memorial I- Workshops for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors. AN APPEAL TO THE BARMOUTH RESIDENTS. To the Editor. I Sir, The members of the Soldiers and Sailors Families Association in Merioneth have been IlAhed to collect funds for tbe above aud hope to LtmkeVt house to bouse collection during the next fortnight or three weeks. The Barmoutb members feel sure that their neighbours, who have given so long and so generously to our Allies, the Belgians, will, not be wanting when they are asked to contribute towards anything that will be for the benefit of our brave soldiers and sailors who have given so much for us in this terrible war. These factories are specially equipped and fitted with machines and adapted to the use of the maimed. There are machines, workable by men without one arm, others for legless men, others for men partially paralysed so that the men in these shops become as useful as many an able-bodied worker. The shops, once the initial cost of acquisition and fitting with machinery is completed, pay their own way and ensure perma- nent employment under happy condi- tions. The mpn not having tp compete with I the able bodipd men under unequal conditions, respond to the training and become a valuable asset to the com- merce of the Empire, whereas exper- ience has taught us that the cripple, left to seek work under usual circuin- stances, frequently losses his jobs from di sability and quickly loses heart and drifts to leading a useless life on his pension. In these days of shortage of men the value of these men's work under proper organisation is not a force to be lightly turned aside. The nation would profit enormously by getting cheap manufactured articles needed daily in every home, made in England, and not imported from Germany. Each additional workshop will mean further development of home industries and less room in the market for foreign articles, whilst the men, infused with the idea that if he cannot fight any longer in the trenches, can still fight the war on trade lines, will be eager to turn out work that will bold its own in any market. K. A. PATCHETT, I President S. & S. P. A. Ardudwy-is-Artro Division.

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