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...Brighton, where the Vigilantes first began to enter and expropriate homes, requisition notices promptly appeared on 60 unoccupied houses. Local authorities were also empowered to license housing repairs to make sure requisitioned buildings would be habitable...
...bowler-hatted chimney sweep, Harry Cowley, 60, called "The Guv'nor," blew the lid off Britain's housing problem. In Brighton, jampacked seaside resort, a posse of 400 self-styled Vigilantes (all local war veterans), headed by Cowley, took the law into their own hands. Into three empty, habitable houses, they moved the families of servicemen. The moving was done at night, with hand barrows, in defiance of the law. But the tenants could not be ejected without lengthy eviction proceedings...
Last week the Guv'nor traveled to "Spouter's Corner" in Hyde Park (London's Union Square) to explain the theory and practice of house snatching. Before his speech, Cowley's Brighton boys gave a practical demonstration by "snatching" an empty house in London's Maida Vale for an Army gunner's wife and sick daughter. Said the Guv'nor grimly: the Vigilantes had put their fingers on one of Britain's aching nerves; from all over the country requests were pouring in for the formation of new Vigilante groups. In Clacton...
Impatient Populace. The spread of the Vigilante idea among law-abiding Britons was symptomatic of their fast-ebbing patience with continuing war restrictions.* The Brighton pioneers, had shown how to slash through the jungle of legal red tape that was keeping usable houses vacant. But it would need more than a practical protest to relieve the country's acute housing pains. There was a physical shortage of nearly a million houses, which only new construction (estimated to take four years) could provide. But the Guv'nor and his Vigilantes were a warning: Britain's new Government, Tory...
...chemicals are sprayed indiscriminately over the shirt until various discolorations and bleachings appear. Then the shirts are ready for pressing. This is the novel operation of the system. The shirts for the Mid-Off school are placed all on a table. Sixteen of the largest women in nearby Brighton then sit upon the shirts until they are pressed into the fine smooth job which you all know so well. Then just before the shirts leave the plant some female flend etches on the collars of all the shirts--on the outside, of course, transcriptions which read something like this, "hc19876k2...