The Kate Sharply Library has a review of “Half A Million Tramps” by Bill Gape (1936) which constantly articulates the tension between what an individual tramp may feel to be their rights and what charity, religion and the state decide these rights actually are. In his world, Gape suggests, organized charity can prove to be a cruel and mean thing that suits the power of the giver more than the rights of the receiver.--review by Barry Pateman.
