MR. ROBERTSON'S POSITION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1389, 15 March 1912, Page 2

MR. ROBERTSON'S POSITION.

Sir,—Your correspondent, 'True Oppo silioiii.sr," must be trying lo qnalif) foi mio of the "best sellers" in the market for pure fiction, if his letter under repli is a fair sample of his usual slyle. Witl: Mr. Robertson's position I do not propose, to final; tho member for Otnki is verj well able to act for himself and to justify his actions without any assistance fron either party. But with the farrago o: arrant nonsense which your eorrespondon pours out. regarding tho meeting of thii union I do propose to deal. Ho state: that "the flaxmill hands have relieve! Robertson of his pledge owing to th< stand taken by that honest and true spoken paper This Dominion in the recen tramway farce." This is absolutely un true. Tho attitude token by The Dominio; or any' other paper is n matter of blanl indifference, to- us, ard was in no wis connected villi the resolution passed a tho meeting in question. Your corres pondent continues:—"The}- wound up Hi' meeting with three groans for Jlr. Masse; and three groans for The Dominion. This is entirely contrary to facts. Ther were no groans at. all nt tho meeting The men were not feeling lito groaning ami even had they been so inclined (he; fully realised that it was quite on tb tapi's '■ that both Jlr. Massey am Tun Dominion would have causo to groai themselves in-' tho. course of. a fow.. day without having their groaning done bo forehand and by proxy. "True Oppositionist" then goes on ti "suppose that two-fifths of the men pre SDnt did not belong to this electorate as men came from as far away .as Taka pau, Hawko's Bay, Eangitikei, and Mas terton;" Thero were no men present fron any of tho three places named except the socond. One man came as i delegate from Bulls and voted—mark yoi —not for .the resolution, but was one o the two men who voted for the amend ment! "Also, it is surmised," writes tin unconscious humorist, "that one-fifth o tho men present had not got a vote. Well,, round the mills we realise toi fully the vahio of n vote to allow one littl'i 'of our members to go unregistered When the next, election conies, your cor respondent will realise his error as t our voting power, when he sees the pre pent member at the head of tho poll. _ Your correspondent's pseudonym 1 surely unfortunate! For a man to pen ni effusion consisting of two misstatements mi erroneous supposition, and an incoi rect surmise, to send it to The Dominion a nil then sign it "True Oppositionist, 1 either perverted sarcasm or a ennou commentary upon Opposition methods, cannot deal with the concluding prayer o tho writer for Mr. Robertson that 111 Lord may help him," but I can assnr "True Oppositionist" that in any case th flaxmill hands will do so.—l am, etc., RICHARD If. DALnOUSIB, President, Monawatn Flaxmill Employees' Union l'almerston North, March 9.