THE TRUCK SYSTEM.

Evening Star, Issue 3224, 20 June 1873, Page 2

THE TRUCK SYSTEM.

To the Editor. Sir,— ln your report of a meeting at Saddle Sill anent the Track System, you gave a copy of a letter addressed to aMr Neil. Now, I think it strange that yon should not have given the name of the writer, and I demand, in justice to myself, that you do so, because I can positively assert, without fear of contradiction from any man who is or has ever been in ray employ, that I never held out any threat of dismissal, or resorted to any other means to compel any of my miners to deal in my store, neither was it ever a matter of arrangement that they should do so. Also, I think it a very poor attempt of Mr Pollock’s to throw the odium on myself, by proposing to give up store-keeping if 1 would follow suit: a proposal he knows I would not entertain for a moment, seeing that I was engaged in store-keeping for years previous to my opening the coal mine, and which business is of much more value to me than

the coal trade, although I was never to see a coal miner inside of my door. I think my proposal to pay the men in cash, only, meets all the requirements of the case; if not, others besides myself in this district had better have thought twice before sinking their capital in the business of coal mining; for instance, Mr Charles Samson, who is at present sinking a splendid shaft alongside the railway line, and has purchased first-rate machinery for the same: will it be requisite for him to give up his business as a wholesale and retail butcher, lest any of his coal miners should come to him to purchase a leg of mutton or a pound of steak!—l am, &c., James Loudon. Fairfiield, Jane 20.