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Grey River Argus, 7 April 1911, Page 2

"Iconoclost" writes. to the Dominion in reard to tho attacks so frequently made on 'the Minister of Railways and .the system of railway management. After explaining away several of the alleged 'grievances, he concludes as follows: —"These then, Mr Editor, are the matters which have been poured into your ears as causes for the intense discontent in the service. 'May 1 suggets 'that so long as the railway employees can get the public press of the country to issue forth in hysterical comment upon such flimsy ground, so long will the same members refuse to be contented. I wonder does it not occur to you to ask how far the public press is responsible for the "seething discontent in the railway service? Or I might with propriety say "the seething desire to get more and more and. lots of. more," But I do saythat this spirit of •'everlastingly holding th Minister and management up to ridicule and contempt in the eyes of the men born on the part of the respective railway journals and the public press is bound to undersap the discipline of the public service to the • great danger of the public: safety. What constitutes one of the 'leading- factors H\a '.the demoralisation of . the service is the example being set 'by 'the press, through the stimulus which it igives to the men not to be contented ,and to look with contempt upon the Government, the Minister and the officials of the service ', when the whole of their everincreasing demands are not immediately acceded t».