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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3849, 25 September 1928, Page 2

(To the Editor). Sir, —May I, at this juncture, be again granted the use of your columns, in order to again take up the cause of my fellow workers, moreso as they are in danger of being involved in turmoil at the dictates of a few individuals, whose stupidity after keeping the mills idle for months had the effect of compelling us to accept what we were offered in the first place. Now, sir, in writing these, and other lines previously, my object is to try and effect the betterment of the genuine toilers in Foxton, and I shall continue to do so irrespective of any Union official or outside Labour politician. It need cause no surprise if in the near future a local organisation is brought into being that will eliminate the present autocratic regime, as I know for a fact that such would be welcome to a large number. Now, at this period, I would point out to the readers of this letter the action of the Secretary in refusing the Mayor and the press representative admittance to the meeting on Friday night. What in the name of common sense has that act benefited us? Was there something the public should not know? I say yes; and further, I say the local men were not told the whole truth, and that certain facts, which I shall put before them through these columns, were kept back from them. I may also expose how a certain person gained access to the books of a certain firm of millers, on which he based his desire to have publicly produced, and which caused all the idleness in the industry. In any case, he .can blame himself for making the statement publicly. To the local men I say this: do not be led at the dictates of an individual who is pandering to the extreme element in Shannon. What has Shannon, or Palmerston, got in common with local affairs? Absolutely nothing. Is it not a fact that a week previous to calling for local nominations to the recent conference, that the names of delegates were, wit-li one exception, published in a Palmerston paper? Cut and dried. Calling nominations locally was but a smoke screen. In the meantime I shall write up the facts that have been kept from the local men as to the alleged victimisation of delegates to that conference, and in order to do so, it will be necessary to publish some questions that were put to those delegates, and their answers, and let the men judge the case in their own minds —not at the dictates of an official who is the servant of the Union, but who assumes the role of the big chief; and it is such actions as were used last Friday night to'obtain secrecy that makes one wonder what would happen if Labour came into power. Finally, or for the present, I say to my fellow toilers: sit pat till you hear the facts in connection with the subject of Friday night’s meeting.—Yours, etc., FIBRE. P..S. —To the secretary and his few pals I would point out that the art of writing a letter is not the sole possession of one individual in Foxton.—Fibre.