THE RAILWAY WORKERS
(To the Editor) Sir, —Many of your readers, after perusing the account in Saturday’s “Mail” of the serious plight of the railway workers at Gowan Bridge, will feel that this aspect of the Government’s action is of infinitely greater importance viewed from a humane standpoint, than the actual stoppage of a national work. The alleviating of this distress should now take first place in the minds of our public men who are voicing the people’s indignation. There we have a considerable number of men, many married, and some with families, literally thrown “on the rocks” solely for the purposes of poiltical expediency; and the head of the Cabinet which is responsible for this outrage prating, in his New Year message to the people, about equality of sacrifice. Silent contempt for political opportunists who have so lightly broken definite promises will now give way in the public mind to deepest scorn for a Cabinet which has ruthlessly deprived women and children of bread and butler in the hope of ensuring for themselves a longer term of office. To be sure, the Acting Prime Minister has first right to indulge in such empty platitudes as “equality of Sacrifice. 1 am, etc., H F Nelson, 12th January.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 9
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207THE RAILWAY WORKERS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 9
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