MINERS’ ACCIDENT RELIEF FUND.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 187, 15 May 1872, Page 3

MINERS’ ACCIDENT RELIEF FUND.

To the Editor of the Thames Guardian. Sib. —What is “Odd Fellow” trying to say in his “Big” letter. I saw in his first letter a marked feeling of prejudice towards the committee of the Miners’ Accident Relief Fund. I accused him of it. I also accused him of casting a slur on the committee in the same letter. In yesterday’s Guardian he brings out a whole column of matter in which he says at the commencement: —“lean assure ‘T’ that without any prejudice whatsoever I have watched the progress of the Accident Fund &c.” In the same letter he confesses twice over his prejudice to this committee, in his winding up of what he has been “informed,” which I again beg to tell “ Odd Fellow” in particular and the public in general is simply nothing till it has been proved. Will “ Odd Fellow” inform the public the name of this mine manager. What does “Odd Fellow” mean by insinuating tlist the committee raise money from the public for one purpose and dispose ot it for another, also that the committee could speculate in scrip with the same money. The £25 given to the hospital was a subscription to that institution. Neither are there any salaries paid out of this fund ; the whole of the subscriptions go to the entire benefit of the society. The rest of the “Odd Fellow’s” letter is a bungle, and not worth reading. The whole gist of “ Odd Fellow’s ” letter is contained in the paragraph which says, “ If any one is desirous of providing fora time of need, let him join the Odd Fellows,” etc., etc. I do not blame “Odd Fellow ” for trying to induce persons to join his society, but let him do it in a proper manner, and not try to injure a society which has been formed for an excellent purpose, and which provides for cases not contemplated in the rules of the Odd Fellows’ Society. As to his statement that there is no office nor are there any trustees, lie ought to make proper inquiries before he ventures on such an assertion.—l am, &c., T. May 14, 1872.