Unions and strikes
Sir, —I was amused to read Mark D. Sadler’s characterisation of workers as “a less intelligent section of the community.” If Mr Sadler is himself not a worker, then we can safely ignore the arrogance of his elitist bias. If, on the other hand, he is a worker, we can equally safely accept his assertion, and confidently ignore his letter as the product of a “less intelligent” mind. Either way, his implication that businessmen are more intelligent than those who sell their labour power is belied daily by the antics of our businessmen’s Government. Unionists will prove too intelligent to adopt Mr Sadler’s quaint notion that they should participate as junior partners in their own exploitation; and businessmen will prove too i unintelligent themselves to adopt this view to any seri'ous extent.—Yours, etc., PAUL PIESSE. I March 29, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 16
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