Union meeting
Sir, —Contained in a newsletter informing all members of the Carpenters and Related Trades Union of the impending annual general meeting was the following quotation by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, a citizen of prewar Germany: “In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak
up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unions, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no-one left to speak up.” Just what is the branch secretary implying by this? Will “they” come for us if we do not attend? I think not, and the comparison between the Nazi regime and the National Party is, at best, ludicrous.—Yours, etc., N. P. HATIPOV. September 16, 1976.
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