Industrial sabotage

Press, 21 October 1977, Page 12

Industrial sabotage

Sir, —I am surprised at your editorial reaction to the Prime Minister’s use of the words “traitors and saboteurs.” It is neither the timing nor the emotiveness of this phrase, but its appositeness which really matters — and who, looking at recent industrial upheaval in this country and the damage and hardship it has caused, can seriously quarrel with Mr Muldoon’s description of its inst+ators. provocative though this may be. You appear to bestow an accolade on the F.O.L. Surely you are aware that half the executives of this organisation are members of a party which is aligned with, and financed by, the Kremlin and which aims destroying our way of life and supplanting ft with the hideous Soviet system. The apathy of trade unionists in general is responsible for this disturbing state of affairs. If Mr Muldoon, by being provocative, manages to reverse this apathy, bully for him. — Yours, etc., GRAHAM RHIND. October 19, 1977.