Dried peas
Sir,—Much has been written on the efficiency of communism but if it takes a shipment of 18 tons of dried peas to prop up the staple diet of soup for the workers of Poland then indeed it is a dry diet. While
the Port of Lyttelton may rejoice that the consignment was shipped from Canterbury it is hard to digest the comment of the Marxist secretary of the Federation of Labour, Mr Ken Douglas, that the “workers” in Poland are better off than their New Zealand counterparts. For instance, I find it hard to accept that we should ever get in the situation where the workers on the Bank of New Zealand building site in Wellington would be- eating soup thickened with dried peas from the Iron Curtain. Rumania is also going through the same communist suppression where basic foods are in short supply. 'With the White Russian ground into the dust can white live with white?— Yours, etc., L. J. STEVENS. Oamaru, October 27, 1981.
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