QUESTION OF SINCERITY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 8

QUESTION OF SINCERITY

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Facts are ofttimea stranger than fiction, but does "Hansard" seriously ask us to believe his "facts" anent Reform's cheaper breakfast table? Even the poor rank and filer Public servant struggling to make a 30 per cent, salary increase meet a CO per cent, cost of living increase, can surely afford the wherewithal to raise a smile at this. At this point someone murmurs "Bread!" But why digress? The point at issue is, I think, the sincerity or otherwise of Labour's salary motion. Will "Hansard" enlighten us as to how his Reform-Labour victory over the Government would have benefited the Public Service. Assuming that the United Government preferred defeat in the House and the chance of victory at the polls—to salary restoration, then my contention that the Public Service had nothing to gain by having the issue forced at this time will, I submit, stand any amount of analysis. In sensing this fact, and in refusing to risk having the issue side-track-ed in a suap general election, the Labour Leader undoubtedly earned the gratitude of every intelligent Public servant.—l am, etc.,

"COMMON-SENSE PUBLIC SERVANT"