NOT A COWARD
THOMAS AND THE RAILWAYMEN
POLITICAL PREJUDICES
(Received 31st October, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 30th October. Commenting on the complaint of the executive of the National Union of Rail way men, Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., said that from the executive's point of view he had failed to realise that the machine was more important thau the nation.
"Obviously their political prejudices," said Mr. Thomas, "and the result o£ the election were uppermost in their ininds. The mentality of the delegates indicated that they thought I imagined that if my wife and family were penniless members might whip round. I feel grieved that peoplo of. such mentality, with their blind political prejudices, should lie controlling the union, which I have made the most respected in the world. They demanded that I leave the National Government, and I would have been a cad and a coward to comply with their demands. They can deprive me of my .pension, but not my soul of independence. I told them that I was th» only railwayman in the House of Commons, and I will remain their champioa despite their action."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 14
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187NOT A COWARD Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 14
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