RAILWAY WORKERS AND MASS MEETINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 128, 26 November 1940, Page 6

RAILWAY WORKERS AND MASS MEETINGS

(To the Editor.)

I. si ri Before your correspondent "A Worker at the Shops" is allowed to retire to his "more important work" might I be allowed to state that I conIsider any work is more important than his attempt to stigmatise a large body of his fellow-workers by misleading and unfair statements. The number attending the meeting (GOO) was a count taken on the cautious and safe side, so I know positively that your correspondent was 100 per cent, wrong. In his fresh attempt your correspondent adds to his previous letter by asserting the motion was carried without "first ascertaining the true facts" Well, I believe the mass meeting got nearer to the true facts than 100 per cent., but for the benefit of "A Worker at the Shops" the position is being investigated, and when the true .facts come to light and the men find a mistake was made the correct thing will be done. As far as choice of speakers is concerned the combined committee does its best with the material offering but if "A Worker at the Shops" can improve matters by coming into the open he would certainly receive con sideration at some future meeting The abuse he thinks will be his portion seems to be p. sign of a guilty conscience, for it must strike "A Worker at the Shops" that his efforts to belittle his .fellow-workers are something akin to that which he appears to fear.—l am, etc.,

j. McDonald,