"A Little Russia”
Sir, —In your report in last Monday’s issue of the unveiling of the portrait of Mr P. C. Webb in Blackball by the Minister of Mines, Mr McLagan, you state that “reference was made to the former’s stand on the conscription issue during the Great War.” Mr McLagan apparently not only condoned but eulogised his predecessors’s action during that great conflict.
To those of us who lost relatives and friends during that struggle for freedom, this does not make good reading, more especially as it comes from a Cabinet Minister. Are we to take this lying down? Is it not time that we, as his employers, demanded that the Minister of Mines come off the fence and let us see exactly where he stands?
In my opinion these brushes with Mr Barnes and other militant union leaders are nothing more than studied showmanship. Is it any wonder that this country is referred to as “A little Russia.”? Yours etc. OLD COASTER. Greymouth, October 14.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 October 1948, Page 3
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