RAILWAYMEN'S PAY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 84, 22 March 1920, Page 3

RAILWAYMEN'S PAY.

(to THE EDITOR. * . Sir, —No doubt the very sensible and reasonable letter of. Air. I. B. Lindsay in your last hridays is»m* will appeal to all considerate and fair-minded people. Much a sugges tion. coming as it does from a successful business K man, _is worthy of the closest consideration, and it- is to he sincerely hoped that, the matter will he pursued further, tul I *>e public meeting eventuates, and not he put aside to go mouldy with many other useful propositions which nave been forgotten. Such a public, meeting as is suggested by Mr. Lindsay would set the, precedent vvhereoy manv vexed questions of public interest might be satisfactorily settled instead of leaving so much .m an unsympathetic .Government. aim to incompetent and expensive boards and commissions. No one can deny the fairness of the attitude of the railway servants and also all Government Departments’ employees. so it is to lie hoped, that im they have stood by the public, the public will now stand by them It many other independent Inisi.vess men of Mr. Lindsay's standing, who have the means and time, were to ucvo.i a 1 Hie, attention to the. r* quiremens ot the masses they "°u- d be doing a truly patr.ot.c work loi their country, tar in advance of howling “Rale Britannia, ’ because they would tend to eliminate the extremist on both ends of the struggle between capital and labotn, and would held to make this m leant; "Gorls Own (Jountiy. ’ Lastly, the Government nt this country and 1G ■ndividual members seems to i-iim* i hi <i< ts sip'tii't ownets and .■tilers. It is high time the people ‘ d the hovernnicnt knini that they ■ire in power to cany out the wishes , f the p< opk as paid servants ot the people, and not as dietatois. Public meetings to considei public ques•ions would enable the people *> keep in touch with t.ieir representatives not onlv in Parl-ament, but also with their representatives m the councils of their own home tovvn.1 am ’ ftC ” H O. LEE.