THE BOTTOM DOG.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16558, 23 May 1914, Page 12

THE BOTTOM DOG.

TO THE, EDITOR. Sir, —Much has been written and said about the late strike, and journalists of all colours cursed the strikers for causing loss and inconvenience to the community. Yet, bottom dogs though they be. the strikers were, and are, members of the community as well as the amalgamated society of sweaters, who claim law and order as their special inheritance. The bottom dogs, sneeringly called “ Red Feds ” by the Press of Gtid’s Own Country, are out for the fight for truth and right, and plenty for each and all; their goal i 9 the lifting up of all workers. They are a brotherhood anxious to aid the workers of all callings, and the aged and infirm, not by sectional or fancy, unionism, but by honest solidarity. Blunder many may, but true progress is the real aim, despite the variegated falsehood of the imperialistic, commercial-sodden papers, Tory or has- 1 tard Liberal, who napdoodleise their readers with the wait and see flummery. The people are far too prone to swallow what they’re told, and he who dares to write the truth is cast beyond the fold in this vaunted democratio land.—l am, etc., JOSEPH GREY.