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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 22. 4th September 1974

[Letter from Exploited student]

Dear Sir,

Drawing of a knight holding a giant fountain pen

The Coalition Government under Forbes fought the depression by following the negative recommendations of businessmen—cut every possible item of expenditure. Instead of devising ways of maintaining production and incomes and reducing imports which NZ could produce, these bourgeois anti-humanists advised drastic deflation, which as history witnesses, led to mass misery, oppression, exploitation and slavery of the NZ working class. No wonder they rioted. Those least able to bear the burden were the pensioners, hospital patients, school children, widows, the family man. Yet they were asked to bear it. The poor grew poorer.

Fortunately these sorts of things don't happen anymore. But wait! This deflationary programme to beat depression has been enacted very recently. Hasn't the BBC administration drastically cut all cafeteria expenditure in an effort to cut costs? Hasn't production been cut, staff dismissed, food imports restricted? Salaries haven't been cut however. Ginger Jordan still gets his $11,000 p.a. plus a $6000 car to run a pic-shop. BBC hasn't cut his salary to help cut costs. And who pays their bloody salaries? Us poor students. And who suffers from these bourgeois, oppressive measures? Us poor students, the least able to bear the burden. Watch out G.G. and BBC, riots are just around the corner. Who will lead us?

Exploited student