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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 5, June 8th, 1949.

Apostasy

Apostasy

"Students have interests in common with the industrial workers," said Mr, W. B. Richards, President of the Otago Trades Council and of the N.Z. Trammies' Union, speaking at the Socialist Club Weekend School on the 22nd May. Students have a peculiar training in thinking. If many of them think "all wrong" about issues outside the varsity walls, it is up to progressive students to convince them of what is right. It would not be a hard job. "Many varsity students with the wrong ideas are potentially good fellows. I know lots of them."

The meeting he addressed at Otago University recently had "an atmosphere of fascism." Lads who "thought" the way dad told them to "think," came along in droves to stop Richards speaking. They did not succeed. In fact they gave the cause of anti-conscription a great boost—firstly by giving press publicity to the issue, and secondly, by stating in their motion, that they desired conscription as a means of combating industrial strikes! Let Fraser laugh that one off!