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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37 No. 3. March 20, 1974

Hoist with our own petard

Hoist with our own petard

Dear Sir,

Anyone reading Salient can see quite clearly that you are left in your views, political, social and otherwise. But as workers in so many parts of the world have found to their sorrow, having leftists in places of influence or in charge of operations does not necessarily mean a better deal for the workers. Obviously the editor and the photographer of Salient consider themselves a cut above the "workers" (perhaps the two (gentle)men (?) in question don't work?) Under the heading of staff they list themselves on top of the list under their titles followed by a list of "Among the workers were" etc not even considering it worthwhile to mention the obvious others engaged in Salient's production. [Who? — Ed.]

Then you finish the whole sordid business by grizzling, and making public a nasty little dig at Patsy's non-cleaning of the office. Sad isn't it? However, I send you my

Kind regards

Ray Grosswain