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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37, No. 17. July 17, 1974

Battering Ram?

Battering Ram?

Dear Sir,

Who did the writer (s) of the front page article of Salient 15 think he was fooling.

If the majority thought the union officials were worth fighting for and/or supported the writer's unsubstantiated bullshit, there may have been a "march" through Wellington during the so-called 'strike'—one and one half thousand is a number to be laughed at (I for one, jeered at the rabble).

As for the "bosses sitting on bags of money" picture—the words unions and bosses should be exchanged. Perhaps the writer failed to notice that many New Zealand companies are on the verge of collapse, and there has been a large drop recorded on the stock exchange (—yeah go on, blame it on the government and credit squeeze.)

Maybe the biggest fault of the article was that it was all opinion.

I was almost astonished to see some informed article writers giving facts and figures elsewhere in that issue. Perhaps Len McGrane would do a survey on how much of student funds were misappropriated last year. (Or perhaps he might care to name a value for any "surplus items" he has "borrowed" from someone else.

Its good to see some of the motion deleted from articles I—come on the wogs.)

Stephenson

P.S. I didn't know the state was a battering ram.