How wrong can people be in their sympathy? A lot of fuss is being made about the happily retired Leicester railway worker who has just tried to sell his presentation "gold" watch for 45 years' service. He finds it is worth £2. Its purchase price of £6 works out at well over 4d for each week of service. But as a British Railways spokesman puts it: "It is the thought behind the presentation of a watch rather then the value." The local rag wastes its sympathy by declarings “it is only human to hope that e gift is all thet it appears to be....a £6 watch for 45 years' work does suggest cut~price appreciation." After all we've got t i Soy teeknte vce g0t to make the railways
No sympathy has been expressed for poor Mr. Philip Wa ¥ f £74,000 taken from him by the Government Santen a oe ca ase = his compensation for losing his Reed Paper Group managing directorship. Ex-BR-man , Albert Higgins lives in retirement on his two pensions, whereas poor Philip Walker has to go on working and has taken on three etnaxtoraital to eke out a living, and try to keep intact his badly tarnished and depleted nest egg. How can you compare a sham gold watch with the 1 £74,000, comrades? 8 he loss of