You're right, Robin, it happened. The problem is that a lot of guys
actually think that today's safety rules are a lot of nanny-state nonsense.
Somebody on this list made a comment to that effect and the discussion has
arisen from that. THAT attitude is pretty upsetting to some of us and we
are not going to 'get over' our objection to it any time soon. Those of us
who've had to work under these conditions have seen too much blood and harm
done, waged too long and hard of a fight just to watch the American
corporations and comfortable white-collar society turn back the clock now,
which they are most assuredly attempting to do. Moreover, if you had a look
at the workplaces in Asia and the third world where the western corporations
have transferred their manufacturing, you'd see that conditions there are
far worse than even those of Angus in 1928. Clearly, that doesn't bother a
lot of people in this part of the world, but it should and I guarantee that
at some point we are going to pay dearly for that lack of concern.
Joe Smuin
1. - "Joey, the secret to telling a good railway story is to always try to
stick just as close to the facts as possible." --- (the late) Cliff
Inkster; CPR Engineman, raconteur and philosopher.
2. - The secret to contacting Joe by email is to be sure to insert "Joe" or
"Smuin" into the main text portion of any message you send to him, and thus
your message should percolate through his spam filters.
----- Original Message -----
From: "robin lowrie" <rlowrie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: K1a - 4-8-4 #3101Construction Video
as an observation...we shouldn't judge an old video by 2009 work rules.............just a waste of time.
it happened..................get over it!
Merry Xmas everyone!
Robin Lowrie
Stony Plain, Alberta
