11 AUGUST 1939, Page 23

U.A.B. SCALES

SIR,—Your reviewer of Organised Labour in Four Continents says that in my own chapter of that book I state that the U.A.B. scales of allowance issued in 1934 "involved universal reductions." As a member of one of the Board's advisory committees, I have good reason to know something about its scales—as well as not to wish to be unfairly critical of its actions. I stated not that reductions were universal, but that they were "sweeping." If my account does not contain the statement that some allowances were raised, it should be remembered that I was describing not the merits or demerits of the scales, but the reaction to them of organised labour,—