18 OCTOBER 1924, Page 11

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Might I venture to

inform you how wholeheartedly I and many life-long Conservatives concur in your pronounce- ment of Unionist policy in all the points enunciated in your article of this week, but particularly in the Referendum and Universal Insurance and the supersession of pauperism? I was deputed a week ago to bring forward a motion at the forthcoming Scottish Unionist Conference in Glasgow on behalf of the East Fife Association beseeching Mr. Baldwin to be more definite in his programme for improving the social condition of the wage-earner. We have now read his further development of poliey, but it is still very nebulous and nega- tive, and lacks such a free and frank declaration as is contained in your article of how he would set about doing scinething to ameliorate the condition and prospects of the working