OLD-AGE PENSIONS.
[To rue Enrrort OR TUB 'SPNCTATOR.1 BM—Though I do not agree with your views on old-age penaions. I think it is of national value that the Spectator is placing before the country its opinions thereon and discussing the question with its characteristic thoroughness. But in refer- , ence to your statement on June 20th that "in scores of factories and workshops it is already the practice for the employer to make a levy upon wages for local infirmaries," I beg to say that this does not apply to cotton-mills in Lancashire. In our staple trade masters do not make a levy upon opera- tives for such purposes, for the simple reason that the work- people's Union will not allow it. The Operatives' Association permit in some places a collection to be made in the mills for charitable institutions, but it is quite optional on the part of the hands to subscribe. This report of the state of the case which I have submitted to the operatives' secretary is con- firmed by him.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Strutt Street, Manchester. WILLIAM TATTERSALL.
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