27 SEPTEMBER 1968, Page 35

The real price

Sir: Many latter-day Uncle Toms, as described by George Michael (20 September), could be freed to serve under chosen masters were the shackles of their occupational pension schemes removed.

Whilst the Government approves such mer- gers as the proposed 'electrical troika' without ensuring the right of pension transferability. for those workers who voluntarily change em- ployers, then industrial bondage must remain. M. Speight Bank Top, Wyndley Lane, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire