29 MAY 1959, Page 31

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-OREADING CAPITALISM

Itt,—Mr. Nicholas Davenport was far too kind to veryman a Capitalist, and the criticism he did make as misplaced. The pamphlet's suggestion of an dustrial Savings Movement to interest wage earners industrial equities sounds grand; but the trivial X advantages proposed to help it are so hedged bout with qualifications that I cannot imagine the w movement will have much success in diverting C more cavalier 'investments' nowadays made so Jxtensively in pools and horse-racing.

Possibly both Sir Toby Low and Mr. Davenport l'ould benefit from reading the report, recently pub- shed by the Liberal Party, of Miss Nancy Scear's Ownership for All' Committee. Its proposals seem to me to offer a much more ltracticable route to a property-owning democracy 1 than do the timid proposals of Sir Toby's group. 1 One essential first step, if a wider ownership of 1 *hares is desired, is to remove stamp duty, which quite needlessly complicates the already entangled business of being a small-scale capitalist.—Yours faithfully,

JOHN LANDPA.1.-MILLS