21 OCTOBER 1911, Page 12

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—I observe in the Spectator and numerous other papers that it is taken for granted that the working classes of England understand about the Insurance Bill. Such an inference is, to my mind, wholly incorrect, for, firstly, I have found that none of my servants had even heard of it, and further inquiry has elicited the same results in the establish- ments of most of my friends. Surely—and it is wholly beside the point as to the polities of the master—it behoves every employer of labour, as also perhaps the political party authorities, to bring to the notice of their employees the fact that from May 1st next they will have to subscribe their moiety. My own servants consider it a " shame."—I am, Sir,