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wage. • • a general attempt to stabilise the , 8 ' • . to bring the lower paid up to to f'evel of the better paid. . . doomed ter„all • . . .murder the spirit of en-rise" `'Narrirnit, you can't mean tais? °Ile, surely, is seriously advocat1' sh! a rigid caste system worked out to Places of decimals? But — do we actually believe that a successful barrister is really worth so much more than a coal miner? At a pinch we can do without the former, but not, it seems, the latter. Are you indeed arguing that a property speculator genuinely rates a slice of the cake so very much larger than that assigned to the Prime Minister? Gilbert White 24 Ashdown Close, Forest Row, Sussex