* * * * On Monday Mr. Baldwin speaking to
a large Unionist demonstration at Welbeck dealt with the Pensions Bill, the Report of the Food Commission and the state of agriculture and industry generally. The Government, he said, were quite aware of the danger of putting a new burden upon industry in order to pay for the pensions, but they had carefully considered the extent of the burden before the Bill Was produced. In any case the Bill was an " act of faith." He hoped that long before the subscriptions for the new benefits would be due the problem of easing the burden would be solved and the benefits would be procured for " only a trifle "beyond what people were paying now. Mr. Baldwin next disposed of the rumour that the Government intended to ignore the recommendations of the Food Commission. They fully appreciated the importance of the recommendations and they. proposed to set up the suggested Food Council, not as a statutory body but on the appointment of the Prime Minister.
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