COMMERCIAL WIRELESS.

Evening Star, Issue 23384, 29 September 1939, Page 8

COMMERCIAL WIRELESS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —Much comment has been heard from time to time concerning the alleged political propaganda broadcast by Mr Scrirngeour in his “ Man in the Street ” session, and it might be of interest to remember when listening to his remarks on social justice that the privileged position of Mr Scrirngeour himself is an outstanding example of social injustice in excelsis. By continuous repetition Mr Savage and his aides attempted, and not without considerable success, to implant the belief that a Labour Government would ensure the maximum amount of social justice possible under a capitalistic regime, and here is the result—alleged by no less an authority than the “ man in the street ” to be a reward for political services rendered—Mr Scrirngeour received a comfortable job at a salary of £3O a week at the same time that “ John Smith ”• (a collective denomination for hundreds of Government employees) was (and still is) receiving about £4 from the same purse. While the activities of the former produce nothing save added expense to the whole community, the latter is often a producer of national wealth, and may evenbo engaged in the task of making two blades of grass grow where only one, or perhaps none at all, grew before. This, then, is social justice according to the gospel of Labour. i A favourite argument of Mr Savage when defending the ever-increasing burden of taxation is that it is what isdeft that counts, and judged by this self-chosen formula, would Mr Scrimgeour or Mr Savage deny that the mathematical result is incontrovertible evidence of the urgent need for the introduction of a little social justice into the respective positions of Mr Scrirngeour and John Smith, two individuals rendering service to the same boss, having the same needs and the same responsibilities in life, hut with £2G a week between them ? It has been suggested that if the matter is brought home to him Mr Scrirngeour would be faced with the option of keeping off such dangerous ground as talks on social justice or of advocating that the salaries of all Government employees be recast, using the amount of his own salary as a base from which to make adjustments. We shall see.—l am, etc., Social Justice, September 29.