Old age pensions : are they desirable and practicable?

Preface

The simple title of the " Pro and Con Series " Z is, I hope and believe, sufficiently obvious in >- its meaning to preclude the necessity of any j lengthy explanation. This, the first volume, is the type and exemplar of the books which are to follow. Its object is to present, by the pens of recognised and authoritative experts, the reasons and arguments for and against J the institution in Great Britain of a scheme 1 of poor-relief which has been widely dis- • cussed in these islands, and of which experiment has already been made in some of our Colonial Possessions and in some foreign countries. Mr. Rogers, long and honourably associated with the literary as well as the ? active side of the Labour Movement, and 1 icting as the Secretary of the National Committee of Organised Labour, is the advocate of the proposed reform ; Mr. Millar, who acts in a similar capacity to the Liberty and

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Property Defence League opposes it. It is no part of my duty to attempt to decide with which of these trained and tried gladiators the palm of victory remains. The public is Judge and Referee.

H. M.

The Example of other Nations

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