SOCIAL SECURITY GENERAL PRACTITIONER SCHEME.

Evening Star, Issue 23907, 10 June 1941, Page 6

SOCIAL SECURITY GENERAL PRACTITIONER SCHEME.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —“ John Gilpin ” asserts that I have placed the medical men on the same terms of the right to earn a living as the manual worker. As he neither supports nor decries my contention that they should be, 1 can only assume that he cannot rake up a suitable argument to condemn it. and has penned the sentence in the hope that some other correspondent will come to his aid. As for personal rights held by the tradesmen, could he quote any of them which are not also held by doctors either accepting or rejecting the scheme? He states that the doctors are not compelled to adopt the scheme, and in the same sentence alleges that coercion has been used to bring about compulsion. He has evidently not heard of what happened to the man in the fable, who blew hot and cold with the same breath. In conclusion, would “ John Gilpin ” please quote the portion of my letter which referred to “ the shortage of space in your columns, confine his future correspondence to this topic, to clear statements and not the suggestions, self-contradictions, and inaccurate statements which lie has used as props fot his letter of the 7th inst. —I am, etc.. More Unity. June 9.