WCP5237

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Broadstone, Wimborne

May 31st, 1908

W.R. Hughes Esq.

Dear Sir

Thanks for you letter about my article in the "Socialist Review". The concluding part is I think more important than the opening, as it deals with the method & spirit of the supervision needed to secure a satisfactory outcome.

When you have the whole I hope you will use what [2] influence you may have with Labour Members & others in Parliament to study the subject and be prepared when the Government Bill comes, next session, to see that its provisions are adequate, and admit of the fullest freedom consistent with organisation.

I am very glad to see that the Report just issued on the last Unemployment Act declares that National as opposed to Local supervision and management [3] is essential. This is what I have urged.

I am sorry to say, however, that Ramsay MacDonald is against my plan — says it is too complicated — and declares that — "We don't want any complete scheme, which no man can produce. We want Local Intelligence Departments, which is what our Bill provided for.,"

And he, I suppose, is a Socialist!

Yours very truily | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]