INSURANCE DAY.
INAUGURATION OF BRITISH ACT.
Sr Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 11. S'peakiuj at. the Kennington, Theatre; the Chancellor ; of tho Exchequer, Mr. Lloyd-George, said he did not. claim that the. Insurance Act w«3 the, .millennium, but it brought it nearer. To-morrow, when the Act -comes into force, would 'he known in the annals of tho sick and distressed as Red Cross Day. Already nine ahdia half millions were now members of approved societies. Moro members had joined friendly societies diivinjr the. past three, weeks than during-tho-whole past twehty years: The Government would fulfil :.-its' every pledge. Newspapers note that similar meetings projected by tho Liberal Insurance Committee throughout the country'to celebrate tho enforcement of the' Act were largely abandoned owing to the outcry against the measure. - Opposition newspapers are ridiculing the so-called Joy Day. ■
UNEMPLOYJIENT INSUEANCE. fly Teiegraph— Press Association—Copyright -. v - London, July 14.' Oyer,, half'a million workmen have applied for unemployment books, with tho, object of paying contributions under the Insurance Act. v
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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165INSURANCE DAY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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