AN UNPOPULAR ACT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1494, 17 July 1912, Page 7

AN UNPOPULAR ACT.

COMPULSORY INSURANCE FOR. ALL.

HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS.

By Telcera.i>h--Preßs AfisociaUon-Copyrtelii (Rec. July 17, 0.50 a.m.) London, July 16. ' At a gathering, of ton. thousand persons hi Hyde Park, copies of tho Insurance Act were publicly burned. Two shipyards at Sunderland have been thrown idle owing to tho new time rides in connection with the Act. i Many men * iu other yards have also "struck. j The country generally received the Act ! \rith apathetic acquiseence. i The dock labour joint-committee at ' Liverpool and the Dockers' Union warn tho strikers (hat unless they resume they will lose the benefit of the recognition of the union. Nearly 3000 men, mostly tho older casual labourers, at Grimsby fish market, have been dismissed with the advent of the Insurance Act. Several thousand opponents to tho Insura nee Act assembled at .Finsbury Circus, where speakers, denounced the measure, a copy of which was afterwards soaked in oil and publicly burned. Several business houses hoisted th« black flog. Twelvo thousand Liverpool docker* struck as a protest against the inaugura- . tion of a clearing-house scheme to facilitate the collection of the insurance contributions. ' !.