LAND MONOPOLY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1826, 12 August 1913, Page 5

LAND MONOPOLY.

MR. LLOYD-GEORGE AND THE. MINERS. ' Br Telegraph—Fre«« Association—Cojyil&hl • London, August 10. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, addressing ten thousand miners, declared that while the Insurance Act was doing the work of tho Man of Nazareth, the Tories were spitting upon it, and were thereby piling up a vast reckoning for this when the 'day of settlement came. , Social reform, in order to be thorough, must move along an extended front. The Government had attacked the poverty of tho aged, sweating, and intemperance, and was now about to march to the central position, jvhere land monopoly was entrenched. The struggle would be fierce, but with' the help of the people the. Government would triumph, UNEMPLbYED INSURANCE. London, August 10. The Board of Trade's first report, on unemployed -insurance states that in four scheduled trades about two and a-half million unemployed were insured during the j-ear, of which previously only one-fifth were insured against unemployment. The employers', the workmen's, and the State's contributions aggregated ,£2,400,000, and' 'the expenditure, ,£700,000.- • The scheme, the report continues, was accepted generally without much trouble. London, August 10. 1 Several newspapers' indicate ■ that Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, is likely to withdraw the' Revenue Bill; owing to the extreme landtaxers' objections. '.