THE INSURANCE ACT.
BOARD OF TRADE REPORT. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.10 a.m.) London, August 10. The Board of Trade’s first report on unemployed insuranceTn four scheduled trades shows that about 2| million unemployed were insured during tho year, of whom previously only one-fifth were insured against unemployment by the employers. The. report states that the contributions aggregated £2,400,000, and the expenditure £700,000. The scheme was accepted generally without much trouble.
Several newspapers indicate that Mr Lloyd George is likely to withdraw the Revenue Bill owing to the extreme land-taxers’ objection. “THE WORK OF NAZARETH.” (Received 8.10 a.m.) London. August 10. Mr Lloyd George, addressing 10,000 miners, declared that while the Insurance Act was doing the work of Nazareth, the Tories were spitting upon it and piling up a vast reckoning when the dav of settlement comes.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 5
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140THE INSURANCE ACT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 5
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