LABOR AND INSURANCE.
v . LABOR. I "'AN ALLEGED -CONSPIRACY,.:, j By Cable —?ress Association—Copyrig-kjt., ; .Reeeived. fi, 11.25 p.m. ' ;, > London, September 6.1 Tlie Trade Unions are alarmed at their inability to compete with the great in- : surance societies in enrolling -members : ■ under .the i insurance Act. There -sirethirteen million insured' ; workers* and- the companies haVe already secured six rind-a-lialf million. r; Mr. Ward, a member of the House of' Commons, speaking at Newport, said that the unionists:vvero' cajoled and in-'-timidated into joining the companies, 1 '■ The Trade Union Congress resolved to 1 enquire into *the alleged conspiracy be-' tween the companies and the employes) Other members denounced insurance As a curse, to 'casual workers. j Mr. Ramshv McDonald, M.P., pleaded' for more generous treatment of the party by Labor critics. The party's path was very difficult. It had to tre'Hd between a Liberal morass on the one hand and a wild beast on the other. >
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 95, 7 September 1912, Page 5
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154LABOR AND INSURANCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 95, 7 September 1912, Page 5
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