UNEMPLOYMENT.
STATE INSURANCE SCHEME, EXPLAINED BY MR CHURCHILL. United proßsAssociation-Cy Elootrio Telegraph Copyright. Received August 18, 83.0 a.m. LONDON, August 17. Mr Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade, in an interview, explained the insurance unemployment scheme, which he and Mr Lloyd-George had matured. The scheme, he stared, would be compulsory and contributory. It would be divided into different sections for different trades. The weekly contributions would be 2£d each from worker, employer, and State, It would be the employer's duty to deduct the worker's contribution from his wages. The insurance scHeme would be for regular competent workers only. Habitual idlers must go to the distress committees, or receive, poor law reliet. The assistance given will be less than the amount of trade union' relief. It was estimated that the annual cost to the Treasury would be a million and a half. Insurance will be first applied to the building, engineering, shipbuilding, house building, and construction works, and vehicle making trades. —= I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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163UNEMPLOYMENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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