LLOYD-GEORGE'S SCHEME.
ITS EFFECT ON BRITAIN.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
(Received May 8, 0.0 a.m.)
LONDON, May 7
Mr Lloyd-George in an interview, said that 30 per cent of pauperism was due to sickness; hence if patients could be prevented from becoming chronic invalids and rescued from the grip of the poor law, the present cost of pauperism would be largely diverted and more effectively utilised. The Bill would affect 270,000 domestics in London where of 250,000 were females.
Women workers who marry insured men would be allowed to rejoin upon widowhood, even if over the age of 55. Men who rise above 63s per week would be allowed to remain members, if they pay their employers 3d in addition to their own fourpence week-
lyHarland and Wolff's officials state that the schema will cost their firm £12,500 annually, and that wages must, therefore, bo reduced, or prices increased.
The Spectator fears that malinger- j ing, both as regards sickness and \ unemployment, is likely to be stimu- j lated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10233, 9 May 1911, Page 3
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