INSURANCE BILL
CABLE NEWS
(United Prcsi Association—Bit EUotrie Telegraph,—Copyright.)
TRADES UNIONS JLAftMED COMPANIES GATN AN ADVANTAGE. (Received Last Night 11.25 o'clock.)
LONDON, September 0
At the-Trades Union Congress, alarm was expressed at''the inability of Trades Unions to compete with the great Insurance Societies hi enrolling members under the Insurance Act. There are 13,000,000 insured workers, and the Companies had already secured 6,500,Q00. Mr John Ward, Labour M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, speaking at Newport, the Unions had beem cajoled and intimidated into joining the Companies;- - Ihe Congress, he said, had rerxlvcd to inquire into the alleged conspiracy between the Companies and employers. Other members denouaood insurance as a curse to casual workers. Mr Ramsay McDonald, Leader of the Labour Party, pleaded for more generous treatment of the party by Labour crNirs. The party';; path, he said, had been a difficult one. It had treated between the Liberal morass on one band, and wild beasts on the jther.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10714, 7 September 1912, Page 5
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155INSURANCE BILL Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10714, 7 September 1912, Page 5
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