Show WORKINGMEN'S Foreign news items show that the English government bill for insurance against sickness and unemployment was passed on its second During its discussion in the house of commons no one ventured to call in question the principle of the and the comparatively mild criticism that it elicited was confined to some of which may be modified in the Ramsay leader of the Labor objected to the distribution of the burden of contributions to the insurance fund required by the that four-pence a week from he from employer and from the The Labor party would prefer But the chief opposition has come from the and several meetings of medical associations and colleges have been held to consider the The resolutions adopted approved of its main but protested against its chiefly on the ground that the remuneration for medical services was that it interfered with the free choice of a physician by the and that it placed the medical profession under the control of the friendly The physicians desire the law to be limited in its application to men whose incomes are less than a On the side of the the chancellor of the defended his bill with adroitness and He stated frankly that it was impossible to put on an income limit as because many of the well-to-do especially the were already insured in the friendly and could not now be The he would not be able to get a member of parliament to even propose a unless it was a university and he could not find a Lloyd-George said that the laboring classes did not seem to appreciate tho magnitude of the boon to The bill proposed to expend contributed by employers and the state tor the purpose of relieving workmen and their families in time of No great scheme like this could be established without alarming some vested He was amazed that the undertakers had not come forward with representations against a bill which would certainly affect their It was impossible to widen a road without taking a strip of somebody's to drain a morass without interfering with somebody's and it was impossible to widen the road to health without interfering to a certain extent with vested As to the complaint of the doctors about the per capita fee for he called attention to the fact according to the official investigation of the British Medical association in some club doctors were receiving only two or three shillings a head per including and most of them under five It is a great and probably a good that the English government is about to Its importance can hardly be and the people of civilized nations are watching the progress of this the utmost |