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Show , ENGLAND'S NEW INSURANCE BILL. fyr v Because, if it works .well, other countries will be compelled to follow suit, all Americans should be interested in the new workers ' insurance law just put through by that indefatigable humanitarian, Lloyd-George, says the Los Angeles Tribune. The law will make the state, the employe and the employer partners in a system of insurance in-surance against sickness, accident and unemployment. The total fund the first year will approximate $135,000,000, to WW'.JJttTH.'JIII.1. Iil.l' Vi III III' " 'M i 11 JinJLii-m .!.' I'lHim- ul..U'. u Jl 1, . I -ni; i which, the state will contribute $12,500,000. The remainder will be I raised by employers and employes, 14,700,000 being the estimated number of the latter. Workmen will contribute 8 cents a week to the fund, women 6 cents, and employers 6 cents for each person employed. From this fund the state will contribute to the support sup-port of the laborer in sickness and in non-employment. lie will be provided with medical attendance in illness. Medicine will be furnished fur-nished by the state. Sanatoria for the treatment of consumption will be established. There was something almost reminiscent to a Californian in the nature of the fight made against the servant girl feature of Lloyd-George's measure There, as here in the case of suffrage, there was a strong effort made to prejudice well-to-do women against the bill. There, as here, some of the fashionable protested almost tearfully against the impious infliction of this boon on the women. Do you remember how protests were made against thrusting thrust-ing the eight-hour law on our women? "How dare you invade the sanctity of our English homes?" declaimed de-claimed the London Daily Mail. Some of the titled ladies are organizing or-ganizing to defy the law. But all this was a largely feigned indignation in-dignation for political effect. The law is a monument to a statesman states-man with many notable accomplishments to his credit. |