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Show ENGLAND HAS A VERY BIG PROBLEM The labor troubles of England are overshadowed a? present by tho enforcement en-forcement of the Insurance act, according ac-cording to a party of Mormon tourists tour-ists who passed through Ogden today en route to Salt Lake. Most of the party are residents of Salt Lake who have been on a trip to their former homes in England, Ireland and Scotland; Scot-land; and a few aro conerU of the church -who hae come to "Utah to make their bonus. Seeral ciders accompanied ac-companied tho ?arty. The partv Included Thomas Beard-more, Beard-more, Mrs." r. H North, Miss May North, Mr. nnd Mrs. Joseph Short, Mrs. H. Baum. rs. A. James, Mrs. H. Lose, Mrs Anilo McBridc, Mrs. J. Simpson. Miss Priscclla Simpson, Mrs. Edlc Johnsm. Mrs. Mary Celone, Mrs. H. Hendersn. Miss Anton Christiansen Chris-tiansen and Mlsi Esther Hendrlckson. Mrs. Short staged that the so-called insurance act rctently passed by parliament par-liament Is a incisure which was intended in-tended to acconplish a considerable amount of good for the working people, peo-ple, inasmuch a it compels every working man, voraan and child between be-tween the ages f 16 and 60 to pay a certain percentage of their weekly earnings into a, government bureau, where It is placed to their credit as insurance and ud fr thc erection of sanltorla for the alck and aged. Not only do vorkers contributo to the fund, but tic employers as well; also the govcnroenL The wokcra pay 3 pennies (6 cents American money) each wck. thc employers pay I pennies for cicli worker employed and the govcrnncnt adds 2 pennies, a total of g pennlre or 16 cents, Amerl- can money, each week. The accumulations, accumu-lations, of the flrat year is being expended ex-pended In the erection of sanltorla or sanltoriume, as they would be called In this country, the purpose of which nre for caring for consumpthes and other invalids, as well as those too old to work or support themselves. The government believes that the law will compel working people lo save a portion of their earnings as a preventive against want In their old ago and the employer Is expected to derive the benefit from his contribution contribu-tion by a lowering of taxes which arc used, In part, to defray the expenses of maintaining poor houses throughout through-out the land. Loss poerty duo to old age will decrease the necessity for poor houses and slc.c benefits The working poeple, however, do not take kindly lo tho measure on the grounds that the employers are meeting meet-ing the added expense by hiring fewer persons for the same amount of work and so bitter has become ihe feeling i in some localities that public demon-j demon-j atrations and protests by the thou-I thou-I sand havo been made. A number of persons have actually committed suicide sui-cide rather than submit to thc tax. Mrs. Shortstatcd that a day or two before the party sailed, a laborer in her locality received his pay check with the amount of the weekly tax'J 'subtracted and ho Immediately went home and killed himself ns a protest against a thing which he considered unjust. rvn |