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Show WOMAN GETS GOOD POSITION Clever Miss Mona Wilson to Help Put ! Lloyd-George's New Insurance 1 Laws Into Effect. j London. One of the few popular j :hings done by Lloyd-George In connec- t tlon with the new insurance bill which Is shortly to become law is the appointment ap-pointment of Mona Wilson as one of the Board of Commissioners to administer admin-ister the statute. No woman In trade union circles has won more esteem by I her work than Miss Wilson, and al- i though she may not be able to make her particular department of the new law workable, because of the inherent weakness of the whole scheme, slia will bring to bear on it more expert knowledge, more human sympathy and , more practical intelligence than any Dther woman whom the chancellor ol the exchequer could have named. Miss Wilson is the daughter of Can- , on Wilson, formerly archdeacon oi Manchester. Born to a position In which she might have devoted her life to the ordinary lnconsequentials of a young girl, she has preferred to devote practically all her time to the study of industrial problems, especially those which affect women. For soma years she has been actively associated with the important work of Charlo Booth, Mary MacArthur, Gertruc Tuckwell and Lady Dilke. ( She was a member of the Home O-flee O-flee "Departmental Committee to In quire Into Industrial Accidents." SubsJ quentiy Bhe was appointed to one c the trade boards under the Board ol Trade, in which capacity she was a po- tent factor in canvassing the chain- ' making and the paper boards trades! and making labor exchanges of practical prac-tical use to the thousands of members.1 She was also a prolific source of knowl-.: edge and advice to the temporary of flcials of the Board of Trade in dealing deal-ing with her sex. As one of the Insurance commissioners commission-ers she will receive $5,000 a year for a term of five years an extremely high salary in British official life, especially especial-ly for a woman. |