The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-10-24
TO PENSION OLD AGE.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAlN'S PLAN POP
ULAR M ENGLAND.

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| allotment but fla .lsa of fi4 extension
Of municipal mowers IS very papulnr wi.b
! p,,u, There i7 q .- neral rpeIi1uin favor
Of tbe idea Of old a 20 pensions, but uoue
of tina p'ops whira have been brought
forward elicit any general support.
Mr. Cbaubellain's plau concerning tho
Ialfpri is that any man or woman shall he
rhle 60 go TO the p1s,oili,e aui OPEN an
ncc,uul either by a small payment or by
n Iarre p9vmeut. This may be added 90
rs convenient. and remaining at Ave per
cent compound interest double he
! amount which the C'uvcramaut now
| allows ON ordinary savings bank deposits
shall. when the c9utributorrcache3 The
az. of CJ. and then only, be with
drawn. I'm the Shape of a fixed annuity
for the rest of life.
But Joseph Chamberlain does not
move without am army behind him.
! witnessed one or his methods at
getting at popular feeling. lie bad
friend very a.' fy call together
number of IT,, ttative men who
might be sunp1I TO take interest
in the question O, oil age pensions, and
while carefully rai taing from setting
forth his own views. Ha asked for theirs
It was a curious pictwc--theca careful, i'm
passive politician sitting in the csnter--a
clean shaven, shar, featured man Of 3D.
with a spare, erect figure, fauitlessly
clothed in gray, and wearing gold
rmmed monocle in his right eye-ant
before him, in a semi circle, types Of
blunt and oulspo,al men from the
rough and tumble Of life.
Mr.. Chamberlain said the necessity foI
doing something was pressing; thatnou'
. of the present means, whether those of
fered by hegoyernmcnt postal savings o.
those offered by friendly societies, wert
for some reason or other able to do any
thing worth talEiue about. Tho first t,
respond we're seve.aj representatives o
benevolent organizations having in
surance features, such as the Odd Eel
lows, the Manchester Union, the Heart O
Oak, which in general conversation ar
grouped under the head of "Friendl,
Societies. These representatives, mani
Tested a strong antagonism to the pro
, posed competition Of hegovernmenJan,
what they conceived to be an interference
with their vested interests, going so fa
as to say that is subsidies were to COM
out of of common taxation for the sup
port a government insurance bureau
the Friendly Societies should have tn
right to demand the same subsidies, too
Mr. Chamberlain showed that he wa
prepared for such opposition but he wa
evidently not prepared for the views ex
pressed by the purely trade union repre-
scntatves-views which are signitican
Of the education which is going on be
meath the surface. First, Ben Tlllett
secretary Of the London Dock Lalorar
interest there is in any such proposal 70
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