Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-13

LONDON, January 1-t big scheme
of unemployment insurance will be the
work Of the new liberal government if re-
turned to power. Winston Spencer
Churchill, president of tho board Of trade,
outlined the scheme in the course of a
speech at Glasgow last night, when he
addressed two huge meetings
MIR. Churchill announced that the de-
tails of the scheme already had been
worked out by the board of trade, and
said if the people granted the money the
house of commons would pass COM
pulsory and contributory Unemployment
insurance bill which would deal with the
affairs of upward Of 2,2iOOo adult work
ers, skilled and unskilled alike. The ship
building engineering and allied trades
would first come under consideration,
while side by side with the scheme facili-
ties would be extended for voluntary in
surance aided by the state. The new plan
would be carried on in conjunction with
100 labor exchanges. which were soon
to be opened throughout the Kingdom.
These exchanges, Mr.. Churchill said,
would give labor scientific market and
the advantages which modern civilization
had conferred on all classes. Tho lnSur-
ance plan would improve and stanGardZe
labor and would equally benefit the en-
pioycr and artisan.
Chancellor Lloyd-Georse, at Wolver-
hampton, evidently referring to tile same
scheme, said that lie had put $1",0O,GU
in the budget to deal with unemploy-
ment, whereas his opponents were trying
to maintain land system which was
more responsible for unemployment thai
any single cause. He urged the neceS-
sity Of taking wheat from wherever it
could be obtained. Don't let US, he
said, slam the door in tho teeth of
Providence and say we won't take IT,
Balfour on Home Rule.
With an eye to the possibility of the ma
tionalists holdiig the balance Of power in
the new parliament, a. j. Balfour, the
opposition leader. speaking at York,
glided gently over the home rule prob
lem. He said it was a subject requiring
the attention of all students of politics,
one Of the greatest problems ever put be-
fore the country. Yet it was brought
forward by the liberals as an unconsd-
cred item and as an unconSldered scheme
of legislation. The premier had said Just
enough to make the nationaliStS struggle
for the return of the radical party and
had not devoted either the time or the at
tention which the subject required.
Referring to tariff reform. Mr.. Balfour
repeated that the tory party was pledged
not to increase the cost of food to the
poor. he Thought tlldl a SIldil uuly Oil
wheat, with preference to the colonies,
would deminish, rather than increase. the
cost of bread.
Premier Criticises Balfour.
The prime minister at Salisbury last
night dealt with the humor of a situa-
ton in which Mr.. Balfour criticised
omissions in the premiers election adj
dress, whereas Mr.. Balfour's own cleo
ton manifesto gave only a brief para
graph to the subject of tariff reform.
and. he added, although the country was
within two days of the elections. it was
left in darkness concerning Mr. Balfour's
views on tariff reform.
The feature of the campaign is the
great attention devoted in the news
papers of the rival parties to the COM
parative cost of living in Great Britain.
Germany and the United States. Columns
of figures and statistics are given daily
for the purpose Of supporting or de-
nouncng, as the case may be, the policy
of tariff reform
Election meetings still! are the scenes
of considerable disorder. One at Brent
wood last night eliminated in riot, in
which many persons were injured