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the receipts were $95,OOO.000. and the
expenditures were ss1 ,OOo, 600. Besides
these two branches there is third
national comp sytem relating to
insurance for old age and inyaliditv,
II which the employers and the work
men each pay equal amounts while the
Imperial Government provides
liberal subsidy. In 1908 the number
Iof persons insured under this branch
was is. 900, 900. the receipts were $6S.
loco, 600, the expenditures were $4,000,
900. while the reserve amounted to-
$685.. 100000 The three systems Of in.
surance have been in operation for
nearly Is years, and the experience
under them has been so favorable that
/ in response to Widespread demand
1.-THE German Government is now pre-
pairing to revise and extend the sys-
item, and it is expected that in few
years even greater results win be-
shown than those now obtained.
A number Of cities in Germany are
now providing subsidies for ORGANIZER
/ tions providing benefits in case Of I'M
employment; this is usually done by
repaying to trade unions and similar
organizations percentage Of The ex-
Ipenditures they made for out-of-Wcrk,
travel etc, benefits.
In Austria the system of worlxmen's
insurance is patterned closely after
that of Germay and provides relief for
cases of sickness and accident to work
men engaged in manufacturing and
similar industries, though there is q
separate organization for the mining
industries. The expense of the acct
Ident insurance is borne nine-tenths BY
1.-THE employer and one-tenth by the
tworkmen. while the expense Of the
sickness insurance is betrayed in the
proportion Of one-third by the employ
Ter and tWo-thirds by the Workmen. For
the mining employees there is insur-
lance for salaried persons, such as
lage. One feature of workmen's insur-
ance in Austria which no other ceun-
TRY possesses is national compulsory
system of old-age and invalidity insur-
ance for salariedp ersons, such as
clerical employees of all kinds; the ex-
oense of this is betrayed partly by the
Esmployer and partly BY the insured
person. IN Austria the figures Of the
|l1peration of the insurance sytem
/ were also large; in 1907 the number Of
persons insured against Industrial ac-
cruents was over 3,OOO,OOO; the total
receipts were $10,5O0,000, the total ex-
lpenditures were 81, 100000, and 33.
/ 500 persons received compensation for
industrial accidents sustained in the
course of their employment during the
year Equally large are the figures Of
1.-THE sickness Insurance in 1907; the
humber of persons insured was over
l3, 100000, the receipts were over $14,-
100000. The miners insurance IN
.l1907 included $4,000 persons; the
receipts were over $3,OOO,Oo0. and the
expenditures were over $3,O00,000.
While in Germany and Austria the
Iworkmen's insurance sytems are high
lily centralized, in France the different
Types of insurance are provided by a
|great variety of Institutions and
regulated by a seires of separate laws
land DEGREES The insurance Of work
linen against Industrial accidents is
regulated by series of. separate laws
1.-THE employer is required to provide
lat his own expense a specified sys-
Item Of benefits to injured Workmen,
land in order to protect himself he IS
Iallowed to insure his liability under
1.-The law in a variety OF institutions
Isuch as voluntary associations Of
lworkmen or of employers, private in
Isurance companies, government insur-
lance funds, ETC. In some industries
Insurance against sickness is COM
pulosry, but in the main the French
lgoverpment has preferred to grant
lcertain privileges to mutual sickness
insurance societies, and those comply
ling with certain requirements receive
subsidies from the National Govern
ment. IN 1910 law was enacted pro
viding for a system Of relief for indi-
gent an disabled aged persons. The
activities Of the French Government
ialso extend to the field Of unemploy-
lment insurance. Since 1905 the
iGoyernment has made an apprOpria.
ltion of about $4,000 annually to en-
courage trade-unions and similar socies'
tiles to assists unemployed members:
The situation in Belgium resembles
THAT existing in France; at the present
time the various forms of workmen's
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