The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-18
Few in England Will Oppose
Measure
SOME CASES OF HARDSHIP
However, Reported--Casual Workers Hit
in This RESPECTFULLY Mails
Voice Is Raised Loud in
Protest.

/ New York, July ls.A special to Tn,
Times from London says the conserva
tive newspapers continue bitterly to at
tack Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd
Georges insurance act, and declare thai
it is causing loss of work to the classes
that it is designed specially to benefit
The Daily Mail yesterday began col
umn article by saying:
"The second days working of tn,
chaotic insurance act gave further in
dications of the hardship it will caus,
among the employed classes who arr
least able to bear the misfortune The
Daily Mail continues:
| 1.-The scheme that is to cost S25 600,
900 a year in administration. large
part of which will be paid by its victims
| themselves, has already begun to de,
stroy employment Among the first t.
| lose their situations are older men III
| workshops and women out workers
People are doing without servants and
charwomen, walters who are engaged by
the day, casual employees in many in.
| dustries, and such of the lowly paid
as sandwichmen, are the first to feel
the pinch of the enormous new taxes.
most striking instance of the bad work
ing OF the act. Some hundreds Of these
men were employed on Monday, and the
employers, who, says the Daily Mail.
were unable to understand their respon-
sibilities under the act, had not affixed
their tax cards stamped for Monday.
They said they could not, and got no
work. An employer will not pay twelve
cents out of his own pocket as the act
says he must. to the likes Of sandwich
men. whose wages are twenty light cents
day for one days labor
In the absence Of a pooling scheme
between employers to share the taxes,
these classes Of men, ii is asserted, will
receive practically no employment.
In this connection it must he ex-
planned that pooling schemes to provide
for just such classes of casual labor are
being arranged by the Board OF Trade,
with the double purpose of adding the
proper working Of the insurance act and
of providing labor exchanges to de.
easualize to some extent casual labor.
The strike which started at Liverpool
on Monday arose from the fact that the
lockers misunderstood the pooling plan
Hi0Bdethf AAe lttiGuttN
was settled. As against the reports
published in the conservative press. it il
necessary to set forth information gath.
cred by Liberal organs such as the Man
chester Guardian, which declares that
the insurance act has come into force
with good auguries of success.
DIR. MacNamara, one of Mr.. LLOYD
Georges stanchest friends, admits that
there has been some light confusion
from the inception of u
great constructive piece OF legislation"
but says that there has been much less
confusion than at the time Of the in
PRODUCTION Of Joseph Chamberlains
workmen's accident insurance act, the
benefits Of which nobody now thinks OF
questioning.
Perhaps the most significant fact il
that several papers which fought the in
surance act tooth and nail until recently
are now moderating their antagonism.
For instance. the Daily Telegraph ac-
that there is no evidence of |
any national opposition to the insur-
ince law, and loosely suggests that this |
fact is due to the heat.