The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-05
England's Insurance Law.

The new British national insurance act,
compelling working people To insure
against sickness and disablemeut, has
been In force for the past month and Is
said TO be working more smoothly than
was anticipated.
Tho doctors. as represented by the Brit
Ish Medical association. are 3till In revolt
against the act and announce their inten-
ton oil refusing TO attend patients under
It's provisions.
An organization. including number Of
society people. has also been formed with
tho object OF resisting payments for do
mestic servants. The working class, how
ever, likes the bill and has taken up the
great reform with surprising alacrity. Or
tho l3,OoO.oOO persons insurablc before tho
act came into force II is estimated that
fully l0,Oo0.000 have already registered
with the different societies II is said
that the only section OF the community
likely To- suffer is that composed OF casual
workers and old people. Generally speak
Ing. the employee will be called upon to
pay 8 cents weekly for his insuranc the
employer cents and the government 4
cents Stamps representing the respec-
tive contributions will be affixed every
and this card will become in effect the
holders policy. A workman who falls
III Will be entitled TO a weekly allowance
OF $3.50 for twenty-six weeks if he re-
mains incapacitated for 30 long, and to
tree medical attention from A physician
OF his own choice. For consumptivos.
government sanitariums Will be provided
AT an initial cost of $500 5000 and with
an annual allowance OF s.. 900, 900. work
men who break down permanently VIII
receive life pensions of $l.25 per week.
The wife OF an insured workman Will re-
ceire $3.50 upon tho birth OF each child
and working women who are themselve es
insured and are also the wives OF insured
workmen will be entitled to double ma
ternity benefits. The law also provides
limited insurance against unemployment
FOR the 100000 workmen engaged in the
building and engineering trades which
were chosen for the experiment on ac-
count of their lrregularity. The British
chancellor OF tho exchequcr David Lloyd
George. who is responsible for the new
law, has issued A statement in the course
OF which he says:
- For the first time in the history of
Great Britain as state. employer
and worker are now to cooperate to
maintain and to increase the eff
cheney OF the individual and Of the
acts aims TO make provision for keep
Ing the household from poverty; TO
keep the worker and his family from
pauperism IN the dark days OF sick
in turn and to guard against suffering
from unemployment for which the
workman is not responsible
1t Will help the mother at childbirth
and VIII inaugurate great national
campaign against consumption, In
stead OF devotine our strength alto
gether to hshting our neighbors
abroad, We are organizing armaments
to fight social evils at home. AL
though the act has been the subject
OF unscrupulous attacks and Of delib-
crate misrepresentation, I am con-
vlnced that II will be hailed through
out the whole country as one OF the
most benef1cent measures ever given
to the people. And now that the
workmen's insurance act will be in
full operation next Monday. we In
tend to put our hands to the great
work Of freeing the land which was
meant for the use OF the many but
which has drifted into the hands Of a
few-to the work Of freeing Il for the
people and for their children for