The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-12

you most earnestly to welsh my
 words.
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 Yet the British have. and have had for years, a, much more for7vaTztl-Iook- ing attitude toward labor than we have.
 Tn l897 by the Workmen's Com Densaton Act, they adopted the plan of accident insurance, obItging the employer to pay compensation on prescribed scale to the victims of aa1i- dents received in their employment. or to their dependents
 Old Age Pensions.
 h 1908, they ado7t~d a plan for Provision by insurance for the ased poor, so that every wuEe-carner oE seventy whose yearly income from other sources does not exceed 3l l-Z pounds. and who has not failed ill his o-lEa-.ou to the community by working steadily, may receive pen sion. .ut in ny opinion. they error iH auaerdc-1g the amount of aHis, making is maximum only Ere sh-.- InEs a week, and tncg surrounded 1t with Limitations of doubtful vision. such as the one that a lahorer must have lived in the United Kingdom durIHg twenty y.r~s preceding the date of his appii-.Eoa-
 h 1912 they followed Ge~rlaay-s example by adopting a national in sura1ce act Irsursue agaIns5 st.,fezs and they later incorpo- led into tn. act being the first nation to taka 1.tr,5 step, insurance against une1ap.o.- ment but only in certain trades. gf something over two million or wage earners. the thing being considered experimental. In connection with this, they established national elu- pIoynent exchanges which. startine at about 400. now with their agencies Constitute a chain of g out 1400. all over the United Kingdom, thes5. being designed to bring the muniess sse and the johless man toge her and to i provide the authorities s.ith irfor-na- ton respecting industry in the coun- i try. Under the Employment Act i each enpIoye pays five cents a week, I each employer the same amount and l the Government adds one-third as a l subsidy and the wage-earner who ! cannot gel employment is entitled to seven shilljnEs Q week for fifteen i weeks in the year.
 , ErbBo,J ,J3U unemployed. These employment agencies or bu- l reaus should. and probably will be- 1 of real assistan-e in the United King 1 donls demoblliaadon, as they were 1 during the war. In 1917 they were l notified of 100000 vacancies and filled over 1,500, ,000 of this number i But the present crisis is too serious to ! be cared for in this way. Thomas the railroad labor leader, estimates that there are already 1,00G 600 of unemployed wage-earners in the United Kingdom, and the Ministry of Labor has an0nunced a national in dustrial conference to be convened tomorrow at Westminster. The grea, Triple Alliance, consisting of the miners. the railroad workers and the transport workers have agreed that in view of this conference they will i take no further steps towards the tie-up of industry, and this confer ence will be watched in this coun- trv with almost as much interest as in England The Triple Alliance as sert that before the War 12 000 oHa of the United Kingdoms popula. .io1 were living below their subsistence level, and they are going to strive for a national minimum living wage for every worker and for the democrat tzation of industries, so that the wage earner will have a substantial voice i in the actual management and fnan- 1 ciaI operations.
 The Industrial Council plan in l Great Britain embodied in the so- l called Whitley report to the Prime Mini ster, advises the organization of Icouncils. to be composed Of repre-