23 MAY 1925, page 1

In That Case There Would Have Been No New Burden

upon industry at all.; and Unless Mr. Broad has deceived himself there would have been some actual relief. All the boons of insuring men and women against those risks of......

News Of The Week

T HE- chief Parliamentary event of the week has been the debate on the Contributory Pensions Bill. In substance the debate has -proved what , we- feared—that the savings on Poor......

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, The Minister Of Health, In...

Bill, said that he considered his post hereditary as his father had done the work of a pioneer for workmen's compensation, pensions and insurance. He himself had added the......

Other Critics Of The Government Had Suggested The...

childless widows. If this alteration were accepted only £1,250 ; 000 would be saved in ten years and there would be a vast number of hard border-line eases. That was his answer......

They Also Wanted To Encourage Employers To Institute...

pensions schemes for their employees. If a further reason was needed it was that the State could not afford any more. It was true that a person who began to contribute at the......

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