UNIVERSAL INSURANCE.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Stn.—The reference in your issue of May 3rd to two articles in the February number of the International Review (published . Vy.the.,International Labour Office of the League of Nations) encourages me to suggest that any reader of the Spectator who is interested either in Mr. Broad's scheme for universal insurance or in any other aspect of social insurance, would be well advised to make use of the information regularly published by the.International Labour Office with regard to developments throughout the world. It is regrettable that these publications are not as accessible through public libraries as they should be. It should also be known more generally than I fancy is the case that social insurance as an international problem is now seriously occupying the attention of the International Labour Organization. In January last the Governing Body, ;which under the Treaty is responsible for the agenda of the annual Conference, unanimously decided that the Seventh Conference (to be held in 1925) should be devoted entirely to this subject. Before selecting any definite aspects of the subject, the Governing Body examined a report on the present- day law and practice in the different countries ; it was then decided that Workmen's Compensation should definitely be included on the Agenda. In addition the Office was in- structed to present to the Conference a General Report on Social Insurance, containing an objective statement of existing law and practice and some indications of the general social insurance . problems which arise at the present day. It seems clear to me that every use should be made of the machinery, which the International Labour Organ;z tion provides for the pooling of theory and experimental knowiecge of social insurance throughout the world.—I am, Sir, &c.,
LILIAN DAWSON.
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