BRITISH POLITICS.
A RESIGNATION.
United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copynght.X LONDON, JuV 15. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Kqnip, member for Manchester, has resigned for private business reasons.
THE INSURANCE ACT
Several thousand opponents of tho Insurance. Act assembled in Finsbury Circus. Tho speakers denounced tho measure, a cop} , of which was afterwards soaked in oil and publicly burned. Several bueiness places hoisted the black flag.
APATHETIC ACQUIESCENCE.
(Received July 17th, 1.30 a.m.)
LONDON, July 16. Ten thousand people at Hyde Park burnt copies of the Insurance Act.
Two shipyards at Sunderland are idle owing to tho new time rules in connection with tho Act. Many men in other yards have also struck.
Tho country generally has received the Act with apathetic acquiescence.
A CONSEQUENCE uF THE ACT
Nearly three thousand men, mostly old casual .labourers at tho Grimsby fish market, havo been dismissed with tho advent of the Insurance Act.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14409, 17 July 1912, Page 9
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