NATIONAL INSURANCE.
LABOR AND FABIAN IN OPPOSITION THERETO. ■* A RIFT wrmiN TOE LUTE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. "LONDON, July 30. (Received July 31, at 8.45 a.m.) A meeting held under the auspices of tho Independent Labor party and the Fabian Society resolved to demand the withdrawal of tho National Insurance Bill. Mr P. Snowden (Labor member for Blackburn) said that the Bill was meagre, pettifogging, and ineffective. He was in Parliament in order to get several millions a year for tho relief of the poor; but if Mr Lloyd George were unwilling to add a penny to • the burden of taxation, it was evident that tho Socialists and-the Social Reformers must part company. Mr George Lansbury (Labor member for Tower Hamlets) said that Mr Lloyd George professed to love the people, but at the same time he was tumbling over himself in order to save the pocket*; of the rich. [lt was Mr Snowden who flouted the Liberal Government tdr their gilt of old age pensions, and told them across tho floor of the House that his party did not thank them for what they had done.]
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Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 6
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186NATIONAL INSURANCE. Evening Star, Issue 14632, 31 July 1911, Page 6
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