NATIONAL INSURANCE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7867, 1 August 1911, Page 5

NATIONAL INSURANCE

OPPOSITION TO THE BILL JSY INDEPENDENT LABOURITES AND SOCIALISTS. J}y Telegraph—Press Association—CopyririU. LONDON, July 30. At a mooting hold under tho auspices •of the Independent Labour party and tho Fabian Society it was resolved to demand the withdrawal of tho National Insurance Bill. Air Philip Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, said tho Bill "-as •meagre,' pettifogging, and ineffective. If Mr Lloyd Ocorgo was unwilling to odd a penny to tho burden of taxation it was evident that the Socialists and the 'Social Reformers must part company. Air George Lansbury. Labour M.P. for Bow and Bromley, said Mr Lloyd George professed to love tho people, while at the sanio time ho was tumbling over himself to save the pockets of tho rich. A SOCIALIST’S DENUNCIATION. “ NO' MORE DANGEROUS BILL DURING FIFTY YEARS.” (Received July 31, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, Jtdy 31. Mr Victor Grayson, tho well-known •Socialist, formerly M.P. for Dio Colno Valley Division of Yorkshire, >-poaking at Bradford, said that tho Insurance Bill, would smash tho friendly societies, destroy the trades unions, said reduce the workers to the position of national vassals. Ho did not think that a more dangerous Bill had been introduced dining tho lost fifty years.