NATIONAL INSURANCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10767, 16 May 1911, Page 4

NATIONAL INSURANCE.

FRIENDIA' . SOCIETIES' VIEW. [By Electric Telerrapii—Copyright.] (Per Press" Association.) ! London, May "15. Mr Yeo Davis, Tn his; presidential address'to the soYitfiern'conference' 'of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, saw in the Bill the possibility of State interference, which might mean the undoing of a ce'ntury's/work. If friendly'societies safeguarded, the Oddfellows ■ would support Mr Lloyd-George, f The Council of the Social Democratic party resolved, while supporting the principle of national insurance, that Mr Lloyd-George's measure would make the working class bear the burden of iiineliorating some of the worst results ot' the capitalistic system, 'instead of saddling the cost on the master "class. The unemployment clauses were inadequate. The chairman at a general meeting of the National Deposit Friendly Society regretted tliat the national insurance scheme was not' 'voluntary, and' doubted if the Bill would prove the panacea for sickness and poverty that Mr LloydGeorge suggested. (