NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13286, 11 December 1911, Page 3

NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL.

(tveceived Dec 10, 5.5 p.m.)

London, Dec 9

Ail employers' meeting at Manchester, rcprosoiuing 207 north of Kngland trades and OOi) firms, urged Parliament to postpone tho Xationnl Insurance Bill on tiie ground that it was neither understood nor sanctioned by the country, and gravely imperilled industries. Sir Charles Ji'iieara, who presided, doolnred tlint to an ordinary cotton spinning compiuiy nn the pi-o-fits of t!ic pnst 2T years tho .Hill wax equivalent to an increase of a farthing in the £ in iuconiu tax.