This is the full extent of the most thrifty worker's insurances against sickness and unemployment. Including the fourpence deducted from wages for National Health Insurance it entitles the subscriber to a total sick benefit of three pounds per week, for a strictly limited period; out-of-work benefit of about one pound per week; funeral benefit amounting to about £25 and the cost to the worker is about four shillings per week in subscriptions. It is interesting to note here that Prof. Bowley, a witness for the employers in the Industrial Court, sitting at the present time to adjudicate on the dockers' claim for a 16-shillings minimum per day. stated that in his opinion no portion of the docker's pay need be set aside for these purposes, as it wasn't in his opinion a necessary outlay.
The thrifty worker whose insurances are described above is an exceptional type. the average man lees not insure himself so thoroughly as this, because for one reason he cannot afford to. As his lack of money does not postulate any immunity from disease or unemplovment, just what hannen to him and how he survives the bad periods may be worthy of a little attention.
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