Call for 'Dr State' (press cutting)
1942 1942 1940s 6 pages out of its district [ ] receive it. MR. M.E. FLETCHER IS DISGUSTED. Call for 'Dr. State' A NATIONAL medical service is proposed by the Trades Union Congress as part of the post-war reconstruction of our social services. This State medical service would dire...
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1942
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out of its district [ ] receive it. MR. M.E. FLETCHER IS DISGUSTED. Call for 'Dr. State' A NATIONAL medical service is proposed by the Trades Union Congress as part of the post-war reconstruction of our social services. This State medical service would direct every kind of medical activity, including research, for the prevention and cure of sickness. And it would be available to everybody. This is one of a series of proposals the T.U.C. has put before the Beveridge Committee, which Mr. Arthur Greenwood set up last year to review our social services. The T.U.C. also suggests that there should be a new Ministry of Social Service, with one inclusive scheme providing for everyone unable to earn his or her living in the ordinary way. This would deal with unemployment, sickness, maternity, invalidity, old age, blindness, death, widowhood, orphanhood and non-compensatable accidents. There would be a flat rate of benefit, plus dependents' allowances. All The Time The cash side of workmen's compensation would not be covered by the proposed Ministry, but would be dealt with by industry through separate legislation. Benefits provided by the new Ministry would continue during the whole period of the incapacity for which provision is made, instead of, as now, stopping after so many weeks. Contributions, it is proposed, should be also a flat rate, the insured person paying 25 per cent., the employer 25 per cent., and the State 50 per cent. T.U.C. representatives have already met the Beveridge Committee and discussed their proposals, and the discussions will continue. 77 AND 84 MUST LEAVE HOME THE Duke of Argyll was yesterday granted a warrant at Oban to eject Norman MacLellan, aged 77, his 84-year-old wife, and an unmarried daughter, with all their goods and belongings, from a cottage on the island of Lismoye, Argyllshire. Magellan, it was stated, has refused to pay £3 rent due for the cottage. He said a house at Craiganich, a small holding on the same estate, also rented by him, was over 300 years old, and unfit to live in during the winter months. The cottage was their real home, here his family had been for 80 years. The sheriff held that MacLellan had failed to prove that the house was unfit to live in. He ordered £3 paid into court to be handed to the Duke, with costs. £900 NETTED BY SHARE 900 " Share No. 900." allotted by Birmingham Co-operative Society's Help for Russia Fund National Council of Labour has netted a total so far of £934. Yesterday the second cheque for £434 was re- [ ] Transport House. SUMmary
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