What Labor and Liberals have been preaching for years became an actuality in Wisconsin last week. Passed after a two-month legislative wrangle, during which one Senator challenged another to a "duel" with boxing gloves, was a bill to provide statewide unemployment insurance. Wisconsin was the first State in the Union to enact such a measure.
The plan compels every employer of ten or more men to set aside 2% of his payroll until a fund is accrued equalling $75 per eligible worker. Ineligible are workers earning more than $1,500 per year. When an employe...
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