Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1912 — OLD AGE RISKS IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

OLD AGE RISKS IN FRANCE

Number Who Are Registered Under Law increasing Every Year, Statement Shows. Paris. —Leon Bourgeois, minister labor, has tabulated statistics up to July 1 of the number of persons who have registered themselves for old age insurance in accordance with the terms of the law ot 1910, as amended in February, 1912. According to returns received from prefects of departments, the number of persons under obligation to insure now registered Is 7,029,008, or an increase of 273,930 since the previous quarter day, April L The number of registered persons in France under an obligation to insure Is about 12,000,000. V . The government, it is understood, regards the returns of July 1 as fairly. satisfactory in view of the fact that it has not been possible to apply actual compulsion, owing to an adverse decision of the court of cassation. A new bill making Insurance effectively compulsory for the working classes is to be Introduced in the Chamber next session, and it will hkVe every prospect of jnssing. It Is In view of this situation that the date for the practical application of compulsion was postponed till January, 1918.