But the plan by which the government pays all may prove even less costly to the employing class, since landlords and inactive capitalists on the one hand and the working people on the other, pay the larger part of the taxes--so that state insurance in this thoroughgoing form is perhaps destined to be even more popular than the German kind.
The most radical provision of the new bill is that which deals with unemployment.

Though applying only to the engineering and building trades, it reaches 2,400,000 people.

It proposes to give a weekly allowance to every insured person who loses employment through no fault of his own, though nothing is given in strikes and lockouts.

And it is intended to extend this measure to other employments.

This is only the first installment.
It is probable that Mr.Churchill's project that the State should undertake to abolish unemployment altogether is the most radical of all the proposed policies, excepting only that to gradually expropriate all the future unearned increment of land.
"An industrial disturbance in the manufacturing districts and the great cities of this country," says Mr.Churchill, "presents itself to the ordinary artisan in exactly the same way as the failure of crops in a large province in India presents itself to the Hindoo cultivator.