DILL PROPOSES AID FOR STATE OLD-AGE PLANS
DILL PROPOSES AID FOR STATE OLD-AGE PLANS Would Give $10,000,000 Aid to Slates to Help Old Age Pension Cause (Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON—An annual federal apprcpriation of $10,000,000...
...This bill sets up the legislative and administrative machinery for establishing the plan of coopeiation...
...This bill proposes an appropriation of only $10,000,000 annually...
...DILL PROPOSES AID FOR STATE OLD-AGE PLANS Would Give $10,000,000 Aid to Slates to Help Old Age Pension Cause (Special to The Progressive] WASHINGTON—An annual federal apprcpriation of $10,000,000 to assist ."lates in establishing systems of old flge pensions is proposed in a bill Introduced by Senator Dill, of Washington...
...This wfis assured Tuesday when the senate adopted the house concurrent j—nlntlnn »v*jm/<ln»i him...
...Olive, 111., where several union miners lost their lives, a quarter of a century ago when they were attempting to organize...
...Mother Jones is Cheered as She Approaches 100 Beloved Trade Unionist Gets Messages from All Parts of Country WASHINGTON—JMother Jones, veteran trade unionists is cheered in...
...At a later date a system of raising revenue to maintain it and also a plan of Gov-ernment participation in some form of old-age retirement should be provided...
...I will be 100 years old May 1," she said...
...Robert M. LaFollette will be Invited to address the state legislature on Muscle Shoals an-1 Its relation to the south...
...What have I to leave...
...All this must be a great comfort and consolation in these hours...
...The poorhouse as an instituiton should be relegated to the past...
...This week her friends became alarmed over her condition, and suggested that she send for an attorney to prepare her will...
...Before leaving for the South last week, Win...
...She was pleased to receive a letter from Senator Borah, who said, in part: "You have added joy to the lives of others...
...she asked...
...Green, president A. F. of L., assured Mother Jones that her wish would be complied with...
...But undoubtedly a much larger sum will be needed to give full assistance when all the States provide systems of old-age pensions...
...Senator Dill, in a statement explaining his bill, said: "The national demand for better conditions of life for all our people makes it imperative that the Federal Government encourage and assist the States in providing systems of pensions to those citizens past the age of 60 years, who are in need of the common comforts of life...
...Her one interest is to be buried in Mt...
...Asked to Speak on Muscle Shoals JACKSON, Miss.—< -Sen...
...You have planted hope and aroused ambition among those pressed down with personal cares...
...I want to be among my boys," she said...
...her illness by messaged from friends all over the country...
...I am going to Chicago on that day where the Chicago Federation of Labor intends to have a celebration in honor of my century of life," La Follette...
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...Experience proves that in those States where the old-age pension system is In operation the cost is no greater per capita than under the poorhouse plan fnd tne results are incomparably more satisfactory both to those who receive the old-age assistance and to their relatives and friends...
...Those who are in dire need should be made comfortable among their friends and relatives when they are old, that they may spend their declining years as members of the communities in which they have been active members...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
