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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1937
Page
2
London report outlines the British National Health Insurance launched 1911 as part of Lloyd George reforms. It details how workers join approved friendly societies, pay weekly stamps, and receive free medical care, prescriptions, and sickness benefits through doctors and druggists, with employer and employee costs.
Women join industrial action as sit-down strikes spread from factories to homes. Husbands stay on duty while wives operate soup kitchens and support the fight, expanding the family role in labor conflicts and raising legal questions about the tactic.
In Detroit and Flint thousands of wives join a new support network, obtaining nourishing hot meals magazines and cigarettes through a continuous community provision aimed at aiding families and individuals.
The article outlines weekly disability benefits for men and women, varying by marital status, and extends coverage to women with babies. It explains spousal and insurance-related payments, 1925 additions of a widows and orphans plan, and pension rules for widows and orphans including age 70 transfer to old age funds.
A Marian Martin pattern 9189 showcases a versatile wash frock with adjustable neckline and tie-sash. Sizes 12 through 42, with yardage and braid details, urging readers to order pattern and book for fifteen and twenty five cents respectively.
In Paris, the sou dwindles as a petty unit of exchange while prices rise and boulangeries sell by ten centimes. French observers compare American stay-in strikes to their own, noting shared views on property and liberty, and report France’s cautious diplomacy toward Britain after Abdication Week.
Five railway brotherhoods in Chicago on January 21 announced a goal of a flat 20 percent raise for about 300 000 workers. David B Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Trainmen, said the move would add 116.5 million dollars annually. The plan covers the big five unions and follows a week long deadlock. The joint committee will direct units to present demands per contract terms under the Railway Labor Act.
Raleigh January 21 opposition grows among rural county lawmakers to further cuts in automobile license tag prices. They argue reduced tag fees would shrink highway revenue used for debt service, state maintenance, and county roads, potentially jeopardizing federal aid and county maintenance funds. Bills proposing 50 percent cuts were introduced in both houses, but representatives stress the revenue loss could reach about 3 million dollars annually, fueling opposition to tax relief measures.
State Bureau of Vital Statistics says automobile fatalities fell by 105 to 1,058 in 1936. Provisional figures show total state deaths at 35,834, births at 76,869, drownings up from 143 to 211, rail and air incidents vary, pneumonia and tuberculosis remain leading causes.
In Reidsville Leaksville townships the Rockingham county schools were closed for at least a week due to soggy roads from continued rains. About 50 children affected as officials noted roads rendered impassable and conditions unclear.
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