The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . yers must pay the total charges forthe insurance of their workmen against accident. For old-age andinfirmity pensions the employer must pay half, and the beneficiaryhalf, the State contributing $12 to each pension when it is paid. Theemployer is responsible for the payment of all the authorized contri-butions, both his own and the employees, but the la
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . yers must pay the total charges forthe insurance of their workmen against accident. For old-age andinfirmity pensions the employer must pay half, and the beneficiaryhalf, the State contributing $12 to each pension when it is paid. Theemployer is responsible for the payment of all the authorized contri-butions, both his own and the employees, but the latters charges maybe deducted from his wages. Premiums are paid by affixing postage-stamps to official cards weekly. Old-age and infirmity pensions arepaid after contributions have been kept up regularly for 1,200 weeks(twenty-five and one half years). Pensions are divided into fiveclasses, according to wages received. The lowest class is on wages ofabout $84 a year. On this the weekly contribution is about three andone half cents, and the yearly pension about $38. The highest class isbased on yearly wages between $275 and $480. In this class theweekly contributions are about eight and one half cents, and the yearly 290 COUNTRIES INVOLVED. A Brigade of German Horse Artillery pension about $77. In the year 1911 the total amount of compensa-tion paid by the State for insurance of the three classes was $206,-179,000. In religion, Germany is 61 per cent. Protestant and 36 per Jews form about 1 per cent, of the population. The tableon page 282, giving statistical information regarding the componentStates of the Empire, reveals sharp contrasts in the religious make-upof the country, Prussia and Saxony, for example, being stronglyProtestant, and Bavaria and Baden largely Catholic. Education is compulsory throughout Germany, and so thoroughlyhave the elementarj^ schools done their work that the number of illiter-ates in the empire is astonishingly small. In 1912 only one
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