History of labor legislation in the Scandinavian countries . whioh pensioners might enjoy in addition to their pension at onehundred kr. annually. The bill failed to become a law, but the following yearit cane up again as an administration measure.^ This year an amendment was passed,but the advooates of the reduction of the ten year period did not succeed in ln-oorporating this in the law. The amendment as pagsed, however, has effeoturilyput an end to one unsatisfactory feature of the law by enaoting that, In fixingthe amount of the relief, the looal authorities must leave out of consideration
History of labor legislation in the Scandinavian countries . whioh pensioners might enjoy in addition to their pension at onehundred kr. annually. The bill failed to become a law, but the following yearit cane up again as an administration measure.^ This year an amendment was passed,but the advooates of the reduction of the ten year period did not succeed in ln-oorporating this in the law. The amendment as pagsed, however, has effeoturilyput an end to one unsatisfactory feature of the law by enaoting that, In fixingthe amount of the relief, the looal authorities must leave out of considerationany income or house aooouodation the pensioner may posse-a from private sourcesup to the value of one hundred kr. annually; also that the said authorities nay,should they deem it advisable, leave out of consideration any inoome which thepensioner may have from an annuity, a legaoy, a pension, or a dwelling aooomoda- 1. Tlllaeg A. p. 29*H 2. Folketing 1900-1901 p. H766. 3. Tilltfeg A. p. 1861, 1901-1902. p. 5053 and 5119. 631 and tion ho nitty possoss, provided the value, in addition to the support he may obtainfrom privute souross, does not exooed one hundred kr. Thus the luw as it nowstands does offer a dlroot Inducement to save, until a oupltal large enough toyield a yearly lnooue of at least one hundred kr. a year has been The opposition to the reduotion of the ten your period to five yearsseemed to have Its basis almost entirely In the fear that suoh a reduotion wouldincrease the number of applloants to suoh an extent as to make the annual ex-penditure all together too burdensome to the state. The lower house did notshare In this opposition and It muy be gathered from this faot that the oauseof the opposition was largely the prejudloe and the financial Interests of thearlstocratio classes. After the enaotment of the amendment in 1902, the question of the re-duction of the terjyear period would not down, but oarae up again In 1905-1906,
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