History of labor legislation in the Scandinavian countries . muoh good oan soaroely be suid, are preferred and resorted to. Theexpense of the whole system is defrayed by the communes In the first instanoe,but one-half is repaid to then by the state. Amendments to the Old Age Pension Aot. As hus been Intimated, the law had not been In operation very long Deferadverse oriticism was raised against several of its provisions. The narrow legalinterpretation was set at naught, as we have seen by the Minister of the Interior,but there were several other provisions whloh many held to be wrong. These we
History of labor legislation in the Scandinavian countries . muoh good oan soaroely be suid, are preferred and resorted to. Theexpense of the whole system is defrayed by the communes In the first instanoe,but one-half is repaid to then by the state. Amendments to the Old Age Pension Aot. As hus been Intimated, the law had not been In operation very long Deferadverse oriticism was raised against several of its provisions. The narrow legalinterpretation was set at naught, as we have seen by the Minister of the Interior,but there were several other provisions whloh many held to be wrong. These were*(1) the as to the amount of the pensions, K2) the tendency whiohthe law might have to disoourage thrift, and Kt>) the long period of ten years pre-ceding the sixtieth year during which the applicant oould not have been in re-oeipt of any poor relief. In 18>9>*-5> two measures seeking to amend the law along certain of these lines were proposed. The one* sought to remedy the indefiniteness by stipulating1 1. Tlllaeg A. p. 7207. thut the minimum pension should be 300 kr, annually for man and wife; 200 kr,for a single man, and 150 kr. for a single woman. A sum of fifty kr. was to beadded in oase the pensioner lived in a city. The bill also sought to minimizethe lnelllglbility caused by the reoeipt of poor relief by etlpulutlng that thereceipt of suoh relief would not disqualify a person if it had been repaid tothe state before the sixtieth birthday. The second measure was of minor importance and sought merely to providespeoial privileges for soldiers.* At the session 1S96-1S97, a bill was introduced which proposed to accom-plish part of what the first of the above measures sought to do, namely, to plaoethe parson who had repaid all poor relief before his sixtieth year on the samefooting with those who had not reooived any poor relief whatever. The measurewas defeated, but the question oontlnued to remain an open one. In 1901,2 the lower house passed a
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