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INFORMATION RELATING TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT 



The amount of indemnities paid for fires was : 



In 1905 0.00 fr 



In 1906 11,543.70 



In 1907 25,257.40 



In 1908 39,287.80 



In 1909 20,485.45 



In 1910 36,656.45 



In 1911 61,387.50 



In 1912 43,069.25 



In 1913 68,875.50 



In 1914 150,573-30 



In 1915 94.133-94 



ITALY. 



I. THE PROPOSAI^S OF SENATOR CONTI'S EAWFORCOMPEEEING THE INSURANCE 

 OF EAND AGAINST THE ACCIDENTS OF PEASANTS' EABOUR. — Senato del 

 Regno. Legislatura XXIV 1st session 1913-1916. Documenti : no. 317. 



In the sessions of 12 and 16 December 1916, that is to say ahnost sim- 

 ultaneously, two proposed laws for rendering insurance against the acci- 

 dents of agriculture compulsory were considered and developed in the Se- 

 nate and the Chamber of Deputies (i). 



One of these is due to the initiative of the deputies Borromeo, Venino 

 and Belotti, the other to that of Senator Conti. We have already dealt with 

 the former (2). Although the ideas of the proposer of the second scheme 

 are fortunately already well known we will recall its basic principles : 



(i) In connection with the problem of insurance against the accidents of agricultural la- 

 bour the General Confederation of labour recentlj- passed the following order of the daj- : " The 

 directing council of the General Confederation of Eabour affirms anew its previously expressed 

 wishes as to the necessity of a]complete insurance of labour against sickness, disablement and 

 old age, in order to complete the accident insurance. The council asks the government to 

 promulgate the promised law as to agricultural accidents, and in it to take into account the chief 

 desires expressed on various occasions by the organizations, namety : a) that insurance be com- 

 pulsory and protect without distinction all labourers on the soil and all agricultuial en- 

 terprise attach'ng to H, 'ncludmg small proprietor cultivators ; b) that the right of agricultural 

 labourers to insurance against temporary' disablement be reccgnized ; c) that the insurance 

 be entrusted to mixed and obligatory unions and completed bj' reinsurance with the National 

 Accidents Fund ; d) that when the law as to agricultural accidents is promulgated labour be 

 given juster repre- sentaticn on the council and committee of the National Accidents Fimd ». 



Other desires for compulsory insurance against agricultural accidents were recently formu- 

 lated in the meeting of representatives of the organization of the agricultural labourers of the 

 province of Reggio and Emilia — who asked that such insurance should be entmsted to the 

 National Accidents Fund — and by the agricultural commission of the Eeague of Socialist 

 Communes. 



(2) International Review of Agricultural Economics, June 1916, pp. 61 et seq. 



