Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-08-11

rid of. He receives relief from the hand o
fellow-workman who perhaps has stoot
| in the same position, and is haDl'
| to do so again, who recognizes
his title to the money he takes, and doe
not feel that he is lowered by the condition
| in which he is placed.
The Society gives security against want
of work and the pauperism which is thu
| produced-against the restitution which
sickness may bring upon the most robust
and misunderstanding the lifelong de
pendence entailed by such calamities az dis
| abling accidents, blindness, paralysis, OF
epilepsy, which incapacitate their victims
for work, and against the helplessness Of
old age when failing powers render the con.
tinuous labor necessary to earn livelihood
impossible. This security is given for a
contribution of 30 cents per week, and the
benefits afforded by the Rules are as fol
lows:
DONATION BENEFIT.-Should any free
member be thrown out of employment I'M
der circumstances satisfactory to the branch
to which he belongs, and not disentitled to
benefit in accordance with Rule 10, or
nOn-free member be withdrawn from his
situation by branch district committee, or
Executive Council, and continue out for
three consecutive days, be shall be entitled
to this benefit.
SICK BENEFIT.-Any free member, when
visited by sickness (not occasioned by
drunkenness or disorderly conduct, or any
disease improperly contracted), upon giving
due notice to the secretary of his branch, las
prescribed by rule, shall be entitled to full
sick benefit for twenty-six weeks, and half
sick benefit afterward as long as he contin-
ues sick.
& SUPERANNUATIoN BENEFIT.-Any MEM
Der fifty years of age, who has been eight
cen years successfully in the Society, and
who, through old age or inirmity, is unable
to obtain the ordinary rate Of wages, shall
be entitled TO a approximation allowance
If he apply for it.
ACCIDENT BENEFIT.-Any free member
not more than $3.50 in arrears, who may,
by losing limb, or having one disabled by
accident or otherwise, or through blindness,
imperfect vision, apoplexy, or paralysis, be
rendered permanently unable to follow any
of the branches of trade mentioned in the
preamble of our rules, provided such was
not the result OF intemperance, or other i'm.
proper conduct, shall receive the sum of
5000 on the production to the Executive
Council Of satisfactory medical and other
testimony of such permanent disablement.
Any free member being permanently disa-
bled from working at the trade, through
any Of the aforementioned causes, and not
having been in the Sociey eighteen years, or
attained the age of fifty at the time of such
must accept this benefit in
preference to any other.
FUNERAL BENEFIT.-On the death of
free member $72 shall be paid to his widow
or nearest of kin; or should the wife of a
member die tirst,he can draw (if he ehoose)
$50 at such death, leaving S42 to be paid
upon his own death.
The time is rapidly approaching when
trade unions such as ours will be emanci-
pated from mistrust, jealousy, and misrep-
resentation, and take their stand as recog-
nized institutions by the community at
large, and one class of society will be pre-
wanted from treading another in the dust.
In spite of the efforts of certain economists,
in teaching workingmen that true patriot
sm consists of meekly submitting to every
reduction of Remuneration and every device
Tor frightening the hours of labor or inten-
styling eXertions, they have failed to carry
as to the truth of their teaching,
and men are disposed, and justly so, to
link for themselves on these matters, and
rom sense of right and duty have acted
IN different conclusions. Employers, if true
% the duties which belong to their position,
will not regard a society like ours with dis
avor, and will understand that it is not in
ended, nor adapted, to damage their inter-
ssts, but rather 10 advance them, by eleva-
ing the character of their workmen, and
oroportionately lessening their own -espon-
abilities. The man who is aware that when
work fails, or sickness takes from him the
1ower Of labor, he will not be altogether
deprived OF the means of living-who Is
certain of some provision for the declining
lays Of age-becomes more contented, as
veil as more independent being. With a
,reater freedom from anxiety he is able to
ievote more care and attention to his work,
md to perform it more skilfully. Besides
his, those who are subject to public opin-
on such as we are, and who feel that the
character of a whole society, as well as their
,wn, depends upon their conduct, will be
more anxious than others to fulfill the du-
les which are confided to them.