The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-13
FraternaI Organizations and Labor
Unions Unite to Save Members

Nine fraternal and benefit organiza-
tions with membership of nearly g.
100000 and three international labor
unions with a membership of over
100000 have joined the ranks of the
fighters against consumption within
the last year, according to statement
issued today by the National Associa-
tion for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis.
A year ago only one fraternal or
ganization the Royal League, and one
labor union, the International Typo
graphical Union, maintained institu-
lions for the treatment of their tuber-
culous members Since January list,
1909 the following fraternal' and ben
eft organizations have taken up the
consideration of tuberculosis and in
most instances have decided to erect
institutions: Brotherhood or American
Yeomen, order of Eagles. Improved
Order of Red Men, Modern Woodmen
of America, Knights of Pythias Roy
al Arcanum. Workmens Circle,
Knights of Columbus, and Foresters
of America The International labor
unions which have joined the fight
against tuberculosis are the Internal
ional Photo Engravers Union of North
America, the International Printing
Freshmen and Assistants Union and
the international Boot and Shoe
Workers Union.
The Modern Woodmen and the
Knights of Pythias have already open
ed sanatoria for their members who
have tuberculosis at Colorado Springs
and East Las Vegas. New Mexico. The
Workmen's Circle is about to erect
a similar institution at Liberty, n. Y.
The Royal League has maintained a
sanatorium at Black Mountain, n. c.,
for three years. The other fraternal
organizations mentioned have either
appointed commissions to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting tubercu-
lcsis Senatorial, or are contemplating
such action.
The first sanatorium to be erected
for the benefit of the laboring men
was built by the International Typo
graphical Union in connection with
its home at Colorado Springs The
international Printing Pressmen and
Assistants Union have recently decided
to erect similar sanatorium and
steps are now being taken to open
such an Institution. The Internation
al PhOtO-Engravers Union while not
conducting a sanatOrium of its own
pays for the treatment of its tuber-
culous members in institutions in var
ious PARTS of the country. The Inter
national Boot and Shoe Workers Tn
ion are recommending to their mem
bers that they ally themselves with
fight against tuberculosis.
All of these fraternal organizations
and labor unions are also carrying
on campaigns of education among
their members. In this way over g.
100000 men and women are receiving
instruction through lectures, through
official papers and by literature eX-
pressly prepared showing the dangers
and methods of prevention of tubercu-
losis.
1t is a campaign of prevention
which will bring to these various fra
ternal and benefit organizations mil
lions of dollars in the saving of lives
and the cutting down of payments for
sickness and death resulting from tu-
berculois. The recent National Fra
ternal Congress estimated that so per
cent of the death losses from tuber-
oulosis could be saved by the various
frlternal organizations Of the coun-
try.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis has rendered all assistance posi-
BILE to these various movements among
the labor men and fraternal organiza-
tions, and stands ready to cooperate
as far as possible with any society of
this character.