The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-02-16

tain Homes Where the INDECENT and
Aged Live In Comfort-Vast Sums
Expended In Relief Work.
There is an almost unknown side OF
union labor activity in America. AS
rule. the unions figure in the public
mind only in times of strikes and
threatened industrial disturbances. The
walking delegate, the picket and the
boycott loom large in the public mind
when unions are under discussion, As
matter of pure fact, strikes are grow.
ling fewer and fewer. and all signs
point to an even more quiet future.
The charitable and fraternal features
of unonism are growing Practically
every union in the United States has
some plan or another by which it cares
for the out of work. the sick, the smit-
ten and the suffering in their own or
CARNATIONS.
The typographical union of America
is one of the strongest and most pro
gressive of the union organizations. 1t
has spent millions in paying death ben
and for the funerals of its members
At Colorado Springs this organization
has established home for printers
that is one of the greatest institutions
In America. 1t passed the experiment
tai stage long since. Here the aged,
the afflicted. the tubercular, the man
who has worn himself out at the ma
chine and the case, can live out his last
months or years.
The Amalgamated Woodworkers' I'M
ion. recently united with the Brother
hood of Carpenters, has paid millions
in benefits. Accident benefits are paid
Iby this society. They run from $500
to 500 for total disability, Any Mem
her reaching the age of sixty and who
has for thirtyfve years been mem
Der of the order is entitled to an old
age pension of $3.50 per week. This
must be paid him whether he is able
to work or not.
The carpenters brot lerhood is one of
1.-THE few societies that pay travelling
benefits and tool insurance. When a
Icarpenter is out of work and out of
money and there Is Il job waiting for
him few hours away he is sent there
lat the expense of the order. In case II
lrarpenter has lost his tools by fire,
theft, by water or in any of the acct
ldentS that sometimes occur in the
course of building construction these
are replaced by the organization.
Ina IL
union, the various railroad organiza-
tons and hundred other unions have
made ready long since TO meet the calls
THAT are bound to come from their
stricken or unfortunate members. Few
0f them have planned better than the
Printing Pressmen and Assistants I'm
lion of America.
At Hale's Springs. Tenn. in the heart
Iof the sanitarium district of the south
they have acquired 500 acres of land
The waters of the famous Red Sulphur
Isprings have been used by the settlers
since the first white men came over the
IAlleghenies. Here they have establish
ed a home for the superannuated. a
sanitarium. hotel and numerous out
buildings. On the same tract is their
Technical trade school for the teaching
of presswork.
The approximate cost to this organ
Ization of the land and the buildings
land the general equipment of the home
the tubercular sanitarium, the trade
school and of stocking the farm will
amount to more than $125,0O0.
The typographical union has gone
farther in caring for its members than
lang other. The international organi
,ntion is back of the big home out at
colorado Springs.
What is now known as the main
building was the first structure erect
ed. and it was built. furnished and put
into actual operation well within the
moneys at hand With the exception
of gift of $4,000, the more than ST.
100000 that has been necessary to
build and operate the Union Printers
home has come from the pockets of
the members of the International Typo
graphical union.
The institution now includes hos.
pita and hospital tent colony these
combined making up the tuberculosis
sanitarium; barns and outbuildings
adequate TO the needs of such an in
stitution. laundry building. power and
heating building, greenhouses library
annex and superintendent cottage.
II costs about $4,000 year to main
tain the Union Printers home. and
| this money is contributed through a
per capita assessment of 10 cents per
month on the $1,000 members of the
organization.
For some years the union paid
burial benefit Of $75. but new law
which became effective on the LIST of
January of this year prov.de for an
Increased mortuary benefit. graded
from $50 to $500. the last requiring n
continuous membership on the part of
the deceased of five wears
The Typographical union has also IA
list of 800 pensioners. to each of whom
81 a week Is paid.
Must Retry Hatters' Case.
| The United States sunrpmp court has