Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-12
PLAN FOR EMPLOYEES
DISABILITY BENEFITS
Bell Tel. Co. to Pay Insurance to
Families Of Their Workers.
ACCIDENT DISABILITY BENEFITS
Male Employees in Service Twenty
Five Years May Retire on
Pensions.

A fund of $40, 600, 900 for pensions,
sick benefits and life insurance will
be available on January for the
1854 employees of the Bell System
and associated interests and their fam
lilies and dependents, amounting al
togethersto more than quarter of q
million people.
This $4,000, OOJ fund will be
made from year to year by annual APP
preparations on the part Of the Amer
lean Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and Associated Companies, and
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Western Electric Com
pany. The plan for the distribution
Of this fund has been characterized
as the most liberal, comprehensive
and ideal ever inaugurated. Presi-
dent T. N. Vail has provided COM
bined benefits for superannuation.
sickness, accid snt and death for an
industrial army more than twice as
large as the standing army of the
United States.
This provision is made entirely at
the expense of the various companies
interested, without contributions of
any kind from the employees them
selves. The application of these va
ried benefits will be strictly demo-
cratic and will be for the benefit of
all employees of every rank. The
plan will provide for free change of
employment from one company to
another sswith full credit for combined
terms of service. The Bell System
and associated interests provide en-
ployment for about 175, 900 people.
or this number l30, 600 are employees
of the Bell Telephone system. The
total yearly pay for the whole group
is about S1l5, zoo, 600, something
over $50, 600, 600 being paid out in
wages by the Bell Telephone System
alone.
The terms by which provision is
made for the needs of age, illness,
accidents and death may be summar-
lied as follows:
Male employees who have reached
the age of sixty years and who have
been twenty years or more in SER
vice, may retire on pension. They
may be retired at the option of the
company when they have reached the
age of fifty-five years and have been
TWENTY-FIVE years or more in service.
The pension age Of female employees
is in each case five years younger
than that of male employees. ANY
employee who has been thirty years
in Jerviee, regardless of age, may be
psnsioned on the APPROVAL of the presi-
dent of the company.
The amount of the penison is au-
tomatically based on the years of
service and the amount of pay, and
will be l per cent. of sthe average an
nual pay for ten years, multiplied by
the number of years of service.
Therefore, man who had been thirty
years in service would get 80 per
cent. of the average salary which he
had been receiving during his last ten
years Of--os,i iee. No pension will
he less than $50 per month.
I In the case of accidents occurring
in and due to the performance Of
work for the company, tne employee
will receive for total disability full
pay for thirteen weeks and half pay
for the remainder of disability up to
six years. If the disability is tenn
porary. he will receive full pay for
thirteen weeks and half pay until
able to earn a livelihood, not exceed
ing six years.
Employees who are disabled by
sicknessIor accident outside of the
regular course of duty after ten years
or more in service, will receive full
pay for thirteen weeks and half pay
for thirtY-nine weeks; if from FIVE to