The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-11

Are planned By the Bell Tele-
phone Company for It's
EMPLOYEES.
EmpEOYeeS.

! sS1OuSs SICK De4eut3 3s48 4tES EASNA
ance win be Available on January
4. for the III. 900 employees OF the
Hell system and associated interests
and Their families and dependents,
amounting altogether to more than
quarter OF a million people.
This $4,000 900 fund viii be
made from year to year by annual
appropriations on the part Of the
american Telephone and Telegraph
company and associated companies
and the Western Union Telegraph
COMPANY and the western Electric
Company.
The plan for the DISTRIBUTION OF
this fund has been characterized as
the most liberal. comprehensive and
ideal ever inaugurated. President T.
n. Vail has provided combined ben-
e6ts for approximation, sickness.
accident and death for an Industrial
army more than twice as large as
the standing army of the United
States.
L This provision is made entirely at
the expesse of the various companies
interested, without contributions OF
any kind from the employees them
selves The application of these
varied benefits will be strictly DEM
4 ocratic 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, with full credit for com
] J,S0aj tame 80 Sarv:Po
The Bell system and associated
interests provide employment for
about $4,000 pope; of this number
! 10000 are employees of the Bell
Telephone System. The total yearly
pay for the whole group is about
SIS. 100000, something over $50
I 900. 900 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 sum-
married. as follows:
Pensions.
! Male employees who have reached
the age of sixty years and who have
been twenty years or more in SER
vice. may retire on pensions. They
may be retired at the option OF the
company when they have reached the
LACE of lifty-five years and have been
| twenty-five years or more in ser
5vi1e. The pension age OF female
employees is in each case five years
vonnger than that OF male employees
ANY employee who has been thirty
/ years in service, regardless of age,
may be pensioned on the approval
Lof the president of the company.
4 The amount Of the pension is au-
Dramatically based on the years OF
/ service and the amount Of pay, ana
win be one per cent Of the average
annual pay for ten years, multiplied
nv the number of years OF service.
| therefore a man who had been
tnirtv wears in service would get
Itbfrtv per cent of the average salary
which g had been receiving during
hi last ten years of service. 80
pension will be less than $1,000 q
month
IN tne case OF accidents occurring
:, and. due to the performance oil
work for the company. the employee
viii receive for total disability tull
nav for thirteen weeks and half pay
For the remainder of disability up
to six years III
If the disability is temporary. ne
wIn receive full pay for thirteen
weeks and half pay untit able 70
earn a livelihood. not exceeding SIX
years. .o.s
Employees who are disabled oS
s,,Iness or accident outside o. the
Teg,,1ar course OF duty after ten
veors or more service, will receive
tut pay for thirteen weeks and hai'
nav for thirty-nine weeks; if from
Ave to ten years in service. full pay
sgor tbirteen weeks and half pay for
.,birteen weeks: if from two to i've
Years in service. full pay Tor
weeks asd half pay for nine weeks
Tn the case of employees who have
NOT been two years in service. heads
Of departments will be permitted the
same discretion as heretofore IN
continuing pay during temporary ill-l
ness.
In the case of death resulting
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