The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-10-12
MANY ACTIVITIES OFFERED
Report of Association Which includes
Employees of Wisconsin Gas and Elec-
trio Company Shows Benefits Given
to Hundreds of Men and Women.

Bert Hall of Milwaukee, the secre-
tary of the Mutual Benefit Associations
of the employees of the Milwaukee
Railway and Light Company and its
allied organizations including the Wis
consin Gas and Electric Company of
this city was awarded the medal by
the American Electric Railway Associ-
alton for the best paper before one of
the association s electric company Sec
tions, at the meeting closing today at
Atlantic City. It was the fourth time
that the medal had been won by a
Milwaukee man. The paper of Mr..
Hall related to the work that is being
done among the employees of the great
company for the advancement of mu-
tual interest. More than a hundred
men and women in Kenosha are mem
bers of this organization as it includes
practically all Of the employees of the
Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company.
The paper of Mr.. Hall brings out per-
tinent facts in regard to the workings
of the association and shows thai it
has been of great value to the employ
ees and of course of great value to the
company. Here are some Of Il he things
which the workings of the Mutual
Benefit Association has done:
1.-The Employees Mutual Benefit
Association, established in 1912, has
reduced time lost through sickness over
35 per cent.
2-The woman s auxiliary of the as
ISOLATION is the only one in the country.
1t has carried timely help and comfort
into many homes where sickness was
present, and has done much to make
the offices of the association one of the
most useful social service centers in
America.
3-The association conducts schools
or instruction, attended last year by
1889 persons, in which employees of
all departments equip themselves for
advancement.
1.-The educational and social auxili-
airy conducts series of public lectures
on timely talks of educational value.
5-Winter recreations at the Public
Service building in Milwaukee, con-
Quoted by the association, include
dances, musical and dramatic enter
tainments, pool, indoor baseball and
bowling.
6-The Employees Mutual Savings
Building and Loan Association is one
of the most successful in the state. It
is helping scores of employees of the
company to acquire homes and hun
dreds of others to save money.
Through the association the com
pany makes needed loans to members
without interest, thus saving them from
the clutches of loan sharks.
8-The company's pension system is
much more liberal with respect to the
age limit, period of service and contri-
buttons by employees, than that of any
other American street railway or cleo
trio lighting company, and far ahead
of the pension systems existing in var
lous Milwaukee city departments.
Mr.. Hall summed up the philosophy
OF welfare work in these words:
The very best that industrial life
holds for any individual under ideal
conditions is steady employment by
which he may earn living for himself
and his family, at work that is con.
genial to himself and useful to the rest
of the world, as opportunity to rise to
higher and HIGHER DIacns re racropr;
bility commensurate with his ability
and industry, that his income shall be
sufficient to permit of his laying up a
surplus large enough to care for him
in sickness and in old age and that his
work shall be Wholesomely interspersed
with periods of rest and recreation