SUMS PAID FOR DEATH AND DISABILITY BENEFITS. ===================================================================== | |Sum of Benefits Paid. |Percentage of Benefits | | | Paid. | |---------------------------------------------- Union. | Year. | Death. |Disability.| Death. |Disability --------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotherhood | | | | | of |1894-1896|$ 58,527.10|$10,500.00 | 85 | 15 Carpenters |1896-1898| 59,108.44| 11,100.00 | 85 | 15 |1900-1902| 159,249.98| 7,900.00 | 95.3 | 4.7 |1902-1904| 243,218.25| 16,700.00 | 93.6 | 6.4 |1904-1906| 306,295.44| 28,250.00 | 91.6 | 8.4 | | | | | Painters |1889-1890| 2,894.00| 250.00 | 92.1 | 7.9 |1890-1892| 6,900.00| 750.00 | 90.2 | 9.8 |1892-1894| 10,548.00| 1,475.00 | 87.8 | 12.2 |1898-1899| 7,150.00| 600.00 | 92.2 | 7.8 |1902-1003| 30,307.00| 3,050.00 | 90.9 | 9.1 |1903-1904| 37,711.25| 1,850.00 | 95.4 | 4.6 |1904-1905| 43,855.50| 4,250.00 | 91.2 | 8.8 | | | | | Wood |1900 | 2,850.00| 250.00 | 92 | 8 Workers. |1901 | 4,200.00| 250.00 | 94.4 | 5.6 |1903 | 5,775.00| 500.00 | 90.6 | 9.4 |1904 | 7,574.00| 750.00 | 91.1 | 8.9 | | | | | Iron |1890-1895| 56,172.00| 2,400.00 | 96 | 4 Molders. |1895-1899| 36,899.00| 3,600.00 | 91.2 | 8.8 |1899-1902| 67,414.38| 2,600.00 | 96.3 | 3.7 |1902-1907| 259,554.86| 19,600.00 | 93 | 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- An increasing number of unions pay a wife's death benefit as well as the regular death benefit. This form is of comparatively recent adoption and its success has not yet been thoroughly demonstrated. Nine American unions were reported to be paying this benefit in September, 1903, and eleven in September, 1904.[114] The following is a list of the unions reported as paying the benefit in 1904: Bakers and Confectioners, Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, Cigar Makers, Compressed Air Workers, Lace Curtain Operatives, Freight Handlers, Painters, Paving Cutters, Photo-Engravers, Cotton Mule Spinners, Tailors. [Footnote 114: Proceedings of the Twenty-third Convention, American Federation of Labor, 1903 (Washington, 1903), p. 41; Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Convention, American Federation of Labor, 1904 (Washington, 1904), p. 46.]