SUMS PAID FOR WIFE'S AND MEMBER'S DEATH BENEFITS. ====================================================================== | |Wife's Death Benefit.|Member's Death Benefit. | |--------------------------------------------- | | |Percentage| |Percentage Union. | Year. | |of Whole | |of Whole | |Expended. |Sum | Expended. |Sum | | |Expended | |Expended | | |for Death | |for Death | | |Benefits. | |Benefits. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Painters |1888-1889|$ 650.00| | | |1889-1890| 1,075.00| 26.8 |$ 2,894.00| 73.2 |1890-1892| 2,075.00| 23.1 | 6,000.00| 76.9 |1892-1894| 3,912.00| 27.7 | 10,548.00| 72.3 |1894-1896| 550.00| 19.1 | 2,319.00| 80.9 |1896-1900| 2,025.00| 18.3 | 8,996.25| 81.7 |1902-1903| 6,050.00| 16.3 | 30,307.00| 83.7 |1903-1904| 9,700.00| 20.4 | 37,711.25| 79.6 |1904-1905| 10,025.00| 18.6 | 43,855.50| 81.4 Brotherhood | | | | | of Carpenters |1890-1892| 23,650.00| 20.1 | 93,696.00| 79.9 |1892-1894| 17,750.00| 14.2 | 106,906.95| 85.8 |1894-1896| 13,525.00| 18.7 | 58,527.10| 81.3 |1896-1898| 6,725.00| 10.2 | 59,108.44| 89.8 |1900-1902| 29,545.00| 15.6 | 159,249.98| 84.4 |1902-1904| 46,892.60| 16.1 | 243,218.25| 83.9 |1904-1906| 45,525.00| 12.9 | 306,294.44| 87.1 | | | | | Tailors |1890-1893| 17,075.00| 32.2 | 35,880.00| 67.8 | 1894 | 3,600.00| 29.5 | 8,591.00| 70.5 | 1895 | 2,435.00| 23.6 | 7,853.50| 76.4 | 1896 | 1,674.70| 25.9 | 4,774.95| 74.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From this table it appears that the expenditures on account of the wife's funeral benefit in these unions range from twelve to twenty-five per cent. of the total sum spent for death benefits. In the Cigar Makers' Union and the Typographia it is probably still less. The cost of the wife's funeral benefit to each member cannot be determined for all the organizations. In some, even of the older unions, as the Typographia and the Cigar Makers, separate reports of the cost of the wife's funeral benefit are not made, and the reports only of the Carpenters and the Tailors are capable of analysis.