Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions
Kennedy, James B.
English
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BENEFICIARY FEATURES OF AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS
BY
JAMES B. KENNEDY, PH.D.
Professor of Political Economy in Wells College
SERIES XXVI NOS. 11-12
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Under the Direction of the
Departments of History, Political Economy, andPolitical Science
November-December, 1908
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. Insurance Against Death and Disability CHAPTER II. Death Benefits CHAPTER III. Sick Benefits CHAPTER IV. Out-of-Work Benefits CHAPTER V. Superannuation Benefits CHAPTER VI. Administration
PREFACE.
This monograph had its origin in the investigations of Americantrade-union activities which have engaged the attention of the EconomicSeminary of the Johns Hopkins University since October, 1902. It wasbegun and completed while the author was a graduate student at theUniversity.
The study is based on a survey of the beneficiary activities of nationaland international trade unions. While no attempt has been made to studyin detail the various forms of mutual insurance maintained by localtrade unions, frequent references are made thereto, inasmuch as thelocal activities have usually an important genetic connection with thenational. The sources from which information has been secured are thetrade-union publications in the Johns Hopkins University collection andimportant documents at the headquarters of different unions. These havebeen supplemented by personal interviews with prominent officials andlabor leaders.
The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance received, at every stageof the work, from Professor Jacob H. Hollander and Associate ProfessorGeorge E. Barnett of the Department of Political Economy of the JohnsHopkins University.
J.B.K.
BENEFICIARY FEATURES OF AMERICAN TRADE UNIONS.
INTRODUCTION.
The American trade unions have developed beneficiary functions far moreslowly than the trade unions of England and Germany. Only since about1880 has there been any considerable increase in such activities. Priorto that time the national unions with few exceptions paid nobenefits.[1] The local unions, here and there, developed beneficiarysystems, but these were not continuous nor, in many cases, important.
The history of trade-union beneficiary activities in the United Statesmay be roughly divided into three periods. In the first, extending fromthe beginning of the century to about 1830, the local associations laidgreat stress on their beneficiary functions. The societies of printers
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