STEWART'S FIRE. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 52, 4 March 1901, Page 7

STEWART'S FIRE. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir — One of the sufferers by the above fire is reported in your paper to have attributed to "luck" the fncl that 'others had their looses covered by insurance. Now, sir, with your permission I should like to say a few words to show your readers and the carpenters and joiners of Wellington how much luck or com-mon-sense had to do with the matter. The weekly contribution to the Amalgamated Foriefy of Carppntprs and Joiners is Is, and for this Is the member receives the following benpfii = :—lf: — If he meets with an accident, whether at work or away from it, which totally incapacitates him from earning his living at his trade he gets £100. If the accident only partially incapacitates him, i.e., makes it necessary for him to work for low wages,, he gets £50. Lo=<s of tools by fire, water, or theft is injured aj?ainst to the amount of £20; pick benefit, 15s per week ; unemployed benefit. 10s per week. At death his wife Rets £12 ; when he gets too old to york he receives 8s t>er week for life. These are a few of the direct benefits, and then there is the indirect one of belonging to an organisation which has a branch in every town of any consequence in the BnH«h Empire and the United States of America, even Johannesberg, in South Africa, and Vancouver, in British North America, being represented, so that a member landing in any, of these places has the hand of friet)d«hir> lipUl out to hitn, a*id if there • is a job to be had it is pot for him. Several times in my life T have arrived at towns where carpenters have been walking about for weeks, and I have turnedto the morning after arrival. Now, sir, when all thesr> benefits are to be obtained for tbo small sum of Is ocr wesk, ?nd only four men out 6f 20 have availed themselves of the opportunity, I ask — have those four had a stroke of " luck," or are the others laokin? in m COMMON-SENSE? Wellington, 27th Feb.. 1901.

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