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Show UNIONS TURN DOWN PENSION SCHEME NEW YORK, April 10. A proposition proposi-tion by the Inlerborough Rapid Transit company, lessee of the Manhattan Elevated Ele-vated lines, to found a pension system for its employees, has been rejected by the men. The following unions voted separately against tho plan: Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and the Amalgamated Street Railway Employees' Employ-ees' association branch, composed cf the conductors, guards, yard and track men and agents. " All these now maintain relief and I death benefit funds and the employees ! criticise the pension scheme on the '-i ground that they would bo called upon i to pay all the money into the fund from which the benefits were to be paid, a This would reach $120,000 yearly, and in case of a strike all might be dls- K charged and the entire fund lost There 3 aro nearly 4000 employees on the elc- . vated lines. |