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Show TYPOS ADOPT PLANS FOR MORTUARY BENEFIT ) ST. JOSEPH, ' Mo.'. Aug. .13. A plan for establishing a mortuary benefit fund was adopted by the fifty-fifth annual convention con-vention of the International Typographical Typographi-cal union today. It provides for benefits ranging from $73 to $100, according to the length of inombershlp, and will be .submitted to a referendum vole of I he printers some time next February. A taxon all earnings earn-ings of one-half of 1 'per cent is proposed. pro-posed. The members of the union now earn about $10,000,000 a year, so that the Income would be about SUOO.OOO a year. A resolution to aid the hatters in their .strike was adopted. The union has already al-ready loaned the hatters SiiOOO. |