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Show PACKING EMPLOYEES PENSIONS INCREASED CHICAGO. Pec. 16. Nelson Morris, chairman of the board of directors of Morris & Co.. meat packers, announced tonierht a gift of SITS, 000 to the pension fund of the company. He state-i that the fund, to which employees have contributed con-tributed for years, has reached Sfns.cns. The gift, he said, enables an increase of 25 per cent in all pensions. Tnder the rules, any employee is now entitled upon retirement to a pension of ;n per cent of his salary for each year of" service. ser-vice. Thus an employee who had worked twenty years and received $30 a week would receive a pension of $15 a week. |