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Show Miners7 Pension Early this month the first qualified miner began to receive a pension of $100 a month out of the welfare and retirement fund of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America, which secures the money from a twenty cents levy on each ton of coal mined. The worker, a miner from Wyoming, Wy-oming, had worked for twenty years before retiring because ot illness at the age of sixty-two years. In "presenting the first check, John L. Lewis, head of the miners, declared that the pension and social insurance system of the miners represented represent-ed the "best insurance policy against Communism or any other ism." He pointed out that applicants ap-plicants for pensions must have worked at least twenty years in the mining industry and be at least sixty-two years old. |