Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions: March, 1919J.L.L. Kuhn, Printer to the commonwealth, 1919 - 294 pages |
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age of 50 amount annual annuity annum Armstrong County average benefits Berks County board of directors Board of Public board of school Bradford County bushels capita cost cent Commission compulsory contributions County Almshouse County Home death dependent disability earning employers employes established exceed expenditures expenses Firemen's foreign born given Not given incapacitated income industrial inmates institutions interest labor Lackawanna County less living Male membership ment month monthly Morris & Company Northumberland County Number Investigated occupations old age pensions one-half outdoor relief paid pany pauper payment Pennsylvania pension fund pension system percentage period Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pittsburgh Poorhouse population preceding retirement Public Charities Railroad Company reached the age receive relief department residing Retirement Fund salary school directors Scranton sickness sion Strawbridge & Clothier superannuation Susquehanna County TABLE NUMBER teachers tion total number twenty wages week widow women workers
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Page 40 - State receiving State aid, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their aid are or have been economically and judiciously expended ; whether the objects of the several institutions are accomplished ; whether the laws in relation to them are fully complied with...
Page 271 - The sum of $20,000; or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this act, out of any...
Page 39 - ... other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings, and all books and papers relating to said institutions; and all persons now or hereafter connected with the same are hereby directed and required to give such information and afford such facilities for inspection as the said Commissioners may require...
Page 232 - As long as you have taxes upon commodities which are consumed practically by every family in the country, there is no such thing as a non-contributory scheme. If you tax tea and coffee, and partly sugar, beer, and tobacco, you hit everybody one way or another.
Page 206 - A fraternal beneficiary association is hereby declared to be a corporation, society or voluntary association, formed or organized and carried on for the sole benefit of its members and their beneficiaries, and not for profit. Each association shall have a lodge system, with ritualistic form of work and representative form of government...
Page 39 - Agent, at all times, to look into and examine the condition of all charitable, reformatory, or correctional institutions within the State, financially and otherwise, to inquire and examine into their methods of instruction, the government and management of their inmates, the official conduct of trustees, directors, and other officers and...
Page 39 - ... the condition of the buildings, grounds, and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings, and all books and papers relating to...
Page 234 - We need measures which shall increase individual responsibility rather than diminish it; measures which shall give us more self-reliance and less reliance on society as a whole. We cannot afford to countenance a system of morals or law which justifies the individual in looking to the community rather than to himself for support in age or infirmity.
Page 41 - ... complete report of all their doings during the year preceding, stating fully in detail all expenses incurred, all officers and agents employed, with a report of the General Agent and Secretary, embracing all the respective proceedings and expenses during the year, and showing the actual condition of all charitable and correctional institutions within the State with such suggestions as the Board may deem necessary and pertinent...
Page 220 - It is notorious that the insatiable factory wears out its workers with great rapidity. As it scraps machinery so it scraps human beings. The young, the vigorous, the adaptable, the supple of limb, the alert of mind, are in demand.