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Wage Chronology

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
SOUTHERN KRAFT DIVISION,

1937-67

Bulletin No. 1534

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JNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Willard Wirtz, Secretary




BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Arthur M. Ross, Commissioner

Wage Chronology

INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY,
SOUTHERN KRAFT DIVISION,
1 9 3 7 -6 7

Bulletin No. 1534
February 1967

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
Arthur M. Ross, Commissioner

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Preface
This bulletin is one of a series prepared by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics to trace changes in wage scales
and related benefits negotiated by individual employers or
combinations of employers with a union or group of unions
in selected collective bargaining situations. Benefits intro­
duced unilaterally by an employer are generally included.
The information is obtained from collective bargaining
agreements and related documents, voluntarily filed with
the Bureau as new settlements are reached. The descrip­
tion of the course of collective bargaining is derived from
news media and confirmed and/or supplemented by the
parties to the agreement.
Wage chronologies deal only
with selected features of collective bargaining or wage
determination and are intended primarily as a tool for
research, analysis, and wage administration.
References
to job security, grievance procedure, methodology of piecerate adjustment, and sim ilar matters are omitted.
This wage chronology summarizes changes in
wage rates and related wage practices negotiated by the
Southern Kraft Division of the International Paper Company
with the United Papermakers and Paperworkers, the Inter­
national Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper M ill
W orkers, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers since 1937. It includes the term s of all agree­
ments entered into by the parties to date.
Lily Mary David, Chief of the Division of Wage
Economics, under the direction of L. R. Linsenmayer,
Assistant Commissioner for Wages and Industrial R e­
lations, is responsible for the overall direction of the
wage chronology program.
This bulletin was prepared by
Albert A. Belm an.




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Contents
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Introduction________________________
The p a r tie s ____________________
Negotiations___________________
Wage level and stru ctu re____
1965 negotiations______________
Term s of the 1965 agreement

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Tables:

A— General wage ch anges________________________
B— Beginners1 hourly wage rates, 1938—6 6 ____________________________________
C— Related wage p ractices__________
Shift prem ium p a y _____________________________________________________________
Prem ium pay for Sunday w o rk _______________________________________________
Overtim e pay_____________________
Holiday p a y _____________________________________________________________________
Paid vacation s____________________________________
C a ll-in pay______________________________________________________________________
Reporting p a y __________________________________________________________________
Paid rest p e rio d s______________________________________________________________
Paid sick le a v e _________________________________________________________________
Jury duty pay___________________________________________________________________
Severence pay________________________________________
Funeral le a v e ___________________________________________________________________
M ealtim e pay___________________________________________________________________
Insurance plans_____________________________________________________
Retirement p lan ________________________________________________________________




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Wage Chronology:
International Paper Company, Southern Kraft Division, 1937—67 1
Introduction
Hourly rated employees of the International Paper Company's Southern
Kraft Division papermills are represented by five international unions. Three—
the United Papermakers and Paperworkers (UPP), the International Brotherhood
of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (PSPMW), and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)— represent the vast majority of work­
ers and negotiate jointly with the company. In five plants, some of the employees
are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers (IAM), and in four plants, some are represented by the United A sso cia ­
tion of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry of
the United States and Canada (PPF).
This wage chronology summarizes the
collective bargaining history of the three unions that negotiate as a group, but
it is concerned primarily with the two paper unions that represent most production
workers.
A willingness to negotiate and settle issues has characterized the more
than a quarter-century of continuous collective bargaining between International
Paper Company's Southern Kraft Division and the International Brotherhood of
Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers (PSPMW) and the United Papermakers and
Paperworkers (UPP).
This relationship represented a change from the attitudes
that prevailed before the first settlem ent.2 The agreement was initiated jointly
by the two unions in 1937, during the period of rapid union expansion which was
encouraged by enactment of favorable Federal legislation .3
A contract that specified wages and working conditions for workers of
the Mobile, A la., plant, signed January 19, 1938, by the company and the PSPMW,
the UPP, and the IBEW was the first entered into by the company in the South.
From then until a 22-day strike disrupted the long period of harmonious relations
in 1965, the parties had not found it necessary to break off negotiations or resort
to work stoppages or lockouts. This favorable climate appears to be based on a
thorough understanding of mutual problems by both union and management.
In
1 For the purpose and scope of the wage chronology series, see Monthly Labor Review, December 1948, p. 581.
2 Both unions had contracts with the company’ s northern mills during and before World War I. In 1921, the
unions struck in the northern mills against a reduction in pay. The strike against the company lasted 5 years. From
the start of the strike until 1937 the company operated an open shop. In 1935, however, John P. Burke, President
of the PSPMW, reported at the union's annual convention that "the company was not discriminating against the union
and . . .
I have also had several meetings with the head officials of the International Paper Company during the
past Z^years."
Robert M. Macdonald, stated in Unionism and the Wage Structure in the United States Pulp and Paper Industry,
Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Los Angeles, 1956, that the ebb in union membership in the
late 1920fs and early 30fs was "brought to an abrupt halt with the enactment o f the National Industrial Recovery A ct
and the National Labor Relations A ct. As a result of this legislation new locals sprang up rapidly not only in the
older papermaking regions of the Northeast and Lake States but also in the newer regions o f the Pacific Coast
and South."
James A. Gross, in "The Making and Shaping o f Unionism in the Pulp and Paper Industry," Labor History,
Spring 1964, p. 198, agreed with Macdonald and in addition suggested that:
"Many formerly hostile employers,
surveying the scene, decided that it would be prudent to settle with the more mature conservatism o f the Pulp and
Sulphite Workers and the Paper Makers before the new and more 'radical' labor unions made inroads among their
employees . . . . "




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the long run, this, along with each party's recognition of the other's goals and
prerogatives, led to wage rates and fringe benefits that are at least as favorable
as those in paper and pulp plants throughout the areas in which Southern Kraft
Division Plants are located.
The Parties
International Paper Company, a m erger of 18 paper making companies
located in northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachu­
setts, was incorporated in New York in 1898, In 1928, the company was acquired
by the International Paper and Power Company, which subsequently divested itself
of its utility properties.
The present Corporation was organized in 1941.
Operations in the South and in Kraft paper were started with the purchase of a
m ill in Louisiana (the Bastrop Mill) in 1925. Subsequently, m ills were built or
bought in Camden, Ark. (1926), Bastrop, La. (Louisiana Mill— 1927), Moss Point,
M iss. (1928), Mobile, Ala. (1929), Panama City, Fla. (1931), Georgetown, S. C.
(1937), Springhill, La. (1938), Natchez, M iss. (1951), and Pine Bluff, Ark. (1958).

As the number of m ills in the Southern Kraft Division increased to 10,
production expanded from unbleached linerboard into practically every grade of
paper and board. Today these products include the fine bond grades, newsprint,
tabulating index cup stock, m ilk carton and other bleached boardgrades, clay
coated boards, polyethylene coated paper and boards, as well as various grades
of bag and wrapping papers. The company also produces market paper pulps and
dissolving pulps.
The antecedents of the United Papermakers and Paperworkers can be
traced to 1884, when a group of Holyoke, M a ss., papermachine tenders organized
a "so cia l club. " This and other groups that followed were located in the north­
eastern States, then the center of the paper industry. A charter covering papermachine tenders and beater engineers, the aristocrats of the trade, was issued
by the American Federation of Labor in 1893 in the name of the United Brotherhood
of Papermakers. Other papermill workers' dissatisfaction with the lack of repre­
sentation in matters that directly affected their livelihood caused the A F L to issue
a new charter in 1897.
This charter expanded the organization's jurisdiction to
all branches of the papermaking industry. A dual movement, founded by skilled
papermachine tenders who were not in accord with the expansion in membership,
amalgamated with the United Brotherhood in 1902 to form the International
Brotherhood of Paper M akers. One year later, a group of Laborers Protective
Unions, affiliated directly with the Federation and representing workers employed
outside the machine rooms, were transferred without their consent to the
International Brotherhood.
This was a paper m erger which did not provide
adequate representation to the unskilled and sem iskilled workers. Thus, these
workers in 1906, organized the PSPMW outside of the Federation. Intense rivalry
hurt both unions, and in 1909, they divided the jurisdiction of the paper industry.
Newsprint, bag, and hanging m ill workers were ceded to the Pulp Workers, as
were all workers not connected with any other international union. To eliminate
possible conflicts, a joint conference board was established to discuss mutual
problems at regular intervals.
The new jurisdictions were confirmed when the
Pulp Workers were admitted to the Federation. In March 1957, the Papermakers
adopted its present name (United Papermakers and Paperworkers) after am al­
gamating with a form er affiliate of the CIO— the United Paperworkers of A m erica.4
The United Paper Workers received its charter from the CIO on Jan. 1, 1944; the union did not represent
workers in the Southern Kraft Division o f the International Paper Company.




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Negotiations
The accord of 1909 established a basis for a joint and harmonious a s ­
sociation between the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers and the PSPMW
that has resulted in relatively uniform policies among the m ills within each of
the major producing regions. In the South, as in other regions, bargaining goals
are influenced strongly by the two internationals through joint wage conferences.
Generally, a union vice president, and sometimes international representatives,
supervise negotiations with key companies.
The terms agreed to become the
pattern for negotiations in other plants in the region.
Differences are agreed
to in the actual settlements, however, which compensate for factors that might
be disadvantageous to a particular company. Expression of local opinion, pro­
vided through the Southern Association of Pulp and Paper Industry Unions, is
informal but effective.
The Association, organized in 1943, meets both several
times a year and prior to negotiations to discuss problems in the South.
At the Southern Kraft Division of the International Paper Company, a
single contract is negotiated and signed by these two unions and the International
Brotherhood of Electrical W orkers, which also represents some of the w o rk e rs.5
It is frequently the first to be negotiated in a region, and the standards established
provide the pattern for a major segment of the southern paper and pulp industry.
The company and the Paper Makers, the Pulpworkers, and the Electrical
Workers had concluded an agreement for the Mobile plant in 1937; the contract
was signed in January 1938.
Additional collective bargaining contracts were
reached in 1938 for m ills located in Panama City, Georgetown, Bastrop (two
m ills), and Camden, the first multiplant contract, covering eight m ills, was
signed in 1939.
In 1938, the Machinists also negotiated their first agreement. It covered
employees of the Panama City Mill of the Southern Kraft Division.
A master
contract now governs the wages and working conditions of workers represented
by this union in the Camden, Georgetown, Natchez, Panama City, and Springhill
m ills.
Three years later, the Plumbers negotiated their initial agreement for
employees at the Springhill m ill. In both situations, although each local had been
separately certified as collective bargaining representative, the agreements
applied to all employees represented by the unions.
From 1941 through 1949, joint agreements in eight m ills covered the
employees represented by the five unions.
In 1950, the Plumbers and the
M a ch in ists began n egotiatin g se p a ra te a g re e m e n ts fo r th eir m em bers.
In 1965,
the remaining three mem bers of this joint group represented approximately
92 percent of the hourly rated employees of the Southern Kraft Division.
Since 1937, 31 general wage changes have been negotiated, and all except
one have been increases; a 5-percent wage decrease was instituted in September
1938 but rescinded in February 1939. General wage increases went into effect in
each of the 29 years of the contractual relationship except two— 1943 and 1949.
Southern Kraft employees' wage rates were increased twice a year in 2 years,
during both World War II and the Korean emergency.
Traditionally, the parties have negotiated 1-year contracts.
Although
there were 2-year agreements in 1956, 1959, 1963, and 1965, the pattern of
multiyear contracts has not become established as in many other industries.
Other groups o f employees and operations, whose collective bargaining history is not included in this
chronology, are also represented by international unions. In 1946, the Office and Professional Employees International
Union (then the Office Employees International Union) was certified as the collective bargaining agent for specified
groups of salaried office and clerical employees in the Mobile m ill. In 1965, the union bargained for these
employees in 7 o f the company's 10 mills.
Separate contracts were negotiated by the PSPMW for each of the five regions in which the company has
woodland operations. The first agreement for these employees was signed in Georgetown, S. C . , in 1947.




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In the contracts that have been negotiated, the company and the unions
appear to have agreed on the importance of maintaining occupational wage dif­
ferentials. Straight-tim e average hourly earnings increased an estim ated $ 2 . 10
an hour from V -J day, August 1945, to the end of 1965.
Minimum rates paid
men laborers rose $ 1 .9 4 an hour from January 1938 through June 1, 1966 (from
40 cents to $ 2 .3 4 an hour).
The absolute increase at the upper end of the wage
structure was much higher because of the many percentage changes. For example,
the rates paid machine tenders at the Mobile, A la. , plant increased a minimum
of $ 2 .3 2 and maximum of $ 3 , 7 55 by June 1, 1966. 6
An unusual characteristic of the negotiations was the frequent provision
of special adjustments for selected classification s.
These special adjustments
were prim arily due to changes in job content during the contract period.
Numerous improvements and additions to work practice provisions and to
benefits were made during the 29-y ear period.
The initial contract was com ­
paratively free of detail and protective clau ses.
It was a two-page typewritten
document with six sections, an addendum of 15 m ill rules and 25 safety rules,
and a three-page wage schedule.
Its economic provisions, other than those
directly related to rates of pay, were lim ited to premium pay for overtim e,
shift differentials, work on recognized holidays, and pay for workers called to
work outside their regular sch ed u le.7
The company also made jointly financed
insurance available to its workers and this was not changed by collective b a r­
gaining until 1950.
By 1965, the document had grown to 56 printed pages, including 16 arti­
cles and innumerable sections. It was supplemented by a 6-page safety manual
and a 52-page schedule of occupational wage rates. Southern K raft1s employees
are now covered by a complete range of work practice benefits that are common
to the organized sector of Am erican industry.
The current provisions represent an evolution that in some cases
extended over much of the contractual period.
For example, 10 changes, the
last in 1961, were required to bring the overtime provision to its present status.
P a id v a c a tio n s were e s ta b lis h e d in 1941 and changed s e v e n t im e s t h e r e a ft e r .
By
contrast, the original contract clause that provided premium pay for Sunday work,
established in 1951, remained unchanged in all subsequent contracts, except for
a provision that time worked on Sundays would not be offset when computing
weekly overtim e.
International Paper Company first made insurance available to its em ­
ployees in 1923— 2 years before it started operations in the South. At the time
of the first contract, employees could subscribe to a plan that provided life,
accidental death and dism em berm ent, and total and permanent disability insurance,
as well as weekly sickness and accident benefits and visiting nurse se rv ic e s. In
1952, the parent organization instituted a companywide h osp ital-m ed ical-su rgica l
plan but, workers in the Southern Kraft Division elected a 1-cen t-an -h ou r wage
increase instead.
By 1955, the workers' attitude had changed and an indemnity
type plan was installed.
More extensive benefits were provided in 1961, when a
service type plan was substituted for the indemnity arrangement.
^ The hourly rate o f pay for machine tenders at the Mobile plant was $1.41 as of January 1938. A t present,
the hourly rate is determined by the machine to which the tender is assigned and it is based on the actual operation
and production o f that particular machine.
The rates are reviewed quarterly and adjusted upward or downward
according to a prescribed formula. The lowest rate paid for a machine tender at the M obile m ill during the contract
year beginning June 1, 1965, was $3,595 for the No. 4 machine, and the highest rate paid was $4.99 for the
No. 5 machine. For the first quarter of the contract year, starting June 1, 1966, the lowest hourly rate for machine
tenders was $3. 73 and the highest hourly rate was $5.165.
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The provisions that are reported as in effect in 1937 do not necessarily indicate changes in prior conditions
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At the end of World War II, the parties agreed to retirement benefits
for eligible employees.
Like the insurance plan, these benefits were jointly
financed.
Over the years, the pensions available to retired employees have
risen, new benefits have been added, and eligibility requirements have been
relaxed.

Wage Level and Structure
Basic hourly rates of pay in Kraft pulp and papermills are among the
highest in the South, and for some occupations they exceed those paid by the
industry in the Northeast. The industry started in the South in 1910 and developed
rapidly during the 1920* s.
Papermaking requires a relatively large proportion
of skilled labor competent to perform intricate operations with expensive m a­
chinery.
Because there were few experienced workers in the region, southern
employers imported and paid the rates necessary to attract skilled workers from
the North. As a result the n . . . wage rates for skilled workers in 1939 were
considerably higher in some of the southern States than in Maine and New
Hampshire. Common labor, on the other hand, was paid a uniformly lower rate
in the South. 118 By 1946, however, the director of the southern region of the
Paper Makers was able to report that the regular rate in Southern Kraft Division
plants was n . . . the same as the Base (SIC rate) in the Book and Bond Division
of the International Paper Company. 1,9 Book and Bond Division plants of the
company were all located in northern States.
The minimum rate paid men and women laborers is known as the base
rate.
Rates above the minimum are determined by the degree of skill and
responsibility required.
The wage structure of Southern Kraft D ivision s 10 plants includes about
500 separate job titles. Not all of the occupations are found in each plant, and
there is some variation among these plants in rates paid occupations with the
same title because of differences in products and methods. In 1938, Negro laborers
received 4 cents an hour below the base rate for whites. On application of the
company and the union, the National War Labor Board in 1943, removed the
differential, which had increased to 4 V2 cents an hour. Women* s minimum rates
were 8 cents an hour below those paid men when the board was considering the
parties* request.
This differential was maintained until 1948 when it was
reduced 2 cents an hour. No further reductions were negotiated until 1962 when
another 2-cent reduction was made.
The following year the differential was
reduced to 2 cents and in 1964 was eliminated.
The company classifies approximately 38 percent of all hourly rated
employees in categories it considers skilled, 44 percent in sem iskilled, and
15 percent in unskilled. About 3 percent of the workers are engaged in service
activities.
Of all hourly paid employees, about 21 percent are assigned to
maintaining the plants and their equipment and 6. 5 percent are in the company's
laboratories. Women com prise only 4 percent of the work force because of the
nature of the papermaking operations.
8 Rupert W. Maclaurin, ” Wages and Profits in the Paper Industry, 1929—39,” The Quarterly Journal of
Economics, February 1944, Vol. LVTII, No. 2, p. 217.
9 Letter dated May 23, 1946, from Regional Director, Southern Regional Offices, International Brotherhood
o f Papermakers to the Research and Educational Director, International Brotherhood o f Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill
Workers.




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The elaborate wage structure with its multiplicity of wage rates is
designed to take into account all elements of skill and responsibility. On entering
a plant most workers start at the bottom of the occupational ladder. Positions
with greater responsibility and higher pay are reached through seniority and
ability. Occasionally a skilled worker may be employed directly in a high rated
maintenance craft.
The predominant method of pay is a flat rate.
About 7 percent of the
workers— those who operate paper machines— are paid in accordance with an
incentive formula.
Provisions of the contracts dealing with the day-to-day
administration of the paper machine formula are not included in the summary
tables of this report.
The changes in related practices reported in this chro­
nology, however, apply to these employees as well as to those paid time rates.
1965 Negotiations
The course of negotiations scheduled to open in May 1965 appeared to
have been forecast by the tenor of statements presented by union officials at the
22d Annual Convention of the Southern Association of Pulp and Paper Industry
Unions.
Delegates to the April convention received an inclusive bargaining pro­
posal "D esign for Progress 16 5 ,■Mthat explained the goals of the PSPMW. Simi­
lar goals were adopted by the UPP.
These goals followed the established pattern of covering a wide proportion
of the total bargaining spectrum.
Proposals directed toward raising earnings
included increases in wage rates and premium pay for overtime work, as well
as higher shift differentials. Recommendations for additional paid holidays, longer
regular vacations with pay, and the establishment of extended vacations would
have maintained earnings levels while providing more leisure.
Although the
AFLr-CIO position on a shorter workweek was supported as a means of providing
additional jobs, the paper unions’ proposals made no reference to the maintenance
of earnings.
To provide a means of protection during periods of unemployment
resulting from m ergers and technological changes, the establishment of supple­
mental unemployment benefits and severance pay plans were advocated. Finally,
there were detailed proposals for improving existing pension, health, and welfare
plans. Since most of the union contracts made provision for paid jury duty and
funeral leave, only , brief reference was made to these in the stated goals.
An
almost equal number of goals dealt with nonmonetary issues.
The bargaining objectives developed by the Association and the demands
of the union locals were largely a reflection of the International Unions’ program.
Negotiations opened on May 6 and continued beyond May 31, the scheduled ex­
piration date of the contract, without either party serving the required 10-day
notice of intent to terminate. By June 3, the union negotiators had decided that
the areas of disagreement were sufficiently serious to warrant a 10-day strike
notice. On June 11, 1965, the company's employees left their jobs for the first
time since the initial agreement was signed in January 1 9 3 8 .10 Reflecting the
understanding that had developed during the long relationship, negotiations con­
tinued and shutdown operations proceeded in an orderly fashion.
At this point, the company had offered a 32. 5-cents-an-hour package in
a 2-year agreement. Under the provisions of the offer, wage rates would have
been increased 10 cents an hour the first year and 3. 5 percent (averaging approxi­
mately 9. 6 cents an hour) the second year.
The first shift differential would
have been increased 1 cent an hour in the initial year of the agreement and the
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Short wildcat strikes had occurred at two plants before the division-wide walkout.




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second shift premium by a like amount a year later. An additional holiday was
offered, and vacation benefits would have been increased to 5 weeks after 25 years'
service.
Extensive revisions of the pension plan were proposed.
Eligibility
requirements for normal retirement would have been reduced to age 63 with
30 years' service, and annuities would have been increased by 15 percent for
past service credits and by 16.66 percent for all service starting in 1965.
Fifteen years' service would have been required for disability benefits. The plan
was to be expanded by the addition of benefits for survivors of active employees
who died at or after age 63 with 30 years of service or m ore.
The proposal
would also have required the company, over a 4-year period, to assume the
employee's pension contribution on the first $ 3 ,0 0 0 earned during a year.
Although the company and union were in agreement on many issues, there
were wide areas of difference on a number of major item s— the most important
was reported to be eligibility for early retirement with unreduced pension benefits.
Under the unions' proposals, any employee would be eligible for a
"full normal
annuity, " based on
years of service, at age 62.
There was also a wide
gap between the two general wage increase proposals; the union wanted a
12-cent-an-hour raise the first year, and 4. 5 percent (about 12.5 cents) the
second year.
Also,
the union requested a 4 - week paid vacation after 15 years
of service, 5 weeks
after 20 years, and 6 weeks after 30 years.
The unions struck at 2 p. m. on June 11, 1965. Negotiations were r e ­
cessed on June 14, and were not resumed for 10 days. A week later, the company
had sufficiently narrowed the difference in the parties' positions to warrant, in
the opinion of the union negotiators, a vote by the members of the locals.
The
agreement was ratified by the locals on July 2 and the strike ended on the same
day. All 10 Southern Kraft Division plants observed the July 4, no-work holiday
and resumed operations after that date.
Term s of the 1965 Agreement
In the first year of the 2-year contract wage rates were to be increased
10.,5 cents an hour, paid vacations were increased to 4 weeks for employees with
15 years of service or m ore, and extensive improvements were made in the
pension plan. Normal benefits for employees retiring after the effective date of
the contract were to be raised by increasing the dollar amount due for past
service and the percentage used to compute benefits earned after January 1, 1965.
The actuarial reduction was eliminated for employees who retired at age 62 with at
least 20 years' service, and years of service required for a disability benefit
were reduced.
A new benefit, for surviving spouses of employees who died
before retirement, was added. The treatment accorded employees who had partici­
pated in the plan and rejoined was liberalized and employees' contributions on
the first $ 3 , 0 0 0 of annual earnings was reduced.
The contract provided for a 3 .5 percent general wage increase in 1966,
as well as further improvements in vacation benefits. On or after June 1, 1966,
employees with 25 but less than 30 years' service were to receive 5 weeks paid
vacation; those who completed 30 years or more, 6 weeks. Another decrease in
employee pension plan contributions went into effect on January 1, 1967. Although
the contract could be renegotiated or terminated after May 31, 1967, employees'
contributions on the first $ 3 , 0 0 0 of earnings are again to be reduced in January
1968, and completely eliminated the following year.
The following tables summarize the wage changes and related benefits
negotiated by the Southern Kraft Division of International Paper Company and the
PSPMW, the UPP, and the IBEW from 1937 to 1967..




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A ---- General Wage Changes1

June 1, 19 37
(P S P M W -U P P IBEW agree­
ment dated
Jan. 19,
1938). 2
Sept. 1, 19 38
(agreement
dated June 1,
1938)
.
Feb. 19, 1939
(agreement
dated
M arch 31,
1939)
.
June 1, 1940
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1941
(agreement of
same date).
Nov. 16, 1941
(agreement
dated Dec. 9,
1941).
June 1, 1942
(agreement of
same date).
Apr. 16, 1 94 3 3..
Aug. 15, 1943
(approved by
National War
Labor Board,
Aug. 27, 1943).
July 18, 1944
(approved by
NW LB,
Feb. 15, 1945).
June 3, 1945 3___
D ec. 16, 1945 3. .

June 1, 1946 3___

Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

10-percent increase.

5-percent decrease.

P re-Sept.

5 percent restored..

3 cents an hour increase.

7 cents an hour increase.

7 - percent
an hour.

increase

averaging

4 .8

cents

4 cents an hour increase.

Hours increased to 48 per week.
Increase of 1 .4 percent ( 0 .9 cents an hour when
averaged over all employees in the bargaining
unit) resulting from equalization of w hite-Negro
common labor rates.
In addition, adjustments
made in wage rates of selected classifications.
In addition retroactive wage adjustments designed
1 .5 cents an hour in crease.
to eliminate intraplant inequities.
Adjustments
ranged from 2 cents to 8 cents an hour for more
than 600 w orkers.
Adjustments in wage rates of selected c la s s ifi­
cations.
2. 5 cents an hour increase in lieu of shift 2. 5 cents in lieu of shift differential which was
differential plus 1 3 -percent increase, av­
removed added to rates and then 13 percent
eraging 1 0.6 cents an hour.
applied.
Reduction in workweek from 48 to 42
hours. In addition, adjustments in wage rates for
approximately 1, 350 em ployees.
6 to 10 cents an hour increase averaging Increases varied as follows:
8. 1 cents.
Hourly
Hourly rate
increase
75
76
82
87
91

June 1, 1947 3__
June 1, 1948
(agreement of
same date).

1, 1938, wage levels restored.

cents and
and under
and under
and under
cents and

10
9
8
7
6

under___
82 cents.
87 cents.
91 cents.
o v e r ____

In addition, 1 to 14 cents an hour adjustments in
wage rates for selected classification approved by
Wage Stabilization Board, Aug. 7, 1946, for m ore
than 800 em ployees.
15 cents an hour in cre a se ___________________ In addition, adjustments in wage rates for more
than 2, 100 em ployees.
5 to 13 cents an hour in crease, averaging Increases varied as follows:
9 .4 cents.
Hourly
increase
Hourly rate
$1. 0 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------$ 1 .0 1 ___________________________________________
$ 1. 02 — -----$ 1 .0 3 ___________________________________________
$ 1. 0 4 ___________________________________________
$1. 0 5 ___________________________________________
$ 1. 0 6 ___________________________________________
$1. 07—$1. 3 2 _________
$1. 33 and over_______________
Rates

See footnotes at end of table.




cents
cents
cents
cents
cents

for women

below

$1

increased

5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

cents
cents
cents
cents
cents
cents
cents
cents
cents

7 percent.

9
A ---- General Wage Changes1— Continued
Effective date

June 1, 1949
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1950
(agreement of
same date).

Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

Provision

Adjustments ranging from 1 to 12 cents an hour in
wage rates for approximately 1,250 em ployees.
7 to 10 cents an hour increase,
8. 02 cents.

averaging Increases varied as follows:
Hourly rate
$1. 24
$1. 25
$ 1 .4 2
$1. 59

and
a id
and
and

under_______________________________
under $ 1 .4 2 ________________________
under $1. 59________________________
over_________________________________

Hourly
increase
7
8
9
10

cents
cents
cents
cents

In addition, 2 to 5 cents an hour adjustments
wage rates for nearly 1,600 em ployees.
Oct. 15, 1950
(agreement
dated June 1,
1950).
June 1, 1951
(approved by
Wage Stabili­
zation Board,
Jan. 25,
1952).
June 1, 1952
(approved by
WSB, Nov. 26,
1952).
Dec. 1, 1952
(approved by
WSB, Novembe
1952).
June 1, 1953
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1954
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1955
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1957
(agreement
dated June 1,
1956).
June 1, 1958
(agreement of
same date).

4-percent increase, minimum 5 cents, av­
eraging 5 .6 5 cents an hour.

Consisted of retroactive increases of (1) 3 cents
c o st-o f-liv in g adjustment allowable under General
Wage Regulation No. 8 4 and (2) 5 cents under
General Wage Regulation No. 6 . 5 In addition,
2 to 16 cents an hour adjustments in wage rates
for nearly 2, 100 em ployees.
Designated by parties as 2-cent an hour general
wage change, 2-cent c o st-o f-liv in g increase, and
1-cent in lieu of company proposed hospitalization
plan. In addition, 1 to 10 cents an hour adjustments
in wage rates for approximately 1,575 em ployees.

8 cents an hour increase.

5 cents an hour increase.

2 cents an hour increase.

3-percent increase, minimum 5 cents, av­
eraging 5 .3 5 cents an hour.

In addition, 2 to 8 cents an hour adjustments in wage
rates for approximately 850 em ployees.

7 cents an hour increase_____________________

In addition, 2 to 17 cents an hour adjustments
in wage rates for approximately 300 em ployees.

5-percent
an hour.

In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 5 cents
an hour for approximately 650 em ployees.

increase,

averaging

8 .9

cents

13 cents an hour in c r e a se ___________________

5-percent increase, minimum 9 cents, av­
eraging 10. 1 cents an hour.

4

to 8 cents an hour increase,
5 .0 5 cents an hour.

In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 8 cents
an hour for approximately 4, 900 em ployees.
D e­
ferred increase effective June 1, 1957.
Deferred increase.

averaging Increases varied as follows:
H ourly

Hourly rate
$1.
$1.
$2.
$2.
$3.

June 1, 1959
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, I960
(agreement
dated June 1,
1959).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1962
(agreement of
same date).

in

85
86
25
72
14

and
and
and
and
and

und er_______________________________
less than
$2. 2 5 __________
less than
$2. 7 2 __________
less than
$3. 14__________
over_________________________________

increase
4
5
6
7
8

cents
cents
cents
cents
cents

In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 10
cents an hour for approximately 5 ,7 0 0 em ployees.
In av­
addition, adjustments in wage rates of 1 to 10
3percent increase, minimum 7 cents,
cents an hour for approximately 1,50 0 em ployees.
eraging 7 .3 cents an hour.
Deferred increase, effective June 1, I960.
Deferred
increase.
4percent increase, minimum 8 cents,
av­
eraging 9 .4 cents an hour.

In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 15
cents an hour for selected classifications.

3. 5 cents an hour increase.

3-percent
an hour.

increase,

See footnotes at end of table.




averaging

7 .4

cents

In addition, women’ s minimum job rate increased
an additional 2 cents an hour.
Adjustments in
wage rates of 2 to 17 cents an hour for selected
classifications.

10
A ---- General Wage Changes1— Continued
Effective date

Provision

June 1, 1963
(agreement of
same date).

7 cents an hour increase_____________________

June 1, 1964
(agreement
dated June 1,
1963).
June 1, 1965
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1966
(agreement
dated June 1,
1965).

3-percent increase, minimum 7 cents, av­
eraging 7 .9 cents an hour.

1 0.5 cents an hour in cre a se _________________

3 .5-p e rcen t
an hour.

increase,

averaging 9 .6 cents

Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

In addition, women's minimum job rates increased
2 cents an hour.
Adjustments in wage rates of
2 to 11.5 cents an hour for approximately 1, 175
employees.
Deferred increase, effective June 1, 1964.
Deferred increase:
W om en's minimum rates in­
creased 2 cents an hour, thereby eliminating the
differential for somewhat over 300 em ployees.
In addition, adjustments in wage rates of 2 to 20
cents an hour for approximately 1,90 0 em ployees.
Deferred increase, effective June 1, 1966.
Deferred increase.

1 General wage changes are general increases or decreases as well as adjustments for individual job
classifications that change basic hourly rates of pay and affect a substantial number of w orkers.
Not included are
adjustments in individual rates (promotions, m erit increases, e tc.) and minor interim adjustments in wage structure
(such as changes in the wage rates during the contractual year for individual occupations during the contractual
year) that do not have an immediate and noticeable effect on the average wage level.
The changes listed in this table were m ajor adjustments in the wage level made during the period covered.
The sum of general changes listed w ill not necessarily coincide with the changes in straight-tim e average hourly
earnings over the period of this chronology because of fluctuations in earnings, changes in products, production
methods, and employment practices, the om ission of nongeneral changes in rates, changes in the composition of
the labor force, and other factors.
2 Since the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper M ill W ork ers, the United Papermakers
and Paperworkers (form erly the International Brotherhood of Paperm akers), and the International Brotherhood of
E lectrical W orkers jointly negotiated agreements during the entire period covered by this chronology, the usual
union designations are omitted from this and subsequent tables after the first entry.
3 Date of agreement not available.
4 In collective bargaining situations where there were no co st-o f-liv in g escalator clause in effect, General
Wage Regulation No. 8, Section 4, permitted parties who found that the real value of wages and salaries had
declined since Jan. 25, 1951, to put into effect, no more frequently than every 6 months, increases that would
restore the real value of those rates from Jan. 25, 1951, to date of the increase.
5 General Wage Regulation No. 6 provided that, if general wage increases since Jan. 15, 1950, had been
less than 10 percent, future increases "m ay be permitted in amounts up to but not in excess of the difference
between such past in creases, if any, and the perm issible 10 p e r ce n t."




11

B---- Beginners’ Hourly Wage Rates, 1938—66
Men 1
Effective date

June
Sept.
Feb.
June
June
Nov.
June
Aug.
June
Dec.
June
June
June
June
Oct.
June
June
Dec.
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June
June

1, 19 37________________________________________
1, 19 38_______________________________________
19, 1939______________________________________
1, 1940________________________________________
1, 1941________________________________________
16, 1941_____________________________________ _
1, 1942________________________________________
15, 1943______________________________________
18, 1944______________________________________
16, 1945______________________________________
1, 1946________________________________________
1. 1947 _____ ______________________ ______
1, 1948________________________________________
1, 1950________________________________________
15, 1 950______________________________________
1, 1951________________________________________
1. 19 52 _ ____________ ______________________
1. 1952 ______________________________________
1, 1953________________________________________
1, 1954________________________________________
1, 1955________________________________________
1, 1956________________________________________
1, 1957________________________________________
1, 1958________________________________________
1, 1959________________________________________
1, I960________________________________________
1, 1961_______________________________________
1, 1962________________________________________
1, 1963________________________________________
1, 1964________________________________________
1, 1965________________________________________
1, 1966________________________________________

1
rate in
2
the 5th
3

Hiring
rate 2

(3)
0
(’ )

0

(3)
(3)
$0. 54 and . 58
. 58
(3>
. 70
. 80
. 95
1. 00
1. 07
1. 12
1. 20
1. 25
1. 27
1. 32
1. 39
1. 46
1. 59
1. 68
1. 72
1. 79
1. 87
1. 905
1. 960
2. 030
2. 100
2. 205
2. 280

Women
Minimum
rate 2

$0. 40
. 38
. 40
. 43
. 50
. 535
. 575
. 62
(3)
. 75
. 85
1. 00
1. 05
1. 12
1. 17
1. 25
1. 30
1. 32
1. 37
1. 44
1. 51
1. 64
1. 73
1. 77
1. 84
1. 92
1. 955
2. 015
2. 085
2. 155
2. 260
2. 340

and
and
and
and
and
and
and

. 44
. 42
. 44
. 47
. 54
. 58
. 62

Hiring
rate

(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
$0. 44
. 44
(3)
. 54
. 64
. 79
. 86
.9 3
. 98
1. 06
1. 12
1. 14
1. 18
1. 25
1. 31
1. 44
1. 53
1. 57
1. 64
1. 72
1. 755
1. 810
1. 880
1. 950
2. 055
2. 280

Minimum
rate

1

(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(3)
$0. 54
. 54
(3)
. 67
. 77
.9 2
.9 9
1. 06
1. 11
1. 19
1. 24
1. 26
1. 31
1. 38
1. 45
1. 58
1. 67
1. 71
1. 78
1. 86
1. 895
1. 975
2. 065
2. 155
2. 260
2. 340

From the date of the first contract to May 31, 1951, employees progressed from the hiring to the minimum
90 days in one step; from June 1, 1951, the period was 30 days.
Negroes were paid lower rates than whites until Sept. 14, 1943. On petition of the company and the unions,
Regional War Labor Board approved a single hiring and minimum rate for men, effective Sept. 15, 1943.
Not available.




12
C---- Related Wage Practices
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

Shift premium pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 3, 1 9 4 4 1___
Dec. 16, 1945 1 __
Dec. 1, 1952
(agreement
dated June 1,
1953).
June 1, 1953
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1963
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1964
(agreement of
June 1, 1963).
June 1, 1965
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: 4 cents an hour premium for
work on 2d shift, 6 cents for 3d shift.
Discontinued: A ll shift p rem iu m s__ ______
Reestablished shift prem ium s: 2 cents an
hour premium for work on 2d or 3d shifts.

Basic wage rates of all workers increased 2.5 cents
an hour in lieu of shift differential. (See table A .)
Shift differential included in computing overtim e.

Increased to; 3 cents for 2d shift, 5 cents
for 3d shift.
Increased to: 5 cents for 2d shift, 8 cents
for 3d shift.
Increased to:

9 cents for 3d shift.

Increased to:

6 cents for 2d shift.

Added: Shift differential paid dayworkers for all
work after scheduled shift if 2 or more nonscheduled hours were worked.

Prem ium pay for Sunday work
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: Time and one-half for work on
Sunday as such.

Approved by Wage Stabilization Board.
Hours worked on Sunday to be included in computing
weekly overtim e.

Overtime pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1939
(agreement of
same date).

June 1, 1941
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1948
(agreement of
same date).

Time and one-half for work in excess of
8 hours a day.

Added: Overtime rate paid for all hours
worked in excess of 16 until employee had
8 hours' rest.

Added: Overtime rate paid for all hours
when employee worked 24 consecutive
hours or m ore.
Added: Time and one-half for work in e x­
cess of 40 hours a week.

See footnote on p. 22.




Not applicable to shift employee who worked (1) dou­
ble shifts or extra hours because worker assigned
to next shift did not report, or (2) extra hours
when shifts were changed.
Changed: Overtime not payable to (a) employee on
continuous operations (tour worker) who worked
(1) double shift, or (2) extra hours because e m ­
ployee assigned to next shift did not report; (b) any
employee (1) when extra hours were required for
shift changes or (2) for starting or shutting down
operation.
Eliminated: Provision withholding overtime pay for
starting or shutting down operation.
Added to contract at this time although the provi­
sions of the Fair Labor Standards Act were applied
since 1938.

13
C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Effective date

Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision
Overtime pay— CorLtinued

June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).

June 1, 1952
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1953
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1958
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

Changed: Overtime rate paid for all hours
worked in excess of 16 in a 24-hour period
until employee had 8 hours' rest.

Changed: Employee working 16 hours or more paid
at applicable rate for meal periods taken in other
than first 8 hours.
Next scheduled shift of e m ­
ployee working 16 hours not to be changed to avoid
payment of overtim e.
Changed: Overtime rate paid employee working
24 consecutive hours for all meal periods taken.

Changed: Overtime rate paid for all hours
when employee worked more than 16 con­
secutive hours until 8 hours' rest was
provided.

Meal period in first 8 hours not considered time
worked.

Added: Sunday work included in total hours worked
for purposes of computing weekly overtim e.
Changed: Time and one-half paid for work
in excess of 8 in a 2 4 -hour period until
employee had 8 hours' rest.
Added: F irst 8 hours worked and paid for at ov er­
time rate under 16 hours provision, and hours paid
for but not worked on a holiday, included in total
hours worked for purposes of computing weekly
overtim e.

Holiday pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1938
(agreement of
same date).
Aug. 5, 1945 1__

June 1, 1946 1_

Time and one-half for work on 4 specified
holidays. No payment for holidays not
worked.

Easter Sunday, Fourth
Christmas Day.

Added:

Thanksgiving Day.

1 holiday (total 5)_.

Changed: 3 paid holidays established for
which employees with 90 days' service or
more and not required to work received
8 hours' straight-tim e pay.

Added:

1 paid holiday (total 4)___

June 1, 1949___
June 1, 1952
(agreement
dated May 31,
1952).

June 1, 1954
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1958
(agreement of
same date).

Added: 2 paid holidays (total 6). Tim e and
one-half plus holiday pay (double time and
one-half) for work on 4 previously estab­
lished holidays, straight-tim e plus holiday
pay (double time) for work on 2 new
holidays.
Changed: Time and one-half plus holiday
pay (double time and one-half) for work on
all 6 recognized holidays.

See footnote on p. 22.




of July,

Labor

Day,

and

Christm as Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day.
Employees required to work on these holidays
received straight-tim e pay and provided another
day off with pay.
To be eligible for holiday pay
employee must have worked 2 scheduled workdays
preceding and 2 scheduled workdays following
holiday. Pay not provided employee scheduled to
work holiday who failed to report for personal
reasons.
Employee on vacation during holiday
to receive holiday pay in addition to vacation
allowance.
Easter Sunday.
Plants to close on Labor Day,
Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving Day; to operate
on Easter Sunday.
Pay for 1 holiday in layoff period of 90 days or
less provided employee on return to work.
Thanksgiving Day and Dec. 24.

Added; Maximum hours of work on day preceding
holiday limited to 12.
Changed: Plants to close on all holidays except
Thanksgiving Day which was optional. Pay for all
holidays in layoff period of 90 days or le ss pro­
vided employee on return to work.

14
C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

Holiday pay— Continued
June 1, 1959
(agreement
dated June 18,
1959).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

Added:

1 paid holiday (total 7)---

---

-----

December 26.

Plants to be closed on this holiday.

Hours paid but not worked on a holiday included in
hours worked for overtime purposes.

Paid vacations
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1939
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1941
(agreement
dated May 31,
1942).

June 1, 1942
(agreement of
same date).
June 16, 1944
(approved by
National War
Labor Board,
Sept. 29, 1944).
June 1, 1949
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1950
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Employee permitted to take up to 2 weeks* unpaid
vacation a year, on 30 days' written notice.
Established: 1 w eek's vacation with pay at
2 percent previous ye a r's earnings p rovided employee with 2 y e a r s' continuous
service or more and 1 ,4 0 0 hours of work
in previous year. Pay in lieu of vacation,
at company option.
Changed: Eligibility requirement reduced to
1 year.
Pay in lieu of vacation to equal
3 percent of earnings.
Added: 2 weeks' vacation with 4 percent of
previous y ear's earnings provided e m ­
ployee with 5 years' service or m ore;
6 percent when required to work during
the 2 weeks.

Vacation pay provided employee when employment
relationship was terminated.
Added: 3 weeks' vacation with 6 percent
of previous y ear's earnings provided e m ­
ployee with 15 years' service or m ore;
9 percent when required to work during
the 3 weeks.

June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).
Dec. 1, 1952
(agreement
dated Nov. 29,
1952).
June 1, 1953
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1956
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1957
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1959
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1963
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1964
(agreement
dated June 1,
1963).




Continuous employment broken only by discharge
for cause or voluntary separation.

Added: Vacation pay at appropriate rate, but not
vacation, provided employee unable to work 1 ,40 0
hours in previous year because of occupational
injury.
Changed to: 2 weeks' vacation after 3 years'
continuous service.

Added: Employee permitted to charge against vaca­
tion, absences due to his own illness or illness or
death in fam ily.
Reduced: Minimum hours worked in p re ­
vious year— to 1 ,0 4 0 .
Added: 4 weeks' vacation with 8 percent
of previous year's earnings provided, e m ­
ployee with 25 years' service or m ore;
12 percent if required to work the 4 weeks.
Changed to: 3 weeks' vacation after 10
years' continuous service.
Changed to: 4 weeks' vacation
years' continuous service.

after

23

Changed to; 4 weeks' vacation
years' continuous service.

after

20

Added: 5 weeks' vacation with 10 percent
of previous y e a r's earnings provided e m ­
ployee with 30 years' service or m ore;
15 percent when required to work the
5 weeks.

P ro rata vacation pay provided employee
3 years' service or more when terminated.

with

Added: P ro rata vacation pay provided employee
with 3 years' service or more but less than 1 ,04 0
hours of work in previous year.

15
C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Effective date

Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

Provision
Paid vacations— Continued

June 1, 1965
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1966
(agreement
dated June 1,
1965).

Changed: 4 weeks' vacation after 15 years'
continuous service.
Changed: 5 w eeks' vacation after 25 years'
continuous serv ice, 6 weeks with 12 p er­
cent of previous years' earnings after
30 y e a r s, 18 percent when required to
work the 6 weeks.

C a ll-in pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19*
1938).
June 1, 1939
(agreement of
same date).

Minimum of 3 hours' pay guaranteed e m ­
ployee called to perform repair or m ainte­
nance work; 4 hours' guaranteed employee
called to change paper machine w ires.
Changed: 4 -hour guarantee extended to r e ­
pair and maintenance work and changing
Fourdrinier w ire s, welt fe lts, and dryer
felts.

June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).

June 1, 1952
(agreement of
same date).

June 1, 1956
(agreement
same date).
June 1, 1959
(agreement
same date).
June 1, 1961
(agreement
same date).
June 1, 1962
(agreement
same date).

of

Not applicable to employees on extra board who
were required to report for work regularly until
assigned to regular job.
Added: When regular plus extra hours worked e x­
ceeded 8, employee to be paid greater of sum
due under ca ll-in or overtime provisions.
Not applicable to employee held over at end of shift.
Changed: Guarantee made applicable to employee
on extra board.
Added: Not applicable to employee in m ill yard
or called -in for planned, anticipated, or p redeter­
mined work.
Added: Guarantee made applicable to employee r e ­
quired to work beyond regular shift to change
paper machine w ires and employee called -in at
other than designated starting time to perform
em ergency work.
Added: Guarantee extended to any work on paper
machine proper.
Added: Guarantee extended to any work of 2 hours
and 40 minutes or less that was not a continuation
of a regular shift.
Changed:
Guarantee extended to planned, antici­
pated, and predetermined work.

of

of

Added; Guarantee extended to dayworkers called
back to work after shift was completed.
Changed: Guarantee extended to employee in m ill
yard when called -in to work.

of

Reporting pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19
1938).
June 1, 1941
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: Minimum of 2 hours' work
guaranteed employee called to work or not
properly notified of lack of work.

June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).




Not applicable when lack of work was caused by
conditions beyond control of company or to extra
men assigned to roster containing larger work
force than was required.
Extra board employee required to report at spe­
cific tim es or for specific shifts to be eligible for
minimum guarantee after accumulating 30 days'
service.

16
C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

Reporting pay— Continued
June 1, 1958
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

Added: Minimum 4 hours' pay guaranteed
employee put to work.
Changed: Minimum of 2 hours' pay guaran­
teed employee not put to work.

Paid rest periods
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19*
1938).
June 1, 1951
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established for women employees in Mobile
bag factory and all continuous finishing
room operations— two 10-minute paid rest
periods.

Paid sick leave
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1955
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: 40 hours paid sick leave at
regular hourly rate provided employee with
6 months' service or more incapacitated
2 weeks or more by sickness or nonoccupational injury.

Employee required to provide medical evidence of
inability to perform duties.
Leave limited to
1 illness in contract year.

June 1, 1963
(agreement of
same date).

E lim in a te d ;

See "Insurance p la n ."

Sir.k l e a v e

pay

Jury duty pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1959
(agreement of
same date).




No provision.

Established: Difference between straighttime hourly rate tim es regular scheduled
hours (8-hour period) and statutory fee
paid employee while serving on jury.

Jury duty not included in hours worked for overtime
purposes.

17
C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

Provision

Effective date

Severance pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: Plan providing employee with
1 year’ s service or m ore, laid -off because
of lack of work, with maximum of 1 p e r cent of total earnings during last period
of unbroken employment. Half benefit paid
after 6 weeks' layoff, remainder after
3 months.

Unpaid benefits (1) not paid to employee recalled
and who returned to work before payment was due,
(2) canceled for employee recalled before receipt
of benefit if he did not return to work.
New earnings credits to be accumulated on return
to work. Employee recalled before 3-month period
to retain credit for unpaid balance of severance
benefits.

Funeral leave
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Jan. 19,
1938).
June 1, 1959
(agreement of
same date).

No provision.

Established: Up to 3 paid days of absence
a t regular straight-tim e r a t e allowed
because of death in immediate fam ily.

June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

Immediate fam ily defined as spouse, mother, father,
brothers, siste r s, sons, and daughters.
Paid leave limited to day before, day of, and day
after funeral, and to 8 hours a day for absences
that fe ll on scheduled days of work.
No pay provided employee who did not attend
funeral.
Not included in hours worked for overtime purposes.
Added: To definition of immediate fam ily— m otherin-law and fath er-in -law .

Mealtime pay
June 1, 1937
(agreement
dated Janl 16,
1938).
June 1, 1951
(agreement
dated Oct. 12,
1951).

No provision.

Dec. 2, 1952
(agreement
dated Nov. 29,
1952).
June 1, 1953
(agreement of
same date).

Changed: M eal periods provided (1) dayworkers after 2 hours on extended shift,
and (2) shift w orkers at approximately re g ­
ular m eal, intervals during extended shift.
Changed: Paid m eal period provided before
start of overtime and each 5 hours there­
after to employee required to work ov er­
time after assigned 12-hour shift.

Established: Paid m eal period, but n o t
m eals, provided employee after 3 hours'
work beyond assigned shift and at 5 - hour
intervals thereafter.




Meal periods limited to 30 to 40 minutes.
Not
applicable to employee who exchanged shifts at
own request.
One-half hour's pay at overtime rates in lieu of
meal period provided employee required to work
up to 1 hour beyond regular schedule.
Women in Mobile bag factory and all continuous
finishing room operations provided 20-minute paid
lunch period.

Added: Company to send and
ployee unable to leave job
periods. Employee required
period could elect full lunch

pay for meal of em ­
at designated meal
to work part of lunch
period later in shift.

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C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

M ealtime pay— Continued
June 1, 1958
(agreement of
same date).
June 1, 1961
(agreement of
same date).

Changed: Paid meal periods provided shift
workers on double shifts.

M eal periods to be provided at approximately regu­
lar mealtim es during additional shift.
Changed: Women in Mobile bag factory and all
continuous finishing room operations— 20-minute
paid lunch period in m ills with 2 shifts limited
to 2d shift. Previous practice continued in m ills
with 3 shifts.

Insurance plans
Plans established in 1923, not covered by collective
bargaining agreement.
Employee
to contribute
25 to 75 cents a week. 2

June 1, 1937

Sept. 1, 1 938____

Oct. 1, 1947_____

June 1, 1950__

Dec. 1, 1952_____

Contributory plan available to employees
with 6 months' service or m ore, providing:
Life insurance— $ 1, 000 to $ 3 , 000 depending
on annual earnings. 2

Accidental death or dism em berm ent—
Death— double face value of life insurance.
Dism em berm ent— one-half to full face value
of life insurance depending on extent of
lo ss.
Total and permanent disability benefits—
$ 51 .0 4 to
$54 a m o n t h
for 20 to 40
months. 2
Sickness and accident benefits— $10 to $20
a week for maximum of 2Z weeks 2 for
each nonoccupational disability; payable
from 8th day of disability.
Visiting nurse service— provided in home,
as n ecessary.
Added:
For retired employees:
Life and accidental death or d ism em ber­
ment— face value of insurance at time of
retirement made available to employee
with 15 years' service or more and eligible
under the pension plan, at cost of 60 cents
per $ 1 ,0 0 0 .3

Added:
For retired em ployees:
Life and accidental death or dismember . ment— face value of insurance at time of
retirement provided without cost to e m ­
ployee, with 15 years' service or more
and eligible under pension plan.
Changed to: Sickness and accident benefits—

Life and accidental death and dismemberment in­
surance increased $100 for each year's service up
to 5. Employee with annual earnings of $ 2 , 500 but
less than $ 5 , 000 permitted to subscribe to addi­
tional $ 2 ,0 0 0 coverage (at cost of 35 cents a
week); employee earning $ 5 ,0 0 0 or more could
subscribe for the $ 2 , 000 (at the stated rate) plus
$ 5 ,0 0 0 additional coverage (at cost of 83 cents
a week).
In addition to total and permanent disability benefits.

Paid in lieu of death benefits.

A ll insurance: Coverage levels maintained for d is­
abled employee required to accept job with lower
than predisability
wage rate; company to pay
difference between contribution required at form er
and new earnings.
Company assumed entire contributions of employee
disabled 8 days or m ore.
Insurance extended 6 months for employee te m ­
porarily laid off or on approved leave of absence;
employee to continue contributions.
Employee who retired in good health before age
65 required to contribute to that age. 3 Insurance
continued without cost during period retiree r e ­
ceived sickness and accident benefits or w ork­
m en's compensation, up to 26 weeks.

$ 1 0 to $ 2£TlT"week7*
June 1, 1954_____
June 1, 1955_____

Increased: Sickness and accident benefits—
maximum to $28. 5
Added:
Noncontributory hospital - su rgica l-m e d ical
plan for employees with 6 months' service
or m ore, providing: 6
Hospitalization:
Room and board— up to $12 a day, m axi­
mum $840.
Special services— up to $150.
M aternity-obstetrical— $150 f o r normal
delivery, $75 to $225 for other procedures.

See footnotes on p. 22.




Coverage extended up to 2 months during periods
of temporary layoff; to termination of scheduled
services for hospitalization and pregnancy, in
effect on date employment relationship ceased, or
surgery perform ed prior to that date. Retired
em ployees' benefits provided for 1 disability in
each 12-month period.

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C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Effective date

Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

Provision
Insurance plans— Continued

June 1, 1955—
Continued

June 1, 1956__

June 1, 1958__

M edical ca re ;
D octor's services— $4 for each hospital
v isit, maximum $250.
Surgical benefits:
Surgical schedule— up to $250.
Increased to;
Sickness and a c c i d e n t benefits— $15 to
$37 .5 0 a week. 7
Added:
For retired employees;
Life and accidental death or d ism em ber­
ment insurance— reduced coverage at com ­
pany expense provided employee retired
at age 65 with 10 but less than 15 years'
service. 8

June 1, 1959__

June 1, 1961__

Increased;

L ife

insurance— maximum

to

$ 10, 0 00 . 9

Total and permanent disability benefits—
m aximum , to $180 a month for 60 m onths.9
Sickness and accident benefits— $20 to $50
a week. 9 Maternity benefits up to 6 weeks
added.
Changed: For employees and dependents,
hospital- surgical-m edical program— from
indemnity to service (Blue C ross-B lu e
Shield) benefit plan providing:

Hospitalization: Room a n d board— up to
70 days per adm ission; in member h os­
pital, full semiprivate room charge; in
nonmember hospital, actual charges up to
$10 a day.
Special se rv ice s— for charges other than
room or board, in member hospitals full
coverage up to 70 days an admission for
the following se rv ice s: Use of operating,
recovery and treatment rooms and equip­
ment, drugs and medicines for use in
hospital; dressin gs, ordinary splints and
plaster ca sts, and, when provided and
billed as a regular hospital serv ice, labo­
ratory and X -r a y examinations, e le ctro­
cardiogram s, intravenous injections and
solutions, physical therapy, oxygen and its
administration, administration of blood and
blood plasm a, and anesthetics and their
administration.
In nonmember hospitals, 75 percent of a c ­
tual charges for services and supplies
listed for m em ber hospitals.
Em ergency care— in m em ber and nonmem­
ber hospitals, c h a r g e s for emergency
surgical or medical care and treatment
within 24 hours of accident.
M aternity benefits— full coverage for h os­
pital charges for maximum of 10 days.
Surgical benefits— surgical schedule up to
$300.
Anesthesia— greater of $15 or 20 percent
of scheduled surgical fee for adm inistra­
tion of anesthesia by doctor not in charge
of case.
See footnotes on p. 22.




Added: Company to contribute $2 a month towards
cost of dependents h osp ital-surgical-m edical bene­
fits. Benefits identical to those provided employee.
Changed: Company assum ed full cost of life, a c c i­
dental death and dism em berm ent, and sickness and
accident insurance for active em ployees.
Added: A ll group insurance extended up to 8 weeks,
at company expense, for employee tem porarily
laid off through no fault of his own; could be e x­
tended additional 4 months by payment of contri­
bution by employee.
Eliminated:
O p p o r tu n ity
to elect additional
insurance.

Company to continue paying full cost of employee
coverage; contribution for dependents increased to
$3 a month.
Dependent defined as spouse and children (1) under
19 years of age, (2) if full time student, to age
23, or (3) during period of permanent incapacity.
Employee using private room in m em ber hospital to
pay difference between that charge and hospital's
average charge for semiprivate accom modations,
up to $ 10 a day.
Benefits limited to 30 days in 12 consecutive months
for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis or mental
or nervous d isorders.
Supplies and services available only to bed patients
and limited to drugs and medicines listed in offi­
cial form ularies.
Hospitalization benefits not available for; Services
of doctors and technicians not employed by hospital
or special n urses; occupational disabilities or
those for which treatment was provided by statute;
chronic alcoholism or drug addiction after diag­
noses; diagnostic studies o r tests o r physical
therapy; plastic surgery or cosm etic treatment
unless n ecessary to correct traumatic injury;
personal comfort se rv ice s; X -r a y a n d radium
therapy a n d radium isotopes; blood o r blood
plasm a; convalescent care; dental care by other
than licensed doctor of medicine unless n e ce s­
sitated by accident, special braces, appliances or
equipment.

Up to 70 days'hospitalization provided for ectopic
pregnancies.
Surgical and m edical exclusions alm ost identical to
hospitalization exclusions.

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C---- Related Wage Practices---- Continued
Applications, exceptions, and other
related matters

Provision

Effective date

Insurance plans— Continued
June 1, 1961—
Continued

Obstetrical benefits— up to $90 for normal
delivery, $60 to $250 for other procedures.
M edical benefits— doctor's services up to $4
for each of maximum of 70 hospital visits.

Diagnostic X -r a y examinations— $5 to $35,
maximum $50 in 12 consecutive months.

June 3, 1963_____

Laboratory services— $15 to $ 25 , maximum
$50 in 12 consecutive months.
Increased to: Sickness and accident benefits— $23 to $70 a week payable from first
of hospitalization or accident and 4th day
of sickness. 10

Limited to 1 treatment a day. Not available for
patient who had received surgical or obstetrical
care.
Available for pulmonary tuberculosis or
mental disorders up to 30 days in 12 consecutive
months.
Not available for: Pregnancy, care of teeth, r e ­
search studies, screening, routine physical or
prem arital examinations, r o u t i n e hospital ad­
m ission procedures, fluroscopy without film s , or
examinations not necessary to a diagnosis.

Discontinued: 1 week's
40 tim es hourly rate.

paid sick

leave a year at

Retirement plan
Jan. 1, 1937____
Feb. 1, 1946____

No provision.
Established: Contributory p la n requiring
employee contributions and company pay­
ments and providing benefits (in addition
to Federal old -age, survivors' and d isa­
bility insurance) as follows:
Contributions: Employee— 21U percent of
firs t $ 3 , 000 annual earnings and 4 1/2 p er­
cent of remainder up to $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 ; com ­
pany— actuarially determined amounts suf­
ficient to fund prior service credits and,
with employee contributions, to provide
benefits based on service after plan was
established.
Normal retirement annuity— employee aged
55 or older to receive: (1) For service
after plan was established, basic annual
benefits equal to the sum of 0.75 percent
of first $ 3 , 000 earned plus 1.5 percent of
earnings above $ 3 , 000 but not in excess
of $ 1 5 , 000 tim es credited years in plan,
plus (2) for 6th and subsequent years of
company service before plan was estab­
lished and after reaching age 30, basic
annual benefits of 0.5 percent of first
$ 3 ,0 0 0 and 1 percent of earnings above
$ 3 ,0 0 0 , but not in excess of $ 1 5 ,0 0 0
tim es credited years of service.
E arly retirement annuity— employee aged 55
but under ?>5 with 20 years' service or
m ore retired with consent or at request
of company could elect (1) immediate actu­
arially reduced annuity, or (2) deferred
normal benefit payable at age 65.
J pint and survivor ship o p t i o n — providing
actuarially reduced annuities to employee
and beneficiary.

See footnote on p. 23.




Plan was established Jan. 1, 1945, benefits were
first paid and employee contributions were c o l­
lected on effective date shown.

To be eligible to participate, employee must have
(1) been 30 years of age or over, (2) been regu­
larly employed, full tim e, and (3) had 5 years'
service since last break in service of more than
12 months.
Benefits of employee whose plan coverage was d is­
continued for any reason, except m ilitary or other
approved leave, to be based on earnings in last
period of service after rejoining plan.
Annual earnings for period before plan was estab­
lished based on 2 ,4 9 6 hours at basic hourly rate in
effect im m ediately prior to establishment of plan.

Employee could elect amount payable after re tire e's
death to beneficiary to equal or one-half basic
benefit or any other proportion acceptable to r e ­
tirement board.
Contributions plus interest paid beneficiary of e m ­
ployee who died before retiring; balance of con­
tribution paid beneficiary of retiree who died,
without electing optional benefits, before benefits
equaled contributions.

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C---- Related Wage Practices— Continued
Effective date

Applications, exceptions, and other
related m atters

Provision
Retirement plan— Continued

June 1, 1950_____

Dec. 1, 1952_____

June 1, 1955__ __

June 1, 1958_____

June 1, 1961_____

July 1, 1963_____

Oct. 1, 1 963_____
June 1, 1965_____

June 1, 1966_____
June 1, 1967_____
June 1, 1968— ,—

Increases: Contributions— maximum income
on w h i c h contributions w e r e paid— to
$ 30 , 000.
Norm al retirem ent annuity—maximum earnings used to compute annuity, to $ 3 0 , 000.
Added: Vesting— employee age 50 or over
with 25 years' credited service or more
terminated f o r any reason could elect
(1) deferred normal annuity at a g e 65
based on compensation a n d service at
termination, or (2) to withdraw own con­
tribution plus interest.
Added: Disability retirement annuity—- im mediate actuarially reduced annuity p ro­
vided employee totally and permanently
disabled.
Added: Disability retirem ent annuity— i m mediate normal annuity, based on earnings
and se rv ice , provided totally and perm a­
nently disabled employee with 25 years'
service or m ore.
Added: Minimum monthly annuity— $50 for
employee with 15 years' service or more
at age 65, reduced proportionately for less
than 15 years' service.
Reduced: Vesting— age, to 45; years of
credited service to 20.
Increased: Normal retirement annuity— by
one-third for credited s e r v i c e before
Jan. 1, 1961.
Changed: Minimum monthly annuity— $50 for
employee with 15 but less than 20 years'
serv ice, $55 for 20 but less than 25 years,
and $60 for 25 years' or m ore; employee
with less than 15 years to receive, annu­
ally, $40 tim es years of service.
Changed: Disability retirement annuity—im mediate annuity based on earnings and ser­
vice at time of disability for employee with
(1) le ss than 20 years' service— normal
annuity actuarially reduced for years below
65, (2) 20 years' service or more— normal
annuity.
Removed: $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 lim it on earnings.
Reduced: Contributions of employee on first
$ 3 ,0 0 0 annual earnings, by 25 percent.

Disability retirement annuity— service r e quired for unreduced benefits, to 15 years.
Increased: Norm al retirement annuity— all
benefits earned before Jan. 1, 1965, by
15 percent; for service after Dec. 31,
1964— by 0 .8 7 5 percent
of first $ 3 ,0 0 0
earned.
Added: E arly retirement annuity— employee
aged 62 but under 65 with 20 years' s e r ­
vice or more to receive full annuity based
on years of service and earnings.
Joint a n d survivorship option— spouse of
employee aged 63 or over with 30 years'
service or m ore, who died before receiv­
ing annuity, could elect to receive a benefit
under a 5 0 -p ercen t survivorship option.
Reduced:
Contributions— by additional 25
percent of original contribution.
Reduced: Contributions— by additional 25
percent of original contribution.
Eliminated; Contributions— of employees on
first $ 3 , 000 annual earnings.




Reduced: Service required to participate in plan
since last break in service in excess of 12 months,
to 3 years.

Applicable to employee retiring after May 31, 1958.
Added: F or employee retired before June 1, 1958,
supplemental allowance p r o v i d e d by company
continued.

Changed; Employee who was a contributory member
of plan on June 1, 1965, or joined plan within
90 days, and who (1) had discontinued contributions
after a prior period of m em bership, (2) had been
employed continuously, and (3) had not withdrawn
contributions, to have benefits based on all earn­
ings while a m em ber of plan.

Employee must have designated, 60 days or more
before death, widow as beneficiary with right to
receive accumulated contributions. Spouse to r e ­
ceive one-half benefit employee would have r e ­
ceived had he retired.

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Footnotes:

1 Date of agreement not available.
2 Benefit levels were determined by an em ployee’ s computed earnings as follows:

Disability
Life
insurance

Annual earnings
Under $ 1 ,5 0 0 ____________________
$ 1 ,5 0 0 and under $2, 500______
$2, 500 and o v e r ________________

$ 1 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
3 ,0 0 0

Monthly
payment

Number of W eekly sickness
Weekly
months
and accident
contribution
20
40
60

$51. 04
52. 50
5 4 .0 0

$10
15
20

$0. 25
. 50
. 75

3 Weekly contributions ranged from $ 0 .6 0 to $ 1 .8 0 depending on earnings prior to retirem ent.
4 Earnings cla sse s and sickness and accident benefits were changed as follows:

Annual earnings

Weekly sickness
and accident
benefits

Under $ 1 ,0 4 0 __________ _________
$ 1 ,0 4 0 and under $ 1 ,1 4 4 ______
$ 1 ,1 4 4 and under $ 1 ,2 4 8 ______
$ 1 ,2 4 8 and under $ 1 ,3 5 2 ______
$ 1 ,3 5 2 and under $ 1 ,4 5 6 ______
$ 1 ,4 5 6 and under $ 1 ,5 6 0 .._____
$ 1 ,5 6 0 and under $ 1 ,6 6 4 ______
$ 1 ,6 6 4 and under $ 1 ,7 6 8 ______
$ 1 ,7 6 8 and under $ 1 ,8 7 2 ______

$10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

Weekly sickness
and accident
benefits

Annual earnings
$ 1 ,8 7 2
$ 1 ,9 7 6
$ 2 ,0 8 0
$ 2 ,1 8 4
$ 2 ,2 8 8
$ 2 ,3 9 2
$ 2 ,4 9 6
$ 2 ,5 0 0
$ 2 ,6 0 0

and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and
and

under $ 1 ,9 7 6 ______
under $ 2 ,0 8 0 ______
under $ 2 ,1 8 4 ______
under $2, 288______
under $ 2 ,3 9 2 ______
under $ 2 ,4 9 6 ______
under $ 2 ,5 0 0 ______
under $ 2 , 600__
o v e r ________________

$19
20
21
22
23
24
25
25
26

5 Earnings cla sse s and benefits were extended as follows:
Weekly sickness
and accident
benefits

Annual earnings
$ 2 ,6 0 0 and
$ 2 ,7 0 4 and
$ 2 ,8 0 8 and

under $ 2 ,7 0 4 _____
under $ 2 ,8 0 8 __________
o v e r ___________________

$26
27
28

6 At their own expense, employees could provide this coverage for their dependents, and retirees could
subscribe for them selves and their dependents.
7 Earnings cla sse s and sickness and accident benefits were changed as follows:
Weekly sickness
and accident
benefits

Annual earnings

$ 1 5 .0 0
17. 50
20. 00
22. 50
25. 00

Under $ 1 ,5 6 0 ________________
$ 1 ,5 6 0 and under $ 1 ,8 2 0 ----$ 1 ,8 2 0 and under $ 2 ,0 8 0 ----$ 2 ,0 8 0 and under $2, 340___
$ 2 ,3 4 0 and under $ 2 ,6 0 0 ___

Weekly sickness
and accident
benefits

Annual earnings
$2, 600
$2, 860
$3, 120
$ 3 ,3 8 0
$ 3 ,6 4 0
$ 3,9 0 0

and
and
and
and
and
and

$ 2 7 .5 0
30. 00
32. 50
3 5.0 0
37. 50
40. 00

under $2, 860
_ _
under $3, 120______
under $3, 380______
under $ 3 ,6 4 0 ______
under $ 3 ,9 0 0 ______
o v e r _______

8 Face value of insurance was as follows:
Y ears of service
10
11
12
13
14

and
and
and
and
and

under
under
under
under
under

11
12
13
14
15

Insurance

y e a r s _____ ___________
y e a r s -------- ___________
y e a r s _____ . _________
y e a r s _____ ___________
y e a r s _____ ___________

$550
1,100
1,650
2 ,7 5 0
4 ,1 2 5

9 Benefit levels were determined by an em ployee’ s earnings as follow s:
Accidental death and
dism em berm ent
Annual earnings

Life
insurance

Death

Under $ 1 ,5 0 0 _________________
$ 1 ,5 0 0 and under $ 2 ,5 0 0 -----$ 2 ,5 0 0 and under $ 3 ,0 0 0 -----$ 3 ,0 0 0 and under $ 3 ,5 0 0 ____
$ 3 ,5 0 0 and under $ 4 ,0 0 0 -----$ 4 ,0 0 0 and under $ 4 ,5 0 0 ____
$ 4 ,5 0 0 and under $ 5 ,0 0 0 -----$ 5 ,0 0 0 and o v e r _____________

$ 1 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
10,0 0 0

$ 1 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,0 0 0
3 ,0 0 0
3 ,0 0 0




Dism em berm ent
$500—$ 1 ,0 0 0
1 ,0 0 0 - 2 ,0 0 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,0 0 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,0 0 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,0 0 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0

________ Disability
Monthly
payment
$51. 04
52. 50
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
1 80.00

Number of
months
20
40
60
60
60
60
60
60

Weekly
Monthly
sickness
and accident contribution
$20
25
30
35
40
45
50
50

$1. 08
2. 17
4 .7 7
4 .7 7
4 .7 7
4 .7 7
4 .7 7
8. 37

23
Footnotes— Continued

10 Earnings cla sse s
extended as follows:

changed to an hourly basis

(approximately form er

Accidental death and
dism em berm ent
Annual earnings

Life
insurance

Death

Dism em berm ent

L ess than $ 1 ,5 0 0 ______________
$ 1 ,5 0 0 but less than $ 2 ,0 0 0 __
$ 2 ,0 0 0 but less than $ 2 ,5 0 0 __
$2, 500 but less than $3, 000__
$ 3 ,0 0 0 but less than $3, 500__
$3, 500 but less than $4, 000__
$ 4 ,0 0 0 but less than $ 4 ,5 0 0 __
$ 4 ,5 0 0 but less than $ 5 ,0 0 0 __
$ 5 ,0 0 0 but less than $ 5 ,5 0 0 __
$ 5 ,5 0 0 but less than $ 6 ,0 0 0 __
$ 6 ,0 0 0 but less than $ 6 ,5 0 0 —
$ 6 ,5 0 0 and o v e r .. _________ _

$ 1 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
5 ,0 0 0
10,0 0 0
1 0,000
10,0 0 0
1 0,000

$ 1 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
2 ,0 0 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0
3 ,00 0

$ 5 0 0 - $ l ,000
1 ,0 0 0 - 2 ,0 0 0
1 ,0 0 0 - 2 ,0 0 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0
1 ,5 0 0 - 3 ,00 0




cla sse s

on an annual basis) and

__________ Disability
Monthly
payment
$51. 04
52. 50
52. 50
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
90. 00
180.00
180.00
180.00
1 80.00

Number of
months
20
40
40
60
60
60
60
60
60
6a
60
60

Weekly
sickness
and accident
$20
25
30
35
40
45
50
54
58
63
66
70




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The following list constitutes all wage chronologies published to date.
Those for which a price is shown are available from the Superintendent of Docu­
ments, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D . C . , 20202, or from
any of its regional sales offices. Those for which a price is not shown may be
obtained free as long as a supply is available, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Washington, D . C . , 20212, or from any of the regional offices shown on the inside
back cover.
Aluminum Company of A m erica, 1939—61. BLS Report 219.
American V iscose, 1945—63. BLS Report 277 (20 cents).
The Anaconda Co. , 1941—48. BLS Report 197.
Anthracite Mining Industry, 1930—66. BLS Bulletin 1494 (20 cents).
Armour and Co. , 1941—67. BLS Bulletin 1481 (30 cents).
A . T . & T .— Long Lines Department, 1940—64. BLS Bulletin 1443
(40 cents).
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. , 1943—66. BLS Bulletin 1475 (20 cents).
Bethlehem Atlantic Shipyards, 1941—65. BLS Bulletin 1454 (25 cents).
Bituminous Coal Mines, 1933—66. BLS Bulletin 1461 (20 cents).
The Boeing Co. (Washington Plants), 1936—64. BLS Report 204 (20 cents).
Carolina Coach Co. , 1947—63. BLS Report 259.
Chrysler Corporation, 1939—64. BLS Report 198 (25 cents).
Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, 1945—63. BLS Report 205
(20 cents).
Dan River M ills, 1943—65. BLS Bulletin 1495 (15 cents).
Federal Classification Act Employees, 1924—64. BLS Bulletin 1442
(35 cents).
Ford Motor Company, 1941—64. BLS Report 99 (30 cents).
General Motors Corp. , 1939—66. BLS Bulletin 1532 (30 cents).
International Harvester Company, 1946—61. BLS Report 202.
International Shoe Co. , 1945—66. BLS Bulletin 1479 (20 cents).
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (California Company), 1937— 64 . BLS Report 231
(25 cents).
Martin—Marietta Corp. , 1944—64. BLS Bulletin 1449 (25 cents).
Massachusetts Shoe Manufacturing, 1945—66. BLS Bulletin 1471
(15 cents).
New York City Laundries, 1945—64. BLS Bulletin 1453 (20 cents).
North American Aviation, 1941—64. BLS Report 203 (25 cents).
North Atlantic Longshoring, 1934—61. BLS Report 234.
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding, 1941—64. BLS Report 254 (25 cents).
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. , 1943—66. BLS Bulletin 1499 (30 cents).
Pacific Longshore Industry, 1934—65. BLS Bulletin 1491 (25 cents).
Railroads— Nonoperating Employees, 1920—62. BLS Report 208 (25 cents).
Sinclair Oil Companies, 1941—66. BLS Bulletin 1447 (25 cents).
Swift & Co. , 1942—63. BLS Report 260 (25 cents).
United States Steel Corporation, 1937—64. BLS Report 186 (30 cents).
Western Greyhound Lines, 1945-63. BLS Report 245 (30 cents).
Western Union Telegraph Co. , 1943—63. BLS Report 160 (30 cents).




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