Music Trade Review
Issue: 1923 Vol. 76 N. 4 - Page 6
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 27,
1923
A New and Delightful Walk Melody
WEAVER DOUBLES SICK BENEFITS
York Piano Manufacturer Makes Addition to
Benefits Paid by Employes' Association in
Case of Sickness or Death
YORK, PA., January 22.—Among the forms of
welfare work carried on in the factory of the
Weaver Piano Co. is the Weaver Piano Co.
Beneficial Association. This is a mutual non-
incorporated association of the men in the fac-
tory that pays sick and death benefits to its
members. Every employe of the company is
eligible to membership, which membership can
be retained after the employe leaves its em-
ploy.
The Association was organized February 7,
1891, with the following officers: President T.
R. Hendrickson, Vice-president H. H. Gifford,
Secretary Samuel Kottcamp and Treasurer Wm,
H. Poff. There was a total of thirty-seven
members, and as first organized the dues were
twenty-five cents per month per member, and
$5 per week was paid as a sick benefit. At the
death of a member each member of the Asso-
ciation was assessed fifty cents for the death
claim. The dues were entirely too small for
the amount of benefits paid and as a result, in
1895, the Association became bankrupt.
The idea, however, was so popular among the
men that several of them got together and ran
an excursion to Washington, which was very
successful and resulted in a profit. It was then
decided to pay $3 per week sick benefits, leaving
the dues the same until June, 1921, when the
benefits were increased to $5 per week and the
dues to fifty cents per month, sick benefits being
paid for thirteen weeks at the rate of $5 per
week and then $2 per week thereafter; $75 being
paid at the death of a member and $35 at the
death of a member's wife.
On January 1 of this year the Weaver Piano
Co. announced that it would duplicate the bene-
fits of the Association to any members of the
Association who are employes of the company
when sickness or death occurs, thus making
the sick benefits of employed members $10 per
week and the death benefits $150 and $70 at
the death of a member's wife.
In appreciation of this offer the following
communication was received by the Weaver
Co.:
"As officers of the Weaver l'iano Co. Bene-
ficial Association we wish to extend to you on
behalf of the members our most sincere thanks
for your kind consideration of your employes
belonging to this Association by granting them
the sum of $5 per week when sick or disabled,
the same as the Beneficial Society. Trusting
that the employes will show their appreciation
by closer co-operation in still making the
Weaver piano the best in the world and bring-
ing together better relations between employer
and employe for every future success, we re-
main, Yours for Service,
"President Charles H. Stauffer, Treasurer
Wm. H. Selemeyer and Secretary Jos. Beaver-
son."
The Association is conducted without ex-
pense; all the officers' services are voluntary.
The present officers of the Association are as
noted above with the addition of L. P. Hoopes,
vice-president, and the Association at the pres-
ent time has an active membership of one hun-
dred and seventy-two.
Since its organization this Association has al-
ways been an affair that was conducted by the
men of the company and the corporation took
no active part in its management. However,
the company naturally was very much interested
in the affairs of the Association, because they
realized that it was a great help to the men in
many ways and that it knitted the organization
closer together and is another indication of
the fact that the aim of the Weaver Piano Co.
has always been to develop men as well as
pianos.
Maynard Allen has been appointed assistant
manager of the New York retail branch of the
Story & Clark Piano Co. He has been with
the New York sales force for some time past.
NEW BILL FOR PRICE MAINTENANCE
Representative Merritt, of Connecticut, Intro-
duces Measure Making It Legal for Manu-
facturers of Trade-marked Articles to En-
force Observance of Resale Price
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 22.—The music
trade will be interested in an attempt which is
being made by Representative Merritt, of Con-
necticut, to provide for the maintenance of
prices on trade-marked commodities. The Con-
necticut Congressman has introduced a bill in
Congress "to prevent discrimination in prices,
to provide for publicity of prices and to protect
good-will."
Under the terms of the measure manufac-
turers of trade-marked or specially branded
commodities, in making contracts in interstate
commerce for their sale to any wholesale or
retail dealer, may, for the purpose of preventing
discrimination and protecting his good-will,
clearly mark on each unit of his product or the
container thereof the price at which it shall be
resold, and it shall be lawful for him to pre-
scribe the uniform price and manners of settle-
ment to all purchasers in like circumstances at
which the different qualities and quantities of
each article covered by such contract may be
resold.
It is stipulated in the measure, however, that
no privilege thereunder shall accrue to any
vendor who has a monopoly or control of the
market nor may he be a party to any agree-
ment, combination or understanding with any
competitor in the same general class in regard
to the price at which it shall be sold, either to
dealers, wholesale or retail, or to the public.
It is also provided that if the purchaser is un-
able to sell the goods at the published price he
shall first offer such goods to the seller at the
purchase price before they may be sold to the
public at less than the published price.
The bill has been referred to the House Com-
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
but is not likely to be reported.
PEGGY DEAR
L,igM, Tuneful and
OriginalFoxTrot
You can HEAR it
and BUY it HERE
Uou carit go wrong
tyith an? 'FEIST'song"
Dear,— Pe£gy dear. —You have tak-en mo com-plete-ly,—
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JANUARY 27,
1923
A New and Delightful Walk Melody
WEAVER DOUBLES SICK BENEFITS
York Piano Manufacturer Makes Addition to
Benefits Paid by Employes' Association in
Case of Sickness or Death
YORK, PA., January 22.—Among the forms of
welfare work carried on in the factory of the
Weaver Piano Co. is the Weaver Piano Co.
Beneficial Association. This is a mutual non-
incorporated association of the men in the fac-
tory that pays sick and death benefits to its
members. Every employe of the company is
eligible to membership, which membership can
be retained after the employe leaves its em-
ploy.
The Association was organized February 7,
1891, with the following officers: President T.
R. Hendrickson, Vice-president H. H. Gifford,
Secretary Samuel Kottcamp and Treasurer Wm,
H. Poff. There was a total of thirty-seven
members, and as first organized the dues were
twenty-five cents per month per member, and
$5 per week was paid as a sick benefit. At the
death of a member each member of the Asso-
ciation was assessed fifty cents for the death
claim. The dues were entirely too small for
the amount of benefits paid and as a result, in
1895, the Association became bankrupt.
The idea, however, was so popular among the
men that several of them got together and ran
an excursion to Washington, which was very
successful and resulted in a profit. It was then
decided to pay $3 per week sick benefits, leaving
the dues the same until June, 1921, when the
benefits were increased to $5 per week and the
dues to fifty cents per month, sick benefits being
paid for thirteen weeks at the rate of $5 per
week and then $2 per week thereafter; $75 being
paid at the death of a member and $35 at the
death of a member's wife.
On January 1 of this year the Weaver Piano
Co. announced that it would duplicate the bene-
fits of the Association to any members of the
Association who are employes of the company
when sickness or death occurs, thus making
the sick benefits of employed members $10 per
week and the death benefits $150 and $70 at
the death of a member's wife.
In appreciation of this offer the following
communication was received by the Weaver
Co.:
"As officers of the Weaver l'iano Co. Bene-
ficial Association we wish to extend to you on
behalf of the members our most sincere thanks
for your kind consideration of your employes
belonging to this Association by granting them
the sum of $5 per week when sick or disabled,
the same as the Beneficial Society. Trusting
that the employes will show their appreciation
by closer co-operation in still making the
Weaver piano the best in the world and bring-
ing together better relations between employer
and employe for every future success, we re-
main, Yours for Service,
"President Charles H. Stauffer, Treasurer
Wm. H. Selemeyer and Secretary Jos. Beaver-
son."
The Association is conducted without ex-
pense; all the officers' services are voluntary.
The present officers of the Association are as
noted above with the addition of L. P. Hoopes,
vice-president, and the Association at the pres-
ent time has an active membership of one hun-
dred and seventy-two.
Since its organization this Association has al-
ways been an affair that was conducted by the
men of the company and the corporation took
no active part in its management. However,
the company naturally was very much interested
in the affairs of the Association, because they
realized that it was a great help to the men in
many ways and that it knitted the organization
closer together and is another indication of
the fact that the aim of the Weaver Piano Co.
has always been to develop men as well as
pianos.
Maynard Allen has been appointed assistant
manager of the New York retail branch of the
Story & Clark Piano Co. He has been with
the New York sales force for some time past.
NEW BILL FOR PRICE MAINTENANCE
Representative Merritt, of Connecticut, Intro-
duces Measure Making It Legal for Manu-
facturers of Trade-marked Articles to En-
force Observance of Resale Price
WASHINGTON, D. C, January 22.—The music
trade will be interested in an attempt which is
being made by Representative Merritt, of Con-
necticut, to provide for the maintenance of
prices on trade-marked commodities. The Con-
necticut Congressman has introduced a bill in
Congress "to prevent discrimination in prices,
to provide for publicity of prices and to protect
good-will."
Under the terms of the measure manufac-
turers of trade-marked or specially branded
commodities, in making contracts in interstate
commerce for their sale to any wholesale or
retail dealer, may, for the purpose of preventing
discrimination and protecting his good-will,
clearly mark on each unit of his product or the
container thereof the price at which it shall be
resold, and it shall be lawful for him to pre-
scribe the uniform price and manners of settle-
ment to all purchasers in like circumstances at
which the different qualities and quantities of
each article covered by such contract may be
resold.
It is stipulated in the measure, however, that
no privilege thereunder shall accrue to any
vendor who has a monopoly or control of the
market nor may he be a party to any agree-
ment, combination or understanding with any
competitor in the same general class in regard
to the price at which it shall be sold, either to
dealers, wholesale or retail, or to the public.
It is also provided that if the purchaser is un-
able to sell the goods at the published price he
shall first offer such goods to the seller at the
purchase price before they may be sold to the
public at less than the published price.
The bill has been referred to the House Com-
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce,
but is not likely to be reported.
PEGGY DEAR
L,igM, Tuneful and
OriginalFoxTrot
You can HEAR it
and BUY it HERE
Uou carit go wrong
tyith an? 'FEIST'song"
Dear,— Pe£gy dear. —You have tak-en mo com-plete-ly,—
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