Constitution, 1877 (Rockland, 1877), Arts. 1-2.
Iron Molders' Journal, Vol. 26, May, 1890, p. 2.
Constitution, 1884 (Quincy, n.d.), p. 11 ff.
The death benefits established by the Cigar Makers and Iron Molders in 1870 and 1879 were for $40 and $100. The ordinary death benefit in American trade unions is still a sum assumed to be sufficient to inter decently the deceased.