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1955 employee benefits booklet, "Your Group Coverage, Clairton Works Benefit Club of United States Steel Company," effective date March 1, 1955, underwritten by the Benefit Association of Railway Employees, Chicago, Illinois. About 5.4 x 7.9 inches. Condition: used, with light toning, minor handling wear and a faint crease; text clean and legible.
Opens with a typed letter "To All Employees of Clairton Works" dated 2/23/55, over the signature of Franklin W. Bishop, President of the Clairton Works Benefit Club, laying out doctor's call fees ($3 house calls, $2 office calls), x-ray and laboratory benefits, ambulance and anaesthesia allowances. Later pages detail the medical care rider and a full Surgical Expense Schedule listing maximum payments for operations from hernia repair to skull surgery.
A great snapshot of mid-century medical costs and steelworker benefits at the U.S. Steel Clairton coke works in the Mon Valley. Of interest to collectors of steel industry and labor history, Pittsburgh-area ephemera, insurance and medical history.
