[Typescript carbon, single sheet, on Hume Shipping Company letterhead. Marked in red ink in an upper corner: "WITHDRAWN PER MR. E.H. — 14/12/12." Kept in Helen Calder's cabinet, folder F-03, labeled "1908 Compensation Schedule — cover memo + schedule."]
HUME SHIPPING COMPANY Office of the President — 14 Main Street, Port Hume
MEMORANDUM — INTERNAL — FOR COMPANY USE ONLY
SUBJECT: Schedule of Standard Compensation for the Deaths of Company Employees in the Course of Company Service. DATED: 8 June 1908. PREPARED BY: Charles Reddick, Esq., counsel to the Company, at the request of the President. APPROVED BY: Edmund Hume, President, 12 June 1908.
The following schedule is adopted as the Company's standing policy in the matter of compensation to the families of employees killed in the course of the Company's service. The schedule is to be applied with such discretion as the circumstances of individual cases require; but the discretion is to be exercised downward only at the direction of the President personally, and the schedule is the floor and not the ceiling of the Company's obligation.
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RANK / POSITION BASE COMP. DEPENDENT SUPPLEMENT NOTES
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CAPTAIN OF VESSEL $3,500 per dependent: $400 (1)
CHIEF OFFICER / FIRST MATE $2,200 per dependent: $400
SECOND / THIRD OFFICER $1,600 per dependent: $300
CHIEF ENGINEER $2,200 per dependent: $400
SECOND ENGINEER $1,600 per dependent: $300
PURSER $1,200 per dependent: $300
BOATSWAIN $1,000 per dependent: $250
DECK HAND / STOKER / $800 per dependent: $200
ORDINARY SEAMAN
STEWARD / COOK / CABIN STAFF $700 per dependent: $200
CABIN BOY (IF UNDER 18) $500 per dependent: $300 (2)
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(1) The Captain figure does not include the additional death-in-command
allowance of $1,000 payable to the Captain's spouse in recognition of
particular sacrifice borne.
(2) Per dependent includes the boy's own parents as dependents, given the
nature of that employment.
PAYMENT METHOD. Compensation to be disbursed in a single lump-sum payment within 90 days of the Company's formal determination that the death is compensable. Payments to be accompanied by no waiver requirement, and by no non-disclosure requirement, on the part of the receiving family.
REVIEW. The schedule is to be reviewed by the President and the Company's counsel every five years. The figures may be adjusted upward for inflation; they are not to be adjusted downward without formal policy action by the President.
EXECUTION. This schedule is to be held in the Company's standing policy file in the office of the President, and a copy is to be furnished to the Company's counsel. No further copies are to be made without the President's specific direction. The schedule is not to be disclosed externally without the President's specific direction.
[signature] Edmund Hume, President. [signature] Charles Reddick, Counsel.
[at the foot of the page, in red ink in a clerk's hand:]
"Per Mr. E.H.'s written instruction to this office (letter to Mr. Reddick, 14 Dec 1912), the above schedule has been WITHDRAWN from the Company's standing policy file. The file's master copy has been returned to Mr. Reddick for safekeeping in his private office safe. This carbon copy, which was typed by Mrs. H. Calder in 1908 for the original distribution, has been returned to Mrs. Calder per Mr. Reddick's instruction. No other copies are known. The Company does not, at this date, maintain a schedule of standard compensation for deaths in service. — R. Standard, Office Manager, 15 Dec 1912."
[below that, in Calder's pencil:]
"Mr. Reddick handed me the carbon in his office on the afternoon of the 16th and said, 'Mrs. Calder, this is yours to keep.' I said, 'Sir, it is Company property.' He said, 'Mrs. Calder, it is no longer anyone's property. The President does not want it to be Company property. I do not want to be the one to hold it. You will keep it, and it will be, for the rest of its life, a document that no one asked to exist.' I took it home and placed it in the cabinet. It has sat in F-03 for fourteen years. — H.C., 1922."