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it started to establish the principle on a
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--this was the first big company to establish a pension fund.
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It grew through the first few decades of the nineteenth century
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and by 1929 there were many pension funds.
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They started doing union pension funds.
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There were the cigar makers--that was a union--
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granite cutters and cigar makers--1905.
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Locomotive engineers--that was 1912--
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but many of these funds failed in 1929 and they were
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offered by companies for
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their employees or unions for their members.
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When companies offered pensions for their employees,