The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
FORD WAS COUNSEL FOR BOTH
DNE CONCERN SUED EMPLOYERS
FOR INJURIES TO EMPLOYEES.


Sr'Other Insured Employers Against Llabll-
Iiy Tor such DamaEGs-HIs F1sticuTs
with ACer Laid TO a Collision over
Rivalry I'm one Branch u the Enterprise.
Frank A. Acer, a director in the Peoples
SECURITY Company. who recently got into
n scrap with John Ford, a candidate on the
Hearst Murphy ticket for the supreme
Court. denies that he ever committed an
assault on the ex-senator, who Ia said TO
he u,~;ty handy with his fists. Acer says
that as a matter of fact it was Ford who
attacked him and that he merely resisted
violence on the part Of the candidate Tor
high judicial honors.
The scrap was the result OF the rivalry
of W companies which make it a business
of protecting the interests Of w~orkingmen
injured while at work. In October, 1908,
after the Peoples Security Company had
started in business the Employees Protec-
tive Assoc alton was organized. with NJ.
s.. Decker a. president, and Ford was re-
tanned as counsel. The concern sent letters
10 the presidents Of union organizations
which sad;
Thevery best legal talent has been engaged
and experienced investigators secured, Inc
service We are aule to give can only be 1corrcc
ut low price by having a large me moershlp
and thus reducing tho expense to the indi-
ViduAl. Our charges are less than one cent a
week,
We also extend this protection TO the entire
family of our members without additional
charge.
In conjunct ion with our counsel. ex-senator
John Ford. we are preparing a bill to he in
Produced AZ the next session OF the Legislature
90 the end that suits brought for collection OF
J.n,araa for paraopal I'm iurips are 70 be pre-
ferred. Al present in New York city a suit
for injury may be tied up for several years
before any decision Is reached; his Is mani
Testify unjust 10 the employee and in favor
of the employer.
One of the circulars sent by the concern
that advertised that Mr.. Ford was it's counsel
contained this appeal to w~orkingmen:
You may need the protection q membership
In the association affords before night and
20 may. not need it for months, perhaps
not at all: but is IL not worth many times
one dollar to know that in case OF an accident
your interests and those Of your family will be
promptly protected and the evidence neces-
sary for recovery preserved?
In the meantime Mr.. Ford was also
counsel for the Ocean Accident and Guar
antee Corporation, Ltd, OF London, whose
New York Office is at 340 Broadway. This
concern does a business complementary
to that for which the Employees Protective
Association was formed. II insures, ac-
oording 10 it's policy form, against loss
from common law or statutory laDllty
for damages on account of bodily injuries
by any employee or employees
OF the assured while on duty at the places
and in the occupations and within the
factories. shops or yards mentioned with
the schedule hereinafter contained
In order to find favor with the labor or
ganizations the Employees Protective As
sociation sent a committee to the Central
Federated Union with a view Of getting
the Endorsement OF that body. Mr.. Acer
had been, prior to the visit OF this com-
mittee to the central body, before various
labor organizations from time to time,
and he was very careful to explain to them
the dual position Mr.. Ford was willing to oc-
cupy. in the capacity Of counsel, upon the
one. side representing the employer and
upon the other the employee.
A committee Of the Federated Union
was appointed to investigate the Employees
Protective Association and they reported
adversely on the proposition. As a result
the association went out Of business, and
now Mr.. Ford has only the Ocean Corpora
ton as a client in the line Of damage suits.
Mr.. Ford was put opon the Murphy
Hearst ticket at the demand OF Mr.. Hearst,
who say he wants a judiciary Tree from
corporation control. Mr.. Ford admitted
the other day that not only was he a COR
p~oration lawyer, but that he only wished
he had more corporations to represent.
He would even take a retainer from the
sugar trust, he said, but he drew the line
on the Ryan-Belmont merger the gas com
bine and the beef trust. A companion OF his
on the Murphy-Hearst ticket, M. Wharley
Platzek. is not so squeamish about the
beef trust. He was attorney Tor the
Schwarzschild a Sulzberger Company whea
the beef trust was being criminally prose-
cuted in Chicago. Foul OF the members Of
the Schw arzschild concern were fined SIS, 600.