New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-05
N. Y. +. employees FREE.
M1Y HID OPPOSITION.
Official Says They VIII Not BE
Discharged for 1t.

Areo.s md other employees OF the New York Life
Insurance Company, if they SO WISH may support
and work for the election OF the oppos'uon uoke'
without fear OF reprisals. according 10 state
meut made Yesterday to q Tribune reporter by re-
sponstbe officials Of this company.
TIE only stipulation that they did not use
The oc1npany's time, money 81 property for cleo
pioneering purposes of any nature.
Said one OF the officials:
work for the international committee. ticket in ms
ewn time II ne SO "lynes do, hsiiev eot however
.hst he viii do it, Further, you can say emphau-
s,.;an,.d fhst not single dollar Of the company :
money is being used 70 influence ponos nneo Work
commission basis and Il they wish W, on t, cht
believing that it. in the interests If business to
Go why. that is their affair u our agenot ,bat
rectors do tho thing after once houis' 'ha''
Tn The same way. if they vote for the opposition
ticket they viii not be dismissed or punlsheo'
Y. &c ,ns.rs+ooa that the company's neutral"
circular recently published. sent out in July
The Mutual LIES agency committee at us lie
ing yesterday dismissed without explanation bicoe
Hindman fits general agent at Louisville III ~
understood however that Mr.. Hindmans recent
statement TO President Peabody that ne "ouu
not support or electo 1eer for the administration
ticket was responsible for his dismissal. MT HIND
nan IS a candidate on the third ticket III Is De-
iieved generally that the dismissal or resignation
OF his brother, Thomas c. the company iHaiiasei
q. Nashville Tenn, will follow soon.
The agency committee, in a statement as 10 It's
election attitude, said that the companys bylaw
rroxidin- that NJ officer Of the company should
become trustee responsible for the dismissal
OF its managers the third ticket
The statement says that the committee has taken
no action which can be properly characterized as
coercng employees in voting otherwise than as their
free viii dictates. 1t goes on:
No money of the corporation can be properly used
in. electioneering and this committee has not au-
fhorized and viii not authorize any such use.
After condemning public attacks by subordnates
superior officers and committees. the statement
says the evowed action OF its employees must be
consistent with a proper support of the company
and wish to maintain the integrity Of its bust
1t adds:
new business successfully while he is publicly de-
claring that the companys trustees and manage
ment are unworthy Of public confidence.
Counsel for the third ticket, in commenting
this statement. asked who. If the company, was
paying the thousands Of dollars expended in CO.
ercng the agents. by kilograms. adding shat the
company's new business this year will be 70 per
cent less than that of 1905.
George r. Scrugham, the international policy
holders committees manager, exhibited yesterday
letter with half-dozen Enclosures in support of
his assertion that the New York Life not
taking neutral attitude as the election j.
Parker Cole, cashier of the New York Lfe's ST.
James branch, sent the communication woman
living in Elizabeth. N j., at a cost OF eight cents
in postage alone. The Official envelope covered
fac-simile copies Of letters from Cardinal Gibbons
explaining his withdrawal from the international
ticket and from ]. Wilbur Chapman, congratulating
Bishop McCabe Withdrawing from the commit
tee; q schedule showing the alleged low amount OF
the international committeemens policies in the
company, and so on.