New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-28
MUTUAL REVOLT GROWS
field Manager Urites Tart
Letter of Resignation.

1919 revolt against the coercion
my :, ,bs Mutual LIES agency committees
POM 4. volume yesterday. Edward y. sul'oil'
o,,nanv's manager at SpringheId' MASS.
p'o IN a somewhat tart letter TO freslueHt
$3.50 and a discovery was reported 'i0
-, q. the general managers have orsan-
sssest the administration" AND OBTAIN
-, election of the third ticket
a, extraordinary meeting CT the agency 00i''
- hes been called for to-day, when the COM
-,,,sen1en will hold council or war 10 Cum
-1s.r v-avs and means TO suppress the revolt
"a, the climax came information that
--.stsent Peabody is writing letters personaHy
:. ,oicvholders. assuring them. inferentlaly a.
-. that he has no sympathy with the NC
,-,,rdy administration.
This would seem 20 support Johh De
.-----srs contention that he understood Geoi &c
= nsxter al his Baltimore interview WIN Dc
Rol,er EXPRESSED not only his own INiI'
U.s., views as 10 the elimination OF the
-, trustees but those Of other onlcers'
-, President Peabody. Mr.. Sutton IN ms
,..,.- bases his resignation on the ooiililI''e
-, coercion tactics and his opposltloh 10 'he
.s.c,,r6y trustees nominated on the aonlinls'a-
zion ticket -,...,- ,,,,,.a
.f,er protesting against the committees uKase
.-ss-,ne the agents 10 support the aomlnlslra-
-, rtcket and Mr.. Peabody's statement IN our
,-.s-r,evr Of the 25th." that managers must &C
.,,e,v "electioreer for the ticket DIT
Sutton says:
-, .l.ction Of those trustees who served with
NJ McCurdy, now in NOMINATION tS stnI-y,sso,
so-,e Of subordnates acting in fear or DISMISSAL
- their pOsitions would harm the company
I've IN nv opinion, than all that has gone De-
core IN their administration.
..,er EXPRESSING his belief that a manager
Is with policyholders' money TO obtain bust
zee for the company would belittle himself by
,.,ne his time 10 electioreer for trustees seek
a. -s-e,ection by such methods and declaring
81. he is unwilling TO call on his agents 10 aid
4, such work M Sutton says that pollcyholo-
avs have right 10 expect from managers and
agents unbiased judgment into the policyhold-
ers. welfare and asks:
Why should the trustees who served with Mr..
ucCurdv present the spectacle OF desperately
.--i,jng n re-elect themselves, unless there is
sore underlying motive that units them lot
their position!
.sT~,e dismissal Of three managers because OF
.,.,r ne-sonal convictions as TO the best ticket
sssned wrong" said Mr.. Sutton, who closed by
,,,bn,,ttine his resignation because his convic-
,,ons hiring him in conflict with the course of
,be administration
An announcement of the dismissal or resigna-
,ior Of I. A Hopkins the Companys Boston
manager. may follow to-day's meeting.
n Was learned in the Mutual Life Building
Yesterday that President Peabody, in letter re-
rlyS9g 10 criticisms Of McCurdy management by
Victor Montgomery. a lawyer in Santa Ana
Cal and the father of a Mutual Life policy
holder said The present management has no
more sympathy with the displaced one than you
have"
An editorial In The Chronicle" an insurance
rsper edited by n. NJ. Dawson. actuaTy TO
The Armstrong committee, urging the sup
port Of the administration tickets of both the
Mutual and New York Life caused surprise in
insurance circles yesterday. The editorial
praises the present Arrangements Of both COM
panes