Arizona republican., 1916-07-25
Prudential Agents Qmd
 Collectors Go OM Strike
[RepubIican A. p. Leased wire1

NEW YORK, July 24.-Agents and collectors employed by the Prudential Insurance Company were called out on strike today by a union recently organized among them and known as the International Insurance Agents ! Protective association, with a mem beiship of 6,000 Although claims of the company and the union Were conflicting, it appeared tonight that at least 300 men in this dirtrict have responded to the strike call thus ! far
 | The men demand better pay, rec osnition of the union and more 1 reasonable working hours Tele- grams from branches of the union in different notes in the territory east I of Chicago. leaders here declared, in- dicate that unless the demaHd Of The men are met ali the 6,O0J will i follow the lead of those already out. l About 13,000 agents and collectors are employed by the company 1 throughout the country.
 The lack of sufficient collectors to
 see that premiums are turned in at | tine proper time, the strikers assert, l VIII result in the cancellttion of ] thousands of policies. The company. anticipating the strike, has announced i tn t arrangements are being made
 to protect policy holders and to have the strikers replaced by experienced
 men. The com pany announced that
 none of the men who walked out
 would be reinstated under any cir | cumstances.
 The strike followed the company's dismissal of thirty or forty employed who had formed the protective as- sociation and the refusal of the com nN tod
 tiyes.
 Company Makes Statement NEWARK, N. J., July 24-The Pru-
 dential Insurance Company issued tn, following statement here tonight re.
 gardinS the strike of it's agents
 Agents who have been or becom, idisloyal to the company or it's policy
 holders will be promptly dismissed
 Having been discontinued for the goot
 of the service, they will not be re , employed. About fifty or sixty nel have been notified of the terminal tioI of their services.
 Among 13,0O0 or II, 900 field em ployes, few agitators in New Yorl
 and vicinity and in Philadelphia hay, sought with little success. to creat,
 oisaffection. There is absolutely n, gIound for complain Average earn inSs have increased over 90 per cen
 In live years and are now greate than ever before in the history of tn
 company. They average between 8 [ and S24 per week throughout the field The intere sts of the policyholder 2 lave been fully safeguarded in tn g prCgent disturbances. The work O p the men dismissed will be assigned a . once to others, and no difficulty vii result. The company proposes | conduct its business in such q manne 9 as to give the maximum of benefit t . it's policyholders at the minimum. T s do this it requires and will insis 9 upon competent service in return fO
 liberal compensation.
 All employees also receive annua Ivacations with pay disability allow
 ance when sick, retirement allowance
 when old, and free insurance for thei :. families" f Assemblyman George Carroll of Jer : sey City who has interested himsel [. in the cause of the strikers, declare f tonight he would make every effort t r have a congressional investigation c
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