Connecticut western news., 1917-03-15
MANUFACTURERS INSURE MEN BY
 THE THOUSANDS
Some Policies Provide For Pay m0nt of Old Age Pensions.
GROUP PLAN FAVORED
Part of General Campaign For indus trial Betterment - Some Concerns Adopt Plan to Give Their Employees Share In Prosperity.

Adopt Plan to Give Their Employees
 Share In Prosperity.
 A striking evidence of the willingness on the part of manufacturers as class to do something material for the bene- it of their employees is to be found in the growing popularity of the group in- surance plan. Industrial concerns all over the country are lnsuring their workers against death, sickness, acci- dent and old age under the group sys- tenn, and insurance companies are gar nering in millions Of dollars in pre- miums.
 This new manifestation Of the em- ployer's concern for the members of his industrial family may not be found ed entirely on altruism. If 1t were it would probably revolt the self respect Ing worker. It is better than that how. ever; 1t is indisputable proof of the em- ployers willingness to go more than half the necessary distance to meet his employees on the common ground of mutual helpfulness, and thus help to wipe out any misunderstandings that AuJ hoNS SAAol0d pclWttu
 The group plan has had a remarkable growth since It's inauguration about i've years ago and has recommended It. self not only to industrial concerns but to banking and mercantile establish ments in all pats of the country. Many of these establishments adopted 1t in- stead of giving a bonus at Christmas time; others gave both bonuses and fin. surance.
 Policies Total Millions.
 During a few weeks before Christ mas the Travellers Insurance Com. pany wrote group insurance policies aggregating $60o0,ooo. Both the Trav- eler's and the Equitable Life Assur. ance Society did a larger business in group insurance during the year 1916 because of the willingness of manufac- turing and other concerns to grant their employees a share in their pros perity. Among the manufacturing concerns insured within the past few months by the Travellers are:
 Bullard Machine Tool Company Bridgeport, Conn.-$500 and upward: 750 risks: about S50o,000.
 Raybestos Company. Bridgeport, Conn.-$500 and upward; about 300 employees. totallng S2o0.0oo of insur. ance.
 James s. Fuller, Inc, Kingston, N r.. shirt manufacturers.-T according to length of service; 150 risks for about S100,000.
 Benton Harbor Malleable Foundry Co.,. Benton Harbor. Mich.-Insurances on unmarried men, $500; married men. $l.o00: total insurance of $4000o0 on 450 risks
 Buffalo Gasoline Motor Company. Buffalo. N. Y.-10s risks for $1160oO
 F. l.. Byers X Brothers, pump manu. lecturers. Ashland. O.-According to length of service; 65o risks for $325. GOO
 Faultless Rubber Company. Ashland, O.-According to length of service; 40 risks for S220.000.
 Sperry Gyroscope Company. Brook Iyn. N. Y.-Each man insured for one years salary; 75o risks for S7000o0.
 Kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Com. pany, Battle Creek. Mich.-According to service; 400 risks for $250,000.
 l.. Earth & Son. hotel fixtures. New York City.-1o0 risks for $1oo.oo0.
 Neptune Meter Company. water meters. New York City.-According to salary; 400 risks for $300,000.
 Michigan Lubricator Company. De troit. AIich.-275 risks for $15o.000.
 Adams & Westlake Company. Chi. cago, nl.-According to service; 450 risks for S25o.000
 Frank L. Hall Company. Buffalo, N Y.-According to service;. 100 risks for S75O00
 Many Other Policies Written.
 Among many other industrial con. cerns the Equitable insured the fol. lowing:
 William Nj. Crane x Co. New York. From $500 to $3.0o0. covering ap. 1000 employed.
 Favorita silk Company. Paterson. N. J.-Iife insurance to all employees in amounts ranging from $500 to Sl,000.
 Garner Print Works and Bleachery.- Life insurance aggregating over $1,000.. 900. covering thousands of employees at the plants at Garnerville and wap pinger Falls. N. Y.
 Sohmer x Company. Piano Manufac. insurance of $500 for each employee.
 Other manufacturers who have adopt. ed the group system of insurance for their employees are Montgomery Ward & Company of Chicago and Kansas City; the E. r. Goodrich Company. Akron. Ohio: the Standard Cloth Com. pany of New York; Robert Gair Com. pany of Brooklyn: the Studebaker Cor. poratiun of Detroit and South Bend: Roos Brothers of san Francisco: the UniGn Oil Company of California and the simmons Company of l<enosha. Wis