Show STRIKE SURETY COMPANY SUIT ROUSES LABOR Action to Have Firm Declared Declared De De- De- De dared Bankrupt Believed to Have Vital Bearing on Open Shop Struggle DALTI BALTIMORE Md Sept 14 A H.-A A suit that probably will have a vital bearIng bearing bearon bear- bear Ing on tho the nationwide battle b between capital capitti l and labor over the open shop Is under way in courts here I Involved ed is tlc the question as M to toI I whether strike Insurance companies are aro legal Insurance concern concern con con- cern cerns s. s Efforts of or Thomas J J. Keating Maryland Maryland Mary Mary- land Insurance commissioner to have tho Employers Employers' Mutual Insurance and andI Service company a n strike insurance I concern declared bankrupt were temporarily tem tern held up today b by Judge I I James J J. Dobler In the th county court A preliminary hearing was postponed d I until t tomorrow POLICIES POPULAR According to charges filed by Keating Keat Keat- ing half hat of ot the probable claims against the company an total 17 while 1 Its assets are arc only The reason reMon for tor this apparently is that strike insurance was too p popular pular am among ng certain employers After Arter lakInE taking taking tak tak- ing InE out a policy the they cared little if men went on a n. strike Plants were closed and big claims filed with the Insurance company compan In many instances strike Insurance was used by employers ers to o force em em- to accept th thOl f open shop It Is b labor lea leaders ers Plants were ere closed nd id Insurance nc claim piled d up until th m nf ogre agree tp tp- abandon the closed It lt t i Is sai said Although the tho state state insurance insurance commIssIon commission com corn mission refused to o the new nW plan thc the company compan company attacked attacked by tho the Maryland land comm s goners wrote In policies In industries of ot forty states state Employer policyholders who chuckled while shie men were striking have rushed here to fight the bankruptcy bankruptcy bank bank- pr proceed proceedings ings white while organized labor has turned Its Us attention to the tho cas case e. e I |