Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1912 — WOODMEN WILL NOT PAY HIGHER RATE [ARTICLE]

WOODMEN WILL NOT PAY HIGHER RATE

Court Grants Perpetual Injunction Against Putting Higher Rates into Effect —Local Lodge Affected. 3 " a .. “ The new insurance policies which have just been issued by the Modern Woodmen lodge providing for a higher rate will be returned to the head camp and the old and lower rates will-pre-vail. At Springfield, 111., Friday Judge Robert Shirley granted a perpetual injunction restraining the head camp from putting the rates into effect and also restraining the officers from declaring delinquent any member refusing to pay the new rates. The injunction is effective everywhere, as Illinois is the home of the organizaJudge Shirley held the new rates to be burdensome and unnecessary. The petition for *an injunction was filed by four members, P. E. Tainter, James Al. Brown, James H. Wallace and Frank J. Koch, all of this city, last August. The new and higher rates were* adopted by the head camp of the Modern Woodmen at a meeting held in Chicago in January last and were to have become effective January first of next year. The step was taken without a vote of the members of the organization and raised a storm of protest among the members in the various states. The head eamp declared the higher rates necessary to the existence of the order. If the rates are eventually made higher it will have to be by a vote of all the members.