Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-20 | Page 4 | Labor is Accused by Foundry Head of "Defying Law"

LABOR IS ACCUSED BY FOUNDRY HEAD OF "DEFYING LAW" NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Organized labor was accused of preferring to "defy the law and attempting to control forces whose duty it is to uphold it," by William Wil-liam H. Barr of Buffalo today in the annual convention of the National Founders Foun-ders association, of which he is president. presi-dent. ' "The unfortunate seed." he said, "was sown in unionism in 1916 when the railroad rail-road brotherhoods exercised their power to force through the Adamson law. The inevitable result was the development of a - spirit of arrogance among all unions. "Our entrance into the war represented the fruition of this seed of radicalism and the unions which had pledged their membership to patriotic cooperation with our armies m Europe immediately utilized util-ized the situation to promote their own Interests. For every American soldier in Europe during the war there was a union striker In the United States." Mr. Barr criticised the closed shop, saying that in foundries the limitation of output cut the earnings of the owner to a minimum and made It difficult to finance improvement. "Conditions in most open foundries are all that humanitarians could rightfully expect." he added. Manufacturers should endeavor to have the compensation of teachers and clergymen clergy-men increased, he said, in order to in- i culcate Americanism and overcome radicalism.