| Show m TION OF MANUFACTURERS Meeting Opens in New I Ia P Orleans Today i REPORT I s Mud Mill Sa SAps 11 la II U a to r Orleans UTho National fl Manufacturers or cf of oC Invested h ds of millions million ne s began at Tula hall hail U fran gaa ld to be bo the most roost p h sf lr A hat Bt conventions In ht the tho t thol I IQ annual organisation atlon Tho open the o 01 l or of President D M 1 towards the method ol ot TY attracted wide to h hus hua bOr bof 1 increased ed delegate rep 11 the lire he varioUs from Crom of Jr the hp n northwest i rf f it i to be largely duo S 1 gt bl the t by t the e me fibers in III into t qu H large New rn e tui ar aRlit s 1 j Sunday S r and and yesterday 11 al 3 train bearing uel I tram horn IP th middle Ie states tel seed section n z u r morning with President thi Met In hit other ir officers of the and list IV IY upon the lie arrival U II I of gathered at nt ru Tu ruis rui e tM the delegates delegate where place Mice i University r IK i is rs ball I tt V on INch vice ce Present president for Cor A tai d th the convention to or I IT fe tiara Alter of oC welcome by yr T vr l UI t i of Now Orleans k W W to which Pres O t responded the convention gt It I ParrY to the thc serious ulous business of oC oCO O wits bc with the rending leading rea i annual report I t gds Hi TIe report follows fR T y ing intention to the marked pith of the Association of oC I which now has hUK over overt oV r t Jil r a oil its roll Mr Ir Parr Parry Im Imn n t If I t t tk k h up the question of ot the he and andi ii h the manufacturers G mt cw it l i later tor in m connection with the lf ur nl mid bills I I ill h KM fre a 1 u at tt a 1 nt at the lust last session MI tl nr s to this contort contest II r ld BY Its ia u d i I a trained opposition to tho the thoI thet I rife jI of the hour and an the anti antibus t Ia i bi bus s this association per i hat to my tnY mind was a n great r 1 the full Cull significance of oC ofa i a 15 s not realized even een by b br vr r who were mere foremost Core most In III con Ir measures The mere de deiM deIl iM tug Il ot of r the Ih a two bills does not lint tell Sit br rr 11 hat was done that Waa Us I Ia m a e Important and 7 lid IU j gl gi e a on en opportune check to so sot t lit y tm It Is Impossible to la toI lat tor t I Li Le r ers rv rf i to the this fart fact that u a large tl th people forgetful of or the thet t feat j and nd s they the now enjoy t fore bi mm II i reMi reb rt h ss s ardor striving to force forc t n to what must eventually I IU U disaster If it C not anarchy I IJ J tim I ORGANIZED LABOR LADOn LABORI I chits labor laber an nn army w so 0 million strong feeling Us lis y and over aver many mam viI vie t It td had ld won Kwon concluded ln t biro S It t the time limo was ripe to make muke It engraft upon the he statute u Wi I J J f the nalon Its sprigs of oC so sor soy Ilia r ban those denials of oC In Int It il rights h It has hns heretofore 1 Hit t l to 0 enjoin by b for force c It drew rew up 0 the and null mul r i l a the lilt former of ot which n I ha tare a e beep n entitled An All not net notI neta a tU I the bill of or rights guarantee dom of or the Individual anti an antia a r hould have been termed tensed A Az l uv rib a i z strikes s and an boycotts Introduction In Congress of such l st these and the tho support they IK t 3 d there r rl rJ 1 from Crom the press and IK ra an m in m j bo be b regarded I p I as aB omin om In InT l p a tt t of or the ho trait T f I r an n organization which in late years has hus had such luch an Insidious that we i find It dominating to a t danger ous degree decree e the aw whole social po political and governmental systems of oC the tho na nil tion lion Who ho can cnn take lake note noto no to of oC the hun lIun dress of strikes of the tho last year car of oC the many nets acts of ot and nna ruthless violation of ot principles heretofore held dear by the tho American people of oC thu tho and ancl apologetic lone tono or of newspapers and imd public m illen ilium n towards those thORO also of the time all too ton prey alent abut antagonism toward capital with mt cut being Impressed with the gratify of the tho situation I If f organized or labor hud had succeeded In ht n netting getting Its two bills en an acted Into law more measures or a 1 similar character would have haw followed upon us at lit a 1 rapid rue rate nm NECESSARY It Is well tiiu II that social those is or order who der would should rev ut the thu Very Tory Inception of or their national pro gram grain meet with organized resistance and It was as fortunate fortunate that there was ae an all association lion strong enough to 10 checkmate thu tho Influence of labor this last last winter winter and that nt at a u time whon when In the full tudo tullo of It lit Its power It seemed curtain certain of ot success This fills It was a conflict and ancl a II very vel momentous one deserves to 0 go down in history hili tory as the first decisive doCent defeat of or the forces CorCes which have of ot late Into years ears had such growth crowth One e thoroughly alive to the true na an ture of this Institution of ot organized labor as liS at present conduct ed the tho people I firmly believe will place their stamp of oC disapproval upon Ullon It nail It t wilt will dwindle In power faster than th n It Jt grew Brew n a now new form of at unionism will take Its place a benefi cent the th right of the to workmen to organize within the spirit of the tho federal Cedera constitution Is not to be he disputed The employers of or this t this lis corm coun try tr have no quarrel with the men mell that work for tor them considered as ns I mil III The rime fh welfare of nt those who toll In our factories calls for Car our most earnest consideration Hut But what wo we e must pro test teat against Is HIP tho unwarrantable usurpation of or rights mind and the disaster ous industrial policy which character lies izes them In their present associated capacity I AW LAW OP OF PHYSICAL OnCE FORCE I Organized Or labor knows hut but one law lawand and that Is IH the law of physical force Corce the law pf of the Huns and anil Vandals the law of the time savage All 11 Its lis purposes ar ort are accomplished either cither by h actual force Corco or by hy the tin threat eat of ot force It does do s not Place Its reliance In reason and justice but In strikes boycotts and coercion It Is In all essential features a C mou power knowing no master mauler e Its own oval will and Is continually continua cum 11 condemning or defying time the constituted authorities The stronger stroner It grows the greater u II menace It becomes to the time continuance of oC free government t In which wh Ich all the people cople have h e a voice H It Is s In fact u II despotism springing Into being In III n thu midst of n a people In lit sorting setting itself up us as a It power hide Inde Independent pendent of or the tho power of time tilt stale it does not regard Itself OB nil bound to ob observe servo serve the fourteenth amendment of 11 the time Constitution of oC the United States which declares il that no nu nl state stale shall at nt attempt attempt tempt t to abridge the privileges or rigs rl of life liberty and property of try cry n citizen It has ha not hesitated to resort to violence vio violence 10 lence cud Unil the till destruction of oC property to compel the acceptance of ot Its demands I Its history Is s stained with blood ruin Many Jinny Man n II man non whose only fault was tint that t he lie stood upon his rights hits has been heen made madr to suffer outrage and oven even e n death nod and many an nn employer has occult ocen brought face to 10 face with financial rum ruin These wrongs cry unto heaven mud and yet et etan an public sentiment too tOu often perm permits Its them to tu go unheeded and unpunished It now demands of the th public and of Congress the tha privilege to violate the h laws forbidding violence and anti property destruction that It may continue to tu maintain Its itA power II ower through It extends Its tactics of coercion and Intimidation over ull all classes dic dictating dIctating dictating tating to the press preSH and nil 1 to the politicians clans nail 1111 strangling Independence of thought and un American manhood INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS It denies to those outside its ranks the Individual right to dispose of ot their labor as they see lieo nt fita a right that Is Isone Isone Isone one of ot the most mORt sacred and fundamental of American liberty It holds n a 1 bludgeon over oer the head hewl of the employer laying down the terms upon which he shall be permitted to do business It says fas to hint him that he must deal direct with the union that while he shall pay the men who work in hU hie hi factory they shall shull bo he beholden more mare mareto to th union than to him hUn for pos Ios positions p s that he cannot employ pi 0 or dis discharge discharge charge men without the endorsement and an consent of oC the union and that he must pay them m the wage waco mixed by th union without regard to lu their Individual tint ual worth or ur the economic ability of oC the tho employer to 10 pay U It denies defiles to the Individual ual the tho right of being his lda own judge na as to thin length of ot time he shall work and as at to how hus much nitwit he Ill shall do within the tho time iliac pre pPe prescribed scribed It takes no account of the tho varying degree of natural aptitude and 1111 powers of oC endurance displayed by hy In III Individuals in individuals and seeks to place all nil men In each pach particular trade on the tho sumo same dead level as his dally output and lick hi dally daily V wage Thus n it premium IH la placed upon apart Indolence and tency and there thero Is a restriction of hu human mutt man effort erroll reducing the aggregate pro plO production and un Increasing the tho cost cOlli of ot things produced This policy IlOilo amounts amount to not only tax upon the consumers the tho majority of whom hom do not below belong to organized labor but hUI It reduces the de der demand maul mand of oC the trade nt at home and lessens the chances of oC successful competition by our manufactures manufacturers in fore 11 mar markets markels kels hels The Tho law In will h it tt der de dt demands mands Is merely the extension to a n wider Held 11 11 of the principles It enforces in trades under Its domination POLICY OF OP INTIMIDATION It drives unwilling men Into Its ranks by tl Its Ita policy polley of Intimidation Thousands tends ands of oC Its members are such lIuch today not because they tho sympathize witH Its purposes but because they fear tear the tho consequences of not yielding to Its It tyr tr ann These men mell are arc at liS a class the tho themore themore more thrifty thrift and capable of Its mum mem members hers bars They lire are men ho secretly seef lly re rebel reo bet bel against tho the system which places them upon the level with tho the Incompetent tent anti Idle and would gladly have free conditions established that might ought provo prove their thole superior worth and thus ihus Rain gait advancement In life hut Iut they thY dare not Mot openly express their views for they the feel that their employment and peace depend upon their submissive ac oc acquiescence quiescence to the principles of tho the un tin lout ion While It seeks to compel men already employed In the tho trades to enlist under Its banner It at al the same time line seeks peek to prevent outsiders front from entering tho the trades It foists upon employers rules limiting the number of oC apprentices some Bone unions going so far for ns us to say nay there shall be no apprentices The boys bOYR from front the fern farm now come to the lime titles and fled find tho the doors of or the trades shut against them While lawyers s sand and ant men In other unorganized vocations ar lira are glad gill to touch teach young oung men their knowledge the trades unionist refuses to do du so 80 nA employers are now nol forc forced forced ed to endow technical schools in tit the hope hops of obtaining that supply of new blood for Cor their workshops which Is es cs essential to the of ot dry r rot ORGANIZED D DEFIED Organized labor Is t s nn an organization of ot manual labor trained and untrained of men who do 10 us they the nr ur are told and who depend upon the tho brains of o others for guidance That wide Held of labor In hi which mental capacity Is n a greater or less requisite on ou the part of oC the workers is not lIot represented by h it and an cannot be ue for Cor the obvious Im hn possibility of organizing brains brain The rhe rule Iulo that organized lab labs laur r seeks to establish elta Is I therefore tho the rule of the least Intelligent lull nt II t labor A cornu of oC this fuel filet explains why wh Its It leaders leader are found to 10 he be agitators and who appeal to 10 prejudice and envy who wino are nr constantly Instilling a n hatred of and ability and who whoa In Incendiary attempt to stir silt up ut men to ti to seize by hy physical force fares for that which Nash merit m cannot obtain for Cor them Composted Composed el as lit it It is of men of oC muscle rather than the men of oC Intelligence and commanded by leader leaders who are art at It heart hart disciples of revolution It la is not strange that runt organized labor stands for tor principles tint that are In dir dirt rt i conflict with the natural laws las of economic Its first ilist great principle Is III that an ar division of oC the production would bo ho better than th the division regulated by b natural law Ian provided however that thai It itcan t tIan ran Ian dictate what this title division shall shull be It U rays pays to tu capital and an to mental and unorganized labor Wo We t shall take talt this proposition of the nil products of human Industry anti and you ou may have the balance If It you do not agree to this title arrangement you OU are un ua fair fall you vou OU ar are enemies of the tue poor titter you are oppressors anti and If IC you OU do not liot peacefully submit to our terms wc we will compel you Oll to do so by b force Coree WAGE SCALES S The fixing of arbitrary wage scales by b force would woul result In no benefit benett to 0 oily any nn clas o ot of labor if all nil classes adopt Id eel 11 the Idea Iden Suppose SU peso Plse that clerks bookkeepers lawyers doctors man managers mann managers agers n business men stem and In fact all allI I outside of or pure lure manual labor I should organize and nn should my say II that j they meet t have such 1 such wages or so EO much profit or they tile would go H home borne and stay sta there It Is 1 within the th range of possibility lo that their demands might be acceded to Increased wager wage and profits would thus be decor accorded ed to every er one acol to the th theory of or organized labor end and poverty poorlY would be ht h unknown on the earth What un an mu ab ah absurd surd proposition Arbitrary enactments and all the regulating and In the time world orld can never creed create nn an atom of ot wealth Wealth Is created elat by labor capital and ability working together and there Is no other ohu way sway or of creating It There being a R limit to IM tM possible amount of wealth that c can m 1111 bo be created and the needs and desires of oC men be being beIng being ing practically unlimited there follows Coli OWl n natural conflict as to the relative proportion of this wealth going liong to each factor Cator In production When Rhen one class chase of I f men get n a digger share than they formerly former received then there ther Is l less Mi for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the remaining classes of oC men It Is s sI ridiculous I to assert then thell that a I uni universal un universal I versal application of oC tho te arbitrary wage wa scale scheme would bring brig about anything but an In nominal wages or In other words a |
