Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-30
FACETOFACEWITHL LABOR
AN OPEN MEETING OF THE CON
SENATORS LEAGUE.

Further Injury to the Business Interests
of the Country by TOilers aud Anar-
chists to be Prevented-LabOr's At
tempt to Control Politics Also to be
Met with Determined Opposition.
CHICAGO, July 29.-The Chicago Coun-
Gil No. l of the Conservauors League Of
America held an open meeting last night
for the purpose OF discussing the object
and aims OF the organization. Judge
Mark Bangs in stating the character OF
the league said that the recent sO-called
labor trouble that had been and is threat
ening still further to paralyze business
had arisen from vital misrepresentation
of the true relations sustained by all
classes to the business interests of the
| country, and greatly aggravated rather
than relieved the evils complained of.
OBJECT OF THE LEAGUE.
To counteract these injurious results
and to protect these all important bust
ness interests and thus promote the
highest good Of the country, the "Con-
SENATORS League of America" has been
organized under charter OF incOrpora-
| ton from the State of Illinois, the pur-
pose of which is to unite in one organiZa-
zion all men who believe in the supremacy
! Of the law and are willing TO join
in putting in motion great moral force to
uphold the law and conserve alike the
rights Of employer and employed; to pro-
tect business from disorders and from all
unlawful interference, and to promote a
! better understanding Of the true relation
of employer ana employees, maintaining
the rights of each and adjusting their
differences.
LABOR IN POLITICS,
Referring to the power of the knights
of Labor and similar organizations, he
said it would be the duty of the league TO
watch and guard against any attempt by
them to capture the ballot box and con-
troll legislation; to stand between and an
tagOnize European schemers of the class
who seek to overthrow the present order
of things, and say to the mem bers of such
| organizations: Thus TAR shalt thou 60,
and no further"
W. II. Vanornum read a paper advo.
eating the formation of the league.
POWER OF LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.
Labor organizations had reached the
| point where they dictated to firms and in
! diVidual employers what wages should
| be paid, the hours of work, the number of
| employees and the kind OF work to be done,
and now boldly announce that they pro-
| pose to secure by the use of the ballot GER
| tain Legislation winch would take away
| the last remaining safeguards of business
men and destroy the commercial interests
of the country. 1t all tended towards
anarchy and the overthrow OF the present
order of social and political liberty enjoy
ed by the people at large. To meet these
| schemes the business man has no organi-
cation and has in fact overlooked the
| signs of the times.
| THE LEAGUE THEIR CHAMPION.
| To supply this deficiency and furnish
means to combat the new and dangerous
enemy of the business world the Con-
SENATORS League had been formed, etc.,
councils had already reached into four
| Western States, and there was
| little doubt that 1t was des-
tined to be the largest and strongest
of any exclusively secular organization
in the world. The business men present
expressed themselves in favor of the
league. The league was organized April
"A, 1886, by the formation OF a supreme
council. Subsidiary councils are being
formed under the control and advice OF
the supreme council, Chicago Council
No. having now several hundred mem.
bers. The proceedings OF the councils
are to be secret.