Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-07-30
THE CONsERvATORs LEAGUE.
Organization of Business Men-A Weap.
on with which to Fight the knigh hts of
Labor.

CHICAGO, July 20.
The Conservstors league of Chicago held
meeting last night for the purpose of discuss
ing the object and aims of the organization.
Judge Mark Bangs, it stating the character
of the league, said that the recent ss.called
labor tr ubles, which had been so disastrous
and which threatened business still further,
had arisen from a vital Misrepresentation of
the true relation sustained by all classes to the
business interests OF the country. and had
greatly aggravated rather than relieved the
evils complained of. TO courteract these
injurious results, and to protect these all i'm
portsnt business interests, and thus promote
the highest good of the country, The Con-
servators League of America" had been
organized under charter of incorporation
from the State of Illinois.
The purpose of this league is TO unite in
one organization all men who believe in the
supremacy of law, and are willing to join in
putting forth real moral force to uphold the
law and conserve alike the right of the en-
ployer and employed; to protect business
from disorders and from all unlawful inter
ference; to promote better understanding
of the true relation of employer and en-
ployed; to maintain the rights of each and
adjust their differences.
In referring to the power of the Knights OF
Labor and similar organizations, Judge
Bangs sali 1t would be the duty Of the league
to watch and guard against any attempt by
them TO capture the ballot box and control
legislation; to stand between and antagonize
the utopean schemes of any ciass who seek to
overthrow the present order OF things; and
to say to the members of such organizations,
thus far shalt thou go and no farther"
Mr.. w. ii. Vanornum read a paper in ad-
vocacy of the league. The labor organizations
the paper went on to say, had reached point
where they dictated to firms and individual
employees what wages should be paid, the
hours of work, number of employees and kind
OF work to be done, and now they announce
that they propose to secure the use of the
ballot for certain legislation, all of which
would take away the last remaining safe
guards OF business men and destroy the COM
merclal interests of the country Ii all tent
ed toward anarchy and the overthrow of the
present order of social and political liberty,
enjoyed by the people at large. To meet
these schemes the business man has no organ
izatlon and has in fact overlooked the signs
of the times. To supply this deficiency and
FURNISH means to combat the new and danger
Gus enemy Of the business world, the Con.
servators league had been formed. Its coun-
ellis had already reached into tour western
States and there was little doubt but that il
was destined to be the largest and strongest
OF any exclusively secular organization in
the world
Business men present at the meeting ex-
pressed themselves in favor of the league
The league was organized April "a, by the
formation of supreme council. Subsidiary
councils are being formed under the control
and advice of the supreme council, Chicago
council No. having now several hundred
members. The proceedings Of the councils
are to be secret.