The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26

association will be the greatest body of the
council. 1t will be the purpose both to pro-
mote favorable Industrial laws and to OPP
pose the unjust demands of organized labor
in State and national legislative bodies,
first through legislative committees. If a
harmful bill is reported favorably in COM
mittee the council will issue "whips" to en-
ployers over the State or Nation, urging
their influence with their representatives
in the State body or Congress to defeat
the adverse legislation. In this way the as
ISOLATION hopes to free capital from the die
tation of organized labor and to pledge
capital to policy which shall be uniformly
beneficial and which shall be uniformly adj
hered to. 1t hopes, among other things, to
be able TO guarantee common line of &C
ton in case of disagreement. Some en-
ployers have reaped much profit by yielding
to the demands Of labor during a strike,
when their competitors, refusing to surren-
der, were unable to do business for long
time It hopes also to accumulate fund
for the general defense, one of the greatest
drawbacks to effective opposition In the
past being the unavailability of funds, not
withstanding the wealth of the capitalist
class. The same process that has increased
the earning capacity of consolidated capital
will then increase the economic and social
welfare to be derived from organized CAPT.
tai.
Besides promoting trade and favorable
legislation in a general way, the associa-
ton of manufacturers has thousands of
correspondents throughout the world who
furnish 1t with specific reports about for
eign markets. 1t publishes trade index
in several languages, giving the names Of
its members and their manufactures. which
it supplies free to members and to foreign
of names of possible customers In foreign
countries, the following being a sample
from a bulletin of seventy names:
Louis Paris, rue des Petits Hotels,
Paris, France, writes to the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers that he is going to
establish himself as agent in Paris and
would like to represent manufacturers of
the following articles: Generators, motors,
alternators. transformers. measuring ap-
paratus, electric apparatus in general. This
gentleman states that at present he Is man.
ager-engineer for France of the Compagnie
de rIndustrie Electrique, of Geneva, Switz-
erland, and that such he has travelled all
other France during the last two years and
has best connections with the customers in
the technical lines in that country. Prices
should be quoted delivered in France. Cor
respondence in French"
The association translates in its informa-
ton bureau foreign correspondence from
any language into any language; 1t fur
nishes special foreign credit reports, COL
lects foreign accounts and lends its aid to
the amicable adjustment of disputes with
foreign customers; it handles through its
international freight bureau export ship
ments for it's members and their foreign
buyers at the lowest possible cost, being
able through the amount attended to to get
special rates in freight charges. transfer
fees and insurance premiums. besides more
efficient service; and ii publishes a paper
which is carrying on the propaganda for
effective organization of capital and a war
against the injustice of labor.
So the association has much important
work to do in its several departments. But
whatever it may do in these lines, 1t is
doubtful If 1t accomplishes anything Of
greater Industrial or social Importance than
the balancing of the power of labor with
the power of capital, whether it accomplish
this through a new organization or as the
National Association Of Manufacturers
WILLIAM ALLEN WOOD.