Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-04-18
FLAYS LABOR UNIONS.
President Barry Says Great Peril
Confronts the Country.
Says Labor Organizations Know No
Law But Force-Th Or
ganiZatiOn of Manufacturers
the Only Remedy.

| the Only Remedy.
New Orleans, April 15.-The Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
representing hundreds of millions of
invested American capital, began at
Tulane hall Tuesday what promised
to be the most important annual con-
vention in the history of the organi-
cation. The open and avowed hos
tility of President d. NJ. Parry to-
wards the methods of organized la
Dor has attracted wide attention,
and the largely increased delegate
representation from the various man.
ufacturing states of the north was
declared by the members to be large
ly due to the interest taken by the
members in the labor question.
James w. Porch, vice president for
, Louisiana, called the convention TO
order. Mayor Paul Capdeville OF
New Orleans and Gov. w. w. Heard
addressed the delegates in hearty
| speeches of welcome, and President
Parry responded. And then the con-
vention settled itself to the serious
with the reading of the presidents
annual report.
Bitter Attack on Labor Unions.
| After calling attention to the
marked growth of the National Asso-
| citation of Manufacturers, which now
has over 2,100 members on its roll,
Mr.. Parry Immediately took up the
| Of ho no
manufacturers and organized labor
in connection with the eight-hour and
anti-conspiracy bills, which were de-
! feated at the last session of con-
| gress. He then went on to say:
"Organized labor knows but one
law, and that is the law of physical
force-the law of the Huns and Van
dals, the law of the savage. All its
! purposes are accomplished either by
actual force or by the threat of
force. 1t does not place its reliance
in reason and justice, but in strikes
| boycOtts and coercion. 1t is, in all
essential features, a mob-power,
! knowing no master except it's own
will. and is continually condeming
| or defying the constituted authori-
| ties. The stronger it grows the
greater a menace it becomes to the
| continuance of free government, in
which all the people have a voice.
| 1t is, in fact, despotism springing
into being in a midst of iberty-lov-
! ing people.
The Muscle Trust.
'Organized labor is particularly de-
mandatory of trusts, but what great
er trust is there than itself? It is
the grand trust of the times. It is
| the muscle trust. the trust of men
who make their living by manual la
Dor. 1t is to be hoped that in ac-
cordance with the Nelson amendment
to the department of commerce bill,
| the government in turning the
searchlight of publicity on the trusts.
will not forget organized labor.
| The Coal Strike.
Mr.. Parry then took up the anthra-
cite strike and the municipal contli-
ton of Chicago. He pointed out that
by the system Of joint agreement in
| force between the coal operators
and the United Mine Workers the
|
in wage scales are granted, and that
if the price of coal is to continue
to 60 up it means the indus
trial destruction of the United
States" for the high price of coal
| entering into the cost of manufac-
tured products will shut us out from
the competition with the rest of the
world
| Declares Arbitration Is a Failure.
The American Federation of Labor
was denounced as an organization
which ''breeds boycotters, picketers
and socialists and the source from
whence proceeds such noxious en-
| anations as the eight-hour and anti
conspiracy bills" The speaker de-
nounced Cancellation as a myth and
arbitration as failure, holding that
| there can be no Cancellation or arbi-
tration when a gun is pointed at
| the head of employers and they are
forced to arbitrate whether they will
or not. AS a cure for the many
| ''evils" confronting employers, Mr.
| Parry recommended organizat ton
among manufacturers and employ
ers which shall embrace the last en-
| ployer in the United States, the vari-
Gus minor organizations to be COM
bined in one grand national fedora
ton.
| Kansans Have Money in Bank.
| Topeka, Kan, April 15.-The bank
| deposits of Kansas now amount to
100000 more than any previous
highwater mark, according to the
quarterly statement of Kansas bank
ing institutions, issued by Bank Com
missioner Albaugh Tuesday. High
water mark in the states bank de-
| posts heretofore was on September