The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-12-05
BILLION. J. AND. 4 HALF
TO FIGHT: union LABOR
MR.. PARRY INJECTS MORE WATER
INTO THE STOCK,
Trying to Pattern After tho Steel Trust
A Pin May Burst the Bubble Some
Day.-Intemperate Tone of Bosses
Representatives Indicate that Bit
ter War Will BE Waged Against
Organized Labor.

Indianapolis, Dec. 3rd.-One billion
five hundred million dollars! That, ac-
cording to Mr.. Parry, of the Manufac-
turers' Association, is the financial
backing Of a new organization which
he intends to form to fight trade union
ism: There is nothing small about these
figures and they show that Mr.. Parry
has .dawning appreciation of the mag
nitude of the task he contemplates The
sum is a large one, but, as Mr.. Parry
will find out, it is not near large enough
to accomplish what is intended
Trade unionism is built on a rock, and
the world, the flesh and Mr.. Parry
can not prevail against it.
According to press dispatches from
Chicago early last month, the presi.
dent Of the Manufacturers Associa-
ton, Mr.. DuBrul of the National
Metal Trades Association and several
other walking delegates from differ
ent employers organizations, held a
pow WOW in the Auditorium Annex,
the object Of which was to destroy
trade unionism for keeps. From the
intemperate tone of some of the re-
marks of these gentlemen they were
evidently suffering from peculiar
form Of excitement not altogether un,
known to bucolic visitors who visit
Chicago. When they came to their
ideas were undoubtedly modified to
great extent: Before their pipes went
out, however, their intentions toward
trade unionisn outparryed Parry.
Pot-valiance is not the exclusive prop
erty of any one class of the community
particularly the working class. Dutch
courange is not always confined to
Holland.
The pow WOW was presided over by
one Frederick w. Job, who is hired
man and walking delegate of the
Chicago Employers Association. It
was this Mr.. Job who some little time
ago compiled statistics which proved
that the cost of living had only ad-
vanced fifteen per cent, and argued
therefrom that it was folly to think Of
advancing workmen's wages beyond
that point. In other words, Mr.. Job
believes in keeping wages at the; lowest
point, that@will keep body an d soul to-,
=get1ler-a et1lel Il bare ssu bsiste tepee:z N Jo&sS
sprpspsrit{yHa tie s1,ars siI6s
enceapoint* 80 osthat pheil of
business Or sickness comes their agony
won't be protracted by anything they
may have saved during the period Of
prosperity. Let them starve at once
is his theory. Humane man is Mr..
Job.
Either at the pow WOW or after it,
occasion was taken to denounce the
civic Federation and it's policy of con-
clllatlon and arbitration, and the an
nouncement was made that the new
organization would meet at the same
time as the Civic Federation, with a.
view~to checkmate anything done by
that body that would bring capital and
labor to closer degree of friend
llness. 1t is safe to predict that the
ninety-nine per cent of sane employ
ers in these United States will have
nothing to do with the medieval pro-
posals of the Parry, DuBrul and Job
type. If the old lady who tried to
sweep the sea back had lost her temper
at the persistency of the incoming tide
and swatted it with her broom, she
would not present such a ludicrous
sight as do these men, and their, at
tempts to stamp out trade unionism.
Their next meeting and their routing
of the Civic Federati will be awaited
with interest -Machinists Journal.
Parry and his association of labor
union crushers have had another dream
and they came to the conclusion that
the world is theirs and the fullness
thereof.
1t would be a good idea if the Man.
ufacturers' Association would apply to
the courts and have a commission ap,
pointed to inquire into the mental con-
ditions of it's president, aand thereby
have the poor telegraph operators a
small amount of work in transmitting
the larger amount of nonsense eminat-
ing from the puffed-up individual.