The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-01
AGAINST UNIONS.
President Barry, Of Manufacturers
Association, Makes Attack on
Labor Organization.
DECLARES IT KNOWS NO LAW BUT FORCE
Carroll ID. Wright, Labor Commits
sioner, Addresses the Association,
and Snys Labor and Capital Must
Get on Together Resolutions
Adopted by the Manufacturers.

and Says Labor and Cnpital Must
Get on Together Resolutions
Adopted by the manufacturers.
New Orleans, April Is. The Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
representing hundreds of millions of
invested American capital, began at
Tulane hallyesterday. President Parry
read his annual address in which he
took up the question of the battle be.
tween the manufacturers and organ
lied labor in connection with the eight
hour and anti-conspiracy bills, which
were defeated at the last, session of the
congress, n said:
""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 W
will. and is continually condeming
or defying the constituted author:~
ties. The stronger it grows the
greater a menac it becomes to the
continuance of free government, in
which all the people have a voice.
1t is. in fact, a despotism springing
into being in a midst of liberty-loy-
ing people.
Declares Arbitration Ia n Failure.
The American Federation of Labor
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 a failure, holding that
there can be no Cancellation or arbi-
tration when a gun is pointed ut
the head of employers, and they are
forced to arbitrate whether they will
not. AS a cure for the many
evils" confronting employers, Mi.
recommended organization
among manufacturers and employ
ers which shall embrace the last EN-
in the United States, the vari-
Gus minor organizations to be com
bined in one grand national fedora
ton.
Carroll Wright Speaks.
New Orleans. April ]6.-At the morn
ing session yesterday arrollD. Wright.
commissioner of labor, was introduced
and was given a hearty reception.
ROOSEVELT had been invited TO
the convention, and in declining
named Mr.. Wright to represent him.
capital and labor Mr.. Wright said:
Some of the methods of the labor
union are to be condemned. So are
of the methods Of the capitalistic
organizations to be condemned, but be-
cause they cannot get on together does
aot mean that either or both should be
destroyed. They must get on together,
is the necessity Of the time, and it !
S to the intelligence of the leaders of |
10Th interests that society at large
for the development of industry
- " oISAS VI SoNloIH III OSICSS. l
The great question for employers
nd employees is, will they, in the con
|uct OF their mutual affairs, excite the
Militant spirit, or invoke that peace
I'll consideration which leads to the
doption of the highest elements of
business interests"
Resolutions Adonted.
At noon the resolutions committee
nnounced its report and it was adopt
d as follows:
we, the members of the National
,ssociation of Manufacturers. United
tates of America, in convention as
embed at New Orleans. do hereby de-
are the following principles which
hall govern this association in it's
DIRK in connection with problems of
lbor:
!. Fair dealing is the fundamental
nd basic principle On which relations
etween employees and employers
Mould rest.
:. The National Association of Manu-
cturers is not opposed to organiza-
ons OF labor as such, but it is uE-
terably opposed to boycotts, black
SIS and other illegal acts of interior
ice with the personal liberty of en-
oyer and employe.
). No person should be refused en-
oyment or in any way Disseminated
on account of membership or
on-membershipin any labor organiza-
on. and there should be no discrim-
alton against OF interference with
~ employe who is not a member of
b organization by members of
'ch organizations.
4. With due regard to contracts. it
the right of the employe to leave his
nploynent whenever he sees fit. and 8
is the right Of employer to discharge i
~ employe when he sees fit.
s. Employers must be free to employ
cir work people at wages mutually
tisfactory. without interference or
citation on the part of the individuals
organizations not directly parties
such contracts.
Employers must be unmolested
% unhampered III the management of !.
business and in the use of any J
or systems of pay which are :