The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-17
Crush the Ubiquitous Agita-
tor, He Says.
HAS NOT EXAGGERATED EVILS
SITUATION WORSE THAN HE HAS
PAINTED 1T, HE DECLARES.
Have Reached Limit of
fdent Thinks-LocaI Discussion.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK, May 15.-David NJ. Parry.
president of the National Association OF
Manufacturers, who is in the city in con-
nection with affairs of the association, was
asked to-day for his opinion in respect to
the movement now under Roadway for the
organization Of the employers in the build
ing trades throughout the country. He
said:
This Is a most excellent movement. 1t
shows that the employers have reached the
end Of their patience. and. rather than put
UP with conditions that all fair minded
people must grant are insufferable, they
are now ready to take such measures for
their common defense as events may prove
advisable. / take Ii that the employers in
the building trades have no more desire to
Cypress their employees than employers In
other lines. But the time has come with
them apparently when for self-preservation
they must grasp the hands of their COM
petitors and in this union find the strength
to cope with the ubiquitous agitator who is
leading the workmen Of the country in
mad crusade that il not stopped will spell
ruin for us ALL
IT have been advertised all over the
country as man of Incorporate language.
I wonder what the editors and the poll
ticians who truckle to the socialistic labor
heroes will say when they devour the state
ment given out for publication by the meet
ing of 700 builders in this city yesterday?
II they called my language Incorporate
rant ETC., what will they call the language
of this statement? In IL these men dared
to point out the failure of justice In the
past to punish violence, the damage to
property and the murders committed In the
name of labor which have gone unpun-
ished.' They have gone so far as TO ask
that political ambition be not permitted to
pervert justice. The district attorney, I
read, was called upon to use the machinery
severity the blackmailers which this per-
nicious system has fostered and thus to
show to the men how they are miserpre-
sented and betrayed Then again: THE
employers are expected by the public to
take the initiative and to use every lawful
method to destroy the Goliah, whom lack
of opposition has so emboldened that he
throttles this great city without hesitation
and without conjunction.
Have / ever pictured the situation any
worse than 1t is here pictured? Some sit
uations demand vigorous language. The
time comes when men must speak out, and
on such occasions there ought to be no
doubt as to their meaning. The employers
of this city have a condition, not a theory,
confronting them; and perhaps the time is
coming when the newspapers and the poll
ticians will wake up TO the fact that a
similar condition confronts in greater or
less degree the entire country. The en-
ployers are beginning to organize, and as
their work of organization progresses so
will also their power to impress upon the
people that they really have a side to this
great question and that this side must be
given earnest and thoughtful considera-
tfon"