The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24
TO WAGE WAR
 ON UNIQfSM --o Plans of V1Snal Manu-
 &urers. A MEETING IN NEW YORK Parry Says Employers Are
 Prepared to Fight. They Will Refuse, He Declares, te Allow Labor Agitators to Con-
 duct Their Enterprises.
 A Committee Named.
A MEETING IN NEW YORK

New York, May 23.-A meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Az. sociation of Manufacturers has been held in this city but beyond the announcement, or the selection of committees to arrange for the furtherance of the objects of the association in its fight against labor nc formal statement has been made of what was done
 It is known, however. that sub-con. mfttees representing widely diversified in- dustries were appointed to go to work systematically all over this country to unionize employers; that special steps are to be taken to engage eminent legal counsel in the several States to protect the manufacturers against boycotts, in- functions and the activity of walking del egates. while at the same time none but cordial good will was expressed for the laboring men themselves.
 Began at New Orleans.
 One result of the New Orleans conven- ton, which was furthered at this meet ing. was the systemization of the work of the special committee which is to de- wise and put into effect practical plans for bringing about the cooperation of the many State Employers Associations. Along that line this resolution was adopted:
 Resolved. That the Secretary of this Association be empowered to develop sources of information by which he shall be enabled to keep in the closest touch with all proposed legislation affecting the interests of manufacturers in the several States and that he be given discretiona rs; power to call this to the attention of erii- ployers and manufacturers in any States if the rights and interests of such em- ployers and manufacturers shall be af- fected by such proposed legislation
 This was understood to signify that the sharpest sort of watch Is to be main tained at the national Capitol st Wash ington. as we'll as at the different State Capitols.
 Membership is Increased. 4 yea. ago tiSis nss org saisasians sena- prised SIS firms; today ,he secretary an- nouncts 1t numbers 2264 employers and manufacturers. representing every State in the Union
 In addition 10 the President Mir D. M Parry of Indianapolis, those present in cluded A, B.. Farquhlr. president of the Farquhar Manufacturing Company of York. Pa; J. A. Jeffrey of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company. of Columbus, Ohio; James Inglis, of the American Blower Company. Detroit; H. S. Smith, of the Monasha Woodward Company of Wis consin; c. N. Fay. of the Fay-Sholes Company of Chicago; J. w. Van Cleave of the Buck Stove and Range Company of St. Louis, and H. s, Chamberlain of 
 Besides these firms. the Executive Com mittee at large as represented through these concerns among others: The United States Glass Company of Pittsburg, by Daniel c. Ripley; the Fay and Eagan Company of Cincinnati, by Col. Thomas Pagan; The Nunemachor Company of Louisville, by F. N. Nune- and the Tompkins Manufacturing Company of Charlotte, N. C.. by Daniel A. Tompkins.
 President Parry Talks.
 Mir D. M. Parry. President of the As sociation, after the meeting adjourned. saidss
 Neither the labor agitators, the pro- letariats. the 'ecclesiasts.' those who are seeking to arrange arbitration meeting, nor the press have any Idea of the tre- mendous movement that is under way among all classes of employers all over this country. Without -egard to politics, religions or petty rivallies, the men who have their money and their interests cen tered in manufactures of every descrip- ton have reached the conclusion that they must act as a unit in a great na- tional movement insuring them the con trol of their own capital. they have granted shorter hours and cheerfully higher wages. but they will not yield the right to decide how they are to conduct their own business"