The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-06

ployer to hold out as long as he can and
then we say Wen hold out for him and send
him certified check. IL it's necessary. No
esnpt4se eio who has been member of our
which demands were made which the assoc
cation decided were unjust and the effect
has been felt in every branch of business.
Where the unions have their blacklists
We have our fair list. IL a boycott is at
tempted in a strike we put the name OF the
concern boycotted on our fair list. and that
means that we will get that place all the
business We can. Our tactics in the laundry
strike revealed what we could do and. in
several disputes that have come up since
the international officers. when called In,
nave advised the unions to go slow and not
10 strike once they. found the Employers
Association would be involved The latest
20 oner their assistance to US are the banks.
Several have become members. not for the
reason that they fear strikes among their
clerks, but because they have come 10 see
That IN the Employers Association there In
some security against the reckless indus
trial warfare that has been going on be-
tween employer and emp!oye. This the
banks have been among the first to feel
NOT FIGHTING LABOR.
When the labor leaders do not have their
own way they call it war. Just now they
are declaring that we are making war on
unions because We have seen fit 10 pre-
scribe certain principles which employers
shall never give up at the demand OF unions.
We are not fighting labor. We are lighting
simply against unjust assaults of labor
upon capital.
The labor leaders have not taken TO II
kindly. They have had me followed by de-
tectives and they've made all sorts OF
threats in Chicago as TO what was going
TO happen. Whenever / have caught a man
shadowtng me I've hired man 10 shadow
that man. That's all that was necessary.
The men who make those threats are the
bully element in union and they are the
biggest edwards earth Ia
stimulated employers to prosecute every
case of violence and have convinced the
labor leaders that are going TO see the
law enforced IL We have to go to the high
est court to put a violator OF ii in prison,
the labor DULLES out there have become
very quiet.
1.-The plan we have worked out is a nat
ural development of the modern economic
situation. 1t is the only salvation for en-
ployers from unjust labor wars. Unless
such association includes employers OF
every branch of business il must fail. One
union is helped by another union and one
class OF employers must be helped by an
other if we are to have industrial peace.
1.-THE organizations patterned after ours
which have been started in such places as
Alton and Freeport, ILL.,, have met with the
same success. In Alton. where unions have
run the town, an attempt was made, for in
stance, to boycott the widow of black
smith because she brought her nephews
from the country to shoe horses. They
didn't belong to the union. An employers
association was started, her place was put
on the fair list and il wasn't long before
she had more business than she could at
tend TO and the unions were beaten in their
attempt to ruin her business. Similar move
ments are now under way in st. Louis and
in several other big cities, all OF which
| have been watching our experiment In Chi
cago.
I'm time this plan can be extended over
the country. Then the two sides in a labor
dispute can meet on equal terms. When
that happens this country will have seen
| the last of strike fevers and labor grafters
such as has been revealed here in New
York. A just strike will succeed, for we do
not say there shall be no strikes. Our asso-
citation does say that the domination and
control of a mans business by a union
shall cease and that strikes started with
| that purpose In view shall not succeed.
| When all employers in a place have be-
come united in such an organization the
day OF the walking delegate. the grating
| labor leader and the 'strong-arm union
| bully will have passed, and an era Of peace
| will set in for employers and employed
| alike, and with gain to both Sides"