Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-13
ATTACKED BY PARRY
LABOR UNIONS DENOUNCED AS
ORGANIZED MOBS.
Savage Attack Of the President Of the
National Association Of
Manufacturers.

CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y, August I'D. M.
Parry, president of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, today delivered an
address before the conference on '"The Mob
Spirit in America"
Mr. Parry took as his text Mob Spirit
in Organized Labor" He said in part:
In this country in the last year there
have been many mobs of different kinds,
but to my mind the most dangerous of
them all is the mob of organized labor. No
man, l take it, can object to any kind of
an association, labor or otherwise, which is
organized for lawful and benefcent pur-
poses, but organized labor, as it is con-
Quoted today. stands convicted by its own
leaders as lawless Organizat ton.
I'm that it seeks by physical force to
override individual rights and Its continu-
ally railing against the laws and denounc-
ing courts and public officials for enforc
ing these laws it fulfillst all the require
ments of the definition of mobocracy. I'm
like the lynching bees and the vigilance
committees, it is what might be termed
standing mob, under fair discipline by it's
officers, and ready upon occasion to COM
NIT the overt acts of outrage and destruc-
ton which are the outward manifestation
of the mob spirit. 1t declares in effect that
it's will Is superior to customs, traditions,
government regulat ations and even the Con-
stitution OF the country 1t asserts that
the individual has no inherent rights that
cannot be taken from him, and that there
fore, 1t has the right to say that no man
shall work and that no industry shall run
without it's consent.
In its attempt to compel recognition
OF its PretentionS to sovereignty 1t relies
not on reason, but upon coercion. intimida-
tfon and the bludgeOn. In Its continual
preachments against law and its constant
appeal to the baSer passions of men 1t Is
doing more than any other agency to in
culcate the mob spirit and to encourage the
unfurling of the red flag of anarchy.
The president of the Chicago Federation
of Labor recently declared in an inter
view: The President deals a death blow to
organized labor when he declares that he
cannot discriminate in it's favor. 1t sounds
fair on the face of it, but wfthout dscrim-
ination we are just where we started. What
we have been fighting for is unieQ labor to
the exclusion of all other.
'TheSe are the words OF a conservative
among union leaders, and they voice the
sentiment of the agtatOrS the country over.
To their mind If you deny the right Of
their organizations to commit Illegal acts,
you are attempting to crush It,. If organ
lied labor has only lawless purposes it
ought to be crushed.
During the last year the attempts to
force men to. give allegiance to strike
bosses in their plans to set up an oligarchy
that will control industry independent of
the laws of the country have resulted In
mob conditions in many Of the leading CEN
ters. Supremacy of law and order has sus-
tained not only many severe shocks, but
the nation has also lost millions of dollars
by the organized idlenesssof thousands of
men. This loss must fail heavier upon the
man who depends upon his daily wage than
upon those who have someth!ng to fall
back upon. 1t is time that the werkmen
of this country were learning that for the
millions of dollars they pay tn salaries to
the agtators they are receiving in return
nothing but ceaseless trouble, enforced
idleness and less of the comforts of life.
They are also bidding for the destruction OF
their most precious possess!on-that of in
dustrial liberty. Their investments in
mobocracy are mighty poor investments"