Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-30
FOR A NATIONAL FEDERATION. Those Who Join Will Be Protected in
 the Right to Work.

. Chicago, Oct 3O.--War on labor un- ions by a great combination of en- ployers, employees and all persons op- posed to union principles was urged in so forcible a manner by the Rev James c. Boedtke, Presbyteian min iste from Shelbyville, Ind. at yester- days national meeting of employers that be swept away the original plans of the convention. Instead of fed eration of employers associations, there will will be a huge national or ganization that will embrace employ ers' associations and citizens alliances and protective union of employers and employees, whose main object will be to oppose labor unions.
 Between 100000 and 5000 000 per sons in the United States will become
 members of the organization, the ad-
 vocates of the plan believe. They ex- pect thousands of men in every state will leave the labor unions and join the new organization, which will 1 pledge them protection against the un- | ions.
 Until the Shelbyville preacher, of
 whom probably not more than half U dozen men in the hall had heard be- | V, concerning the lines on which the fed eration should be formed. There were
 many who had come to the convention with the idea that national organi-
 zation of the employers associations flor employers alone-was to be
 formed. Delegates from dozen or
 more citizens alliances In the west ] came also, and as the alliances fnclud-i eSi in their membership lawyers, doc tors and even employees, as well as employers, the problem of what shoul
 be done about them at once confront
 ed the convention.
 While they were considering this perpIexing question, the Rev MT
 Boedtke arose. He proclaimed that m organization of employers alone wo'' Id be a class organization, which would
 not win the approval of the public.
 Then he pleaded for federation built on broad lines-one that would in clude all who believed labor unions themselves to oppose 1t.
 Ninety per cent of the workingmen l in the country are opposed to labor un- 1 ions. was one of the assertions he
 made. If the organization would all
 low employees to join as well as em- ployers and would assure them protec- ton from the unions he argued that
 many workingmen would flock to 1t. Delegates from the Kansas City Citizens alliance, that claims a mem bership of 11,O00, from the Denver Citizens alliance, that claims 5000
 members, and from other alliances cheered the ministers words and hey won favor also with many of the del- egates from central and eastern em- ployers' associations, until then op- posed to the idea.
 D. M. Parry, president of the Ma tional Manufacturers assoaiation. . who was believed to favor an ex-
 clusive1y employers organiza ion, said:
 "I don't see what difference 1t will
 make with the federation on what ha- sis the individual associations are formed"
 Others were more enthusiastic. One
 man declared that the organization
 would wield political influence. "The labor unions" he declared 'have not shown themselves able to carry cleo tions, but an organization of this kind will exert great influence"
 There were 300 delegates represent ing nearly one hundred cities and about one hundred and twenty-five associations present at the convention.
 according to the report of the press committee last evening. They came
 from all parts of the country and there was scarcely state that was not rep resented
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