Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-12-05
CITIZENS INDUSTRIAL ASS0 CIA
TION.

To eliminate the walking delegate is
one of the specific purposes OF the recent
" organized Citizens Industrial Asso-
citation of America. The organization
included in its basic principles an open
shop, no sympathetic strikes, no restric-
ton in the number of apprentices and
output, and the enforcement OF the law
These facts we're developed at the
meetings of the executive committee,
which were concluded in Dayton, Ohio,
Yesterday, clearly indicating the line OF
battle between the employers and the
labor unions.
A resolution was adopted asking Con-
gress not to indorse the eight-hour bill,
when that document comes up for action.
Another resolution requests all employers
associations throughout the country to
affiliate with the national body.
The determined stand to be taken by
the association is indicated in the passage
of a resolution instructing all members
Of employers associations affiliated with
the national body not to place the union
label on any of their output.
1t is proposed also to establish a labor
information bureau, where will be kept
tabulated record of all law breaking
and undesirable workmen.
The present methods employed by
unions in conducting boycott were Bit
terly denounced.
A bureau of organization, publication
and education will likely be located it
Dayton, although the headquarters vii.
be at Indianapolis.
The following platform was adopted as
an open letter to the public and affiliated
associations
"Resolyed, By the executive COM
mittee of the Citizens Industrial Asso-
citation of America, that the present IN
dustrial conditions have become so de-
plorable by reason of the indefensible
methods and claims of organized labor
that the time has come when the en-
ploying interests and good citizenship Of
the country must take immediate and
effective measures to reaffirm and enforce
these fundamental principles OF American
government guaranteeing free compeu-
tive conditions.
'In its demand for the closed shop
organized labor is seeking to overthrow
individual liberty and property rights,
the principal props of our government
IT'S methods tor securing this revolution
ary and socialistic change in our institu-
tons are also those of physical warfare.
Because of this warfare the industrial
interests of the nation during the last
wears have been injured to an irreparablt
degree. Many firms have been driven
into bankruptcy, and the cases are in-
Vulnerable in which workingmen have
been disabled and even murdered, while
numerous families have been rendered
destitute by reason Of the tyranny anC
seditious attacks upon society by the
strike organizati ms.
"a condition of anarchy has existed
continuously in some ST tes for months
past. and, in fact, the acts of lawiess
ness committed under the sacred name
of labor are of such frequent recurrence
that the public sense of their enormitl
has become blunted. The period OF grea
prosperity brought about by the unre
stricted operation of the law of suppl.
and demand is also being destroyed b.
the acts of violence of organized labor
and as a result we are now confronted
with the possibility of period of de
preston. :.
"While we most emphatically objec
to being classed as enemies of organiza
tions of labor that are conducted upoi
lawful and benefcent lines, yet we ar
unalterably opposed TO the present pre-
Cramme of violence, boycotting an
tyranny now being carried out by tn
majority of labor unions.
awe therefore urge the rapid organ
ization Of those who believe in the main
tenance of law and order and the pei
netuation of our free institutions, to tn
end that they may WELD their full an
proper influence upon the destinies
the nation. Since organizations exIs
for the apparent purpose of deiying ia'
and common sense, and are able 10 IL
timidate and influence public men an
municipal authorities, there is no alte
native lett TO those who desire to pc
serve bearable conditions in our bod
polite than that of forming count'
:. organizations.
at is only through the machine'
of organization that we can hope
exercise a potent and saluiary inhuen'
over public thought and the conduct
public officials, to the end that Il
rights of American citizenship can
assured to free and independent labo
the rights OF property protected III
legislation of sOcialistic nature pr
vented from being enacted into law;
- 1--WE invite all associations, lQes
State, and national, that sympathl
- with the purpose Of the Citizens l
g dustrial Association of America to ent
o. into affiliation with us at the earll'
ny practical time, and we urge the II
MS mediate formation Of local branches
=. n' the national organization IN all the citl