The Butte inter mountain., 1903-04-14
President of National Associ-
alton of Manufacturers
Says it Is a Trust.
MENACES FREEDOM OF
INDIVIDUAL AMERICAN
Predicts That Chicago, Strongest City OF
Unions in This Republic, viii Be
Under Martial Law in a Few Months
-Unionsm, Parry Says, Threatens
the Very vitaIs Of the United States.
by ASSOCIATED PRESS,

ing hundreds of millions of invested
American capital, began at Tulane hall
today what promises to be the most I'M
portant annual convention in the history
of the organization. The open and avowed
hostility of President ID. NJ. Parry to-
wards the methods of organized labor has
attracted wide attention and a largely in
creased delegate representation from the
various manufacturing states Of the
Northwest, declared by the members to be
largely due TO the interest taken by the
members in the labor question. The
special train bringing representatives from
the middle states section came in this
morning with President Parry and other
officers of the association. Immediately
upon the arrival of the train the dele
gates gathered at Tulane hall on Univer-
sity Place where James w. Porch, vice
president for Louisiana, called the con-
vention to order. After addresses of wei
come by Mayor Paul Capdevlle of New
Orleans and Gov. w. w. Heard. to which
President Parry responded, the president
read his annual report.
Report Of David N. Parry.
After calling attention to the marked
growth OF the National Association of
Manufacturers, which. now has over s.Ioo
members on its roll, Mr.. Parry imme-
diately took up the question of the battle
between the manufacturers and organized
labor in connection with the eight-hour
and anti-conspiracy bills, which were de-
feated at the last session of congress. Re-
fering to this contest. Mr. Parry said:
by its determined opposition TO the
passage of the eght-hour and the anti.
injunction bills, this association perform
ed what to my mind was a great public
service, the full significance of which is.
perhaps, not realized even by many who
were foremost in condemning those meas
ures. The mere defeating of these two
bills does not tell the story. What was
done that was mucl. more important and
far-reaching was to give an opportune
check TO socialistic impulse. 1t is I'M
possible to hide our eyes to tie fact that
large mass Of the people, forgetful of
the liberties and blessings they now en-
JOY, are with restless ardor striving TO
force the nation to what must eventually
mean industrial disaster, if not anarchy
and despotism.
Organized labor, an army presumably
two million strong, feeling its strength
and exultant over many victories it had
won, concluded last winter that the time
was ripe to make congress engraft upon
the statute books of the nation its sprigs
OF socialism, lcgalizing those dcnials of
individual rights which it has heretofore
sought to enjon by force. 1t drew up
and fathered the eight-hour and anti-in-
junction bills, the former of which could
well have been entitled An act to repeal
the bill of rights guaranteeing the free
dom OF the individual and the latter
should have been termed, "A bill to legal
ize strikes and boycotts
The introduction in congress of such
measures as these and the support they
received there and from the press and
public can only be regarded as ominous
manifestations of the deepseated power
OF an organization which in late years
has had such an insidious growth that
we iind it dominating to a dangerous de-
gree the whole social, political and gov
ernmental systems of the nation. Who
can take note of the hundreds of strik-
ers OF the last year, of the many acts of
aggression and ruthless violation of prin-
ciples heretofore held dear by the Ameri
can people, of the subservient and apollo
getic tones of many newspapers and pub
men towards those things, and also of the
all too prevalent antagonism toward capi-
tai without being impressed with the prav-
ity of the situation? II organized labor
mad succeeded in getting its two bills
enacted into law, more measures OF sim
liar character would have followed close
upon the heels, and we should have found
socialism stealing upon us at a rapid rate.
Attack on Socialism.
1T is well that those who would revo-
lutionizc the social order should at the
very inception of their national program
meet with organized resistance, and it
was fortunate that there was an associa-
tion strong enough to checkmate the in
iluence of organized labor last winter, and
that at time when in the full plenti-
tude of its power, it seemed certain to
success. This conflict-and it was a con.
hict, and very momentous one--deserves
to go down in the history as the first de-
cisive defeat of the socialstic forces which
have of late years had such surprising
growth.
"One thoroughly alive to the true nature
of this un-American institution of organ
lied labor as at present conducted, the
people, firmly believe, will place their
stamp of disapproval upon it, and it will
dwindle in power faster than it grew
Perhaps new form of unonism will take
Its place--a benefcent unionism-for the
right of the workmen to organize within
the spirit of the federal constitution is
not to be disputed. The employers of this
country have no quarrel with the men
that work for them, considered as indi-
viduals. The welfare Of those who toll in
our factories calls for our most earnest |
But what we must protest |
against is the unwarrantable usurpation
Of rights and the disastrous industrial pol
cy which characterizes them in their pres
INT associated capacity.
Organized labor knows but one law,
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