The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-05
BY LABOR UNIONS
EMPLOYERS CLAIM THAT HAVOC
is WROUGHT.
THEY RECITE THE CONDITIONS
THAT PREVAIL WHERE LABOR
FORCES ITS DEMANDS.

The Citizens Industrial Association
Declares 1t Is Not Arrayed Against
Labor Unions That Are Restricted
to Acts and Purposes That Are
LawfuI-StrOng Protest Against
Policies That Some of the Labor
Unions Have Followed.
Dayton, o., Dec. 4.-Before adjourn
ment to-day the Executive Committee
of the Citizens Industrial Association
resolved against members placing the
union label on articles of their own
manufacture. They also took ground
in opposition to the eight-hour bill,
now pending in Congress. They pro-
vided for the formation of labor in
formation bureau for the use of mem
bers. A platform was adopted as
an open letter to the public, which
says:
THE present industrial conditions
have become so deplorable by reason
of the indefensible methods and claims
of organized labor that the time has
come when the employing interests and
good citizenship of the country must
take estimate and give measure to af-
firm and enforce those fundamental
principles of American government
guaranteeing free, competitive condi-
tions.
Seeks to Overthrow Liberty.
I'm it's demands for the closed shop,
organized labor is seeking to over
throw liberty and property rights, the
principal props of our government. Its
methods for securing this revolution
airy and socialistic change in our in
stitutions are also those of physical
warfare. Because of this warfare
the industrial interests of the nation
during the last year have been injured
to an irreparable degree. Many firms
have been driven to bankruptcy, and
| the cases are innumerable in which
workingmen have been disabled and
even murdered, while numerous fami-
lies have been rendered destitute by
reason of tyranny and seditious at
tacks upon society by the strike or
CARNATIONS.
"A condition of anarchy has existed
continuously in some states for
months past and, in fact, the acts of
lawleSSness committed in the name of
labor are of such frequent recurrence
that the public sense of their enormity
has become blunted. The period of
great prosperity brought about by the
unrestricted operation of the law of
supply and demand is also being de-
stroyed by the acts of violence of or
ganized labor. and as a result we are
now confronted with the possibility
of period of depression.
Not Enemies to Labor.
"While we most emphatically object
izations of labor that are conducted
upon lawful and beneficent lines, yet
we are unalterably opposed to the pres
ent programme of violence, boycotting
and tyranny now being carried out
by the majority of labor unions.
1--WE therefore urge the rapid organ
ization of those who believe in the
maintenance of law and order and the
perpetuation of our free institutions,
to the end that they may WELD their
full and proper influence upon the
destinies of the nation. 1t is only
through the machinery of organiza-
ton that we can hope to exercise a
potent and salutary influence over pub
lie thought and the conduct of pub
lie officials, to the end that the rights
of American citizenship can be as
sured to free and Independent labor
the rights of property protected and
legislation of a Socialistic nature pre-
vented from being enacted into law"