The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-15
ORGANIZED LABOR is
DENOUNCED MOST
SAVAGELY
President Parry, of the Ma
tiOnaI Association of Manu-
facturers, Opensthe Annual
Convention With a Most
Vitriolic Attack Upon
Trades UDionism.


National Association of Manufacture
ers, representing hundreds of millions
of invested American capital, began
at Tulane hall today what promised
TO be the most important annual con-
Vention in the history of the organiza-
ton. The open and avowed hostility
of President D. NJ. Parry towards the
methods of organized labor has at
tracted wide attention and the large
ly increased delegate representation
from the various manufacturing
states of the North was declared by
the members to be largely due to the
interest taken by the members in the
labor question.
James w. Porch. vice president for
Louisiana, called the convention to
order. The convention began it's
work with the reading of President
Parry's annual report, which in
cludeS these utterances:
"Organized labor knows but one
law, and that is the law of physical
force-the law of the Huns and Van
dals, the law of the savage. All its
purposes are accomplished either by
actual force or by the threat of force
1t does not place it's reliance in reason
and justice, but strikes, boycotts and
coercion. 1t is, in all essential fea-
q lures, mob power knowing no mas
ter except its own will, and is con-
tinually condemning or defying the
constituted authorities. The stronger
II grows the greater menace it be-
comes TO the continuance of free gov
eminent, in which all the people have
voice. 1t is, in fact, a despotism
Springing into being in a midst of lib
erty loving people. In setting itself
up as a power independent of the
power of the state it does not regard
itself as bound to observe the Four
teenth amendment of the Constitution
of the United States, which declares
that no state shall attempt to abridge
the privileges or right of life, liberty
and property of any citizen.
"BIood and Ruin"
ut has not hesitated to resort to
violence and the destruction of prop
erty to compel the acceptance of it's
demands. Its history is stained with
blood and ruin. Many a man whose
only fault was that he stood upon his
rights has been made to suffer out
rage, and even death, and many an
employer has been brought face to
face with financial ruin. These
wrongs cry unto Heaven, and yet an
unarOused public sentiment too often
permits them to go unheeded and I'M
punished.
1T now demands of the public and
OF congress the privilege to violate
the laws fOrbidding violence and pro-
unue to maintain it's power through
terrorism. 1t extends it's tactics of
coercion and intimidation over all
classes, debating to the press and to
the politicians, and strangling indie
pendence of thought and American
manhood. 1t denies to those outside
OF It's ranks the individual right to dis
pose of their labor as they see fit-a
right that is one of the most sacred
and fundamental of American liberty.
1t is ridiculous to assert that
UNIVERSAL application of the arbitrary
wage scale scheme would bring about
anything but an advance in nominal
wages, or in other words, a decrease
IN the purchasing power of the dollar.
Real wages would remain practically
the same. Who can say that anv
man-made plan for the division of
production will be less unjust than
the natural law? The artificial divi-
sion of consumable wealth means
uespodsm, tyranny and slavery. 1t
means the death knell of progress: it
means ruin to civilization. The natu-
raj division of consumable wealth so
long recognized in this country. means
freedom means justice, means prog
ress. We owe everything to the free
dom that has characterized orr in
dustrial system"
Breeds Boycotters and Socialists.
Inc american Federation of Labor
was denounced as an organization
Whlch breeds boycotters, picketers
and socialists, and the source from
whence proceeds such noXious emana-
lions as the eight-hour and anti-con-
spiracy bills. The speaker denounced
cohclhatlon as myth and arbitra-
1lon as failure, holding that there
can be no Cancellation or arbitration
When gun is pointed at the head
OF employers and they are forced to
aroltrate whether they will or NOT.
AS cure for the many evils con-
fronting employers" Mr.. Parry rec
commended organization among man
uIacturers and employers which shall
embrace the last employer in the
United States, the various minor Or
CARNATIONS to be combined in one
national federation.
Mr.. Parry recommended the maxi-
mum and minimum tariff as a solu-
tlon OF the reciprocity question.
Marshall Cushing, national score
tary, read his annual report shown.
an increase in membership of 100 per
cent during the last year, and a salts
factory financial condition The after
noon session was devoted to discus
SION OF the annual reports and the Of
terlng of resolutions.
{. w. Post, of Battle Creek Mich
originator Of the Post check system
deHVered an address on 1.-The TYRANNY
OF Trades Unions"
numerous resolutions were intro
duced and referred to committee with
out debate, among them being the fol-
lowing:
Indorsing the organization of nom
union Workmen and pledging the asso-
citation to their support; pledging sun
port and assistance to any member IN
DER union boycott; condemning the
convict labor system; providing a COM
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tie the present tariff differences he.
tween the United States and Russia:
providing for an associated bureau of
TABOR TO investigate and adjust labor
troubles and to endeavor to organize
and promote non-union workingman,S
association to be known as THE Work
1ngman's Liberty union" urging tariff
revision on general lines; favoring
measures to increase the elasticity Of
the currency.
Mot Ach of Dali