The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-18
A Significant Event.

That was quite a significant event
yesterday when the large assembly
room at the Commercial club was
filled by business men, and particularly
the employing heads of commercial
and industrial establishments, to listen
to D. M. Parry. Mr.. Parry is the lead
er of a new movement defense
National Manufacturers association.
which suggests his Importance in the
industrial world, but more interest
ing fact in this connection is that he
is president of the Citizens Industrial
alliance.
This alliance is the defense move
ment referred to. 1t is a rapidly
growing organization of employers.
1t isn't confined to one line of business,
as such associations usually are, but
by it's general character suggests the
existence of q wider bond Of mutual
interest which takes in all kinds of
business.
1t is something new in our indus
trial life. 1t has come into existence
to meet new and peculiar conditions.
It is significant of the present trend
of public sentiment in the industrial
world. Something has happened
which has set men to thinking, and
has resulted all over the country in
just such meetings as were held at
the Commercial club yesterday.
Mr.. Parry has been heard from be-
fore. He has uttered some strong
statements and has come to be regard
ed as a very radical man. We do not
however, discover anything in his ut
terances yesterday, or in his printed
platform, SO far as we have read it
which entities him to be regarded as
a devil with horns. He has struck the
public mind with his strong and cour-
ageous utterances on the labor ques.
ton, but when we come to ana1yze
what he said here, we do not find any
thing in it necessarily hostile to la
Dor unions. g He comedies the pro
priety of labor organization and the
right of workers to organize and use
| every legitimate means for the ad
| vancement of their interests, as ever!
sane man must. That organization
has accomplished a great deal for tht
| benefit Of labor has long ago beer
conceded; we do not find anybody dis
putting that proposition, and we do no
! find any sentiment worth talking abou
anywhere against the organization o
| labor itself.
There must be something new IL
the situation which has given ris'
to new sentiments and brought int
existence this new movement Of which
Mr.. Parry is the head.
There is something new.
/ That something new is the att
tude in which organized labor OF
numerous occasions has placed itsel
with respect to the rights of other
and the supremacy Of the law. TIL
| American public is sensitive RICH
| there. The rights and liberties o
the citizen under the constitution
/ are very sacred possessions, and whe
they begin to be seriously interfere
with there is sure to be trouble. Som
laDOT -ledueIS, IloIe lIipieSoSu WI
their powers than with their respon
sibilities, have been using their pow
ers in such a manner as to Conf1ic
with the rights of others They hav
assumed special privileges for them
selves and the members of their OF
CARNATIONS which do, not exist, an
never will exist. They have as
sumed to be above law. Hence tn
necessity that some one call after
ton to their serious mistake. That
! what the Citizens Industrial Allianc
is for, as we understand it, and thu
is what Mr.. Parry's visit and til
meeting yesterday means.