The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-16
Manufacturers Against Black
Lists, Boycotts, Strikes.
ALSO AGAINST LOCKOUTS
The associations Passes important Resolutions
Which are Opposed by Jam.s 0. F. Taller,
Of Cincinnati, Backed by Mayor
Jones Ct ToIt do.
(By the Associated Press.)

New Orleans, La, April 15,-Interest in
today's session of the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers centered in the
report of the Resolutions Committee,
which was made at noon. The labor
question Immediately came to the front
in the shape of resolution embodying
declaration of principles, declaring
against boycotts and lockouts, recognz-
ing the right of labor to organize, but
without interference with the liberty of
employers or employee" denying the right
of unions to fix wages, and pledging the
association TO oppose all legislation not
in accord with the foregoing principles
A motion to adopt the resolutions
brought a protest from James F. Taller,
of Cincinnati, who demanded that the
resolution be printed and held over until
tomorrow. Mr. Taller was supported by
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, and a rising
vote was demanded. The motion to defer
action was lost by heavy vote and the
resolutions were adopted. They contain
the following declarations:
Il. Fair dealing is the fundamental
and basic principle on which relations
between employees and employers should
rest
'2. The National Association of Man
ufacturers is not opposed to organizations
of labor IS such, but it is unalterably
opposed to boycotts, blacklists and other
illegal acts of interference with the per-
sonal liberty of employer and employc.
49, No person should be refused cm-
ployment or in any way Disseminated
against on account of membership or
ncn- membership in any labor organiza-
ticn, and there should be no discrmina-
ton against or interference with any
employe who is not a member of a labor
organization by members of such organi-
za tions.
a With due regard to contracts, it
is the right of the employe to leave his
employment whenever he sees fit and it
is the right of the employer to discharge
any employe when he sees fit
''5. Employers must be free to employ
their work people at wages mutually
satisfactory. without interference or die
tation on the part of individuals or or
ganizations not directly parties to such
contracts.
''6 Employers must be unmolested
and unhampered in the management of
their business and in the use of any
methods or systems of pay which are
just and equitable.
81. No limitation should be placed up
on the opportunities of any person to
learn any trade to which he or she may
be adapted.
'S. This association disapproves abso-
lutely of strikes and lockouts and favors
an equitable adjustment of all differ
ences between employers and employees.
'9. The National Association of Man
ufacturers pledges itself to oppose any
and all legislation not in accord with
the foregoing declaration
At the morning session Carroll d.
Wright, Commissioner of Labor, made an
address in the course of which he said:
THE workingman has risen from ignor-
ance to intelligence, and as he has reach
ed intelligence he has become more or
less a greater complication in industrial
affairs. In his ignorance he did not
strike; in his intelligence he does strike.
The next step in the development in his
intelligence will be that he will not
strike; that he will be able to accommo-
date himself to conditions because he
will understand them better. He will be
able to recognize his rights in relation
to the rights of others and to know fully
what is necessary for successful pToduc-
tion, where now he takes only a part.
This means, of course, the organization,
the continuance, the perfection of labor
unions Some of the methods of the
labor union are to be condemned. SO are
some of the methods of capitalistic or
ganizations to be condemned, but because
they cannot get on together does not
mean that either or both should be de-
stroyed. They must get on together.
''The great question for employers and
employees is: Will they in conduct of
their mutual affairs exhibit the militant
spirit or invoke that peaceful consldera
tion which leads to the adoption of the
highest elements of business interests"