The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-24

hereby petition you and Congress for re- lief from the present extraordinary and serious situation.
 This understanding we believe to be ! our just and patriotic duty to afford you our President, in whom we enjoy the greatest confidence. as faithfully and loy- ally having our best interests in mind as President of the people. for the peo- ple and by the people. duty that we owe to the public and to ourselves We believe that other kindred associations will promptly petition you as indorsing every statement that we have here presented. since we have petitioned you in this way.
 Tn this petition we most confidently feel we have the strongest approval of the people"
 Senator Hanna and MT. Parry.
 An official of a big manufacturing com. pany in writing on the subject apropos of the controversy between Senator Han ma and D. Nj. Perry over labor unions and their rights and powers expresses himself freely on the subject. He says:
 Wouldn't 1t be well to suggest that both MT Hanna and Mir. Perry are right?
 Senator Hanna has plenty of profit and can afford to be liberal with labor. MT. Parry speaks from the standpoint of q vehicle manufacturers. who. after paying tTIUuLC tO tltC StCGl wheel trust, pole and shaft trust. bolt combination, rivet combination. screw combination lumber combination and nu- merous others, all demanding advanced prices and spot cash upon arrival, has to give long time to his customers with prices to his trade that will induce them to buy Cat home and exporD.
 There isn't much room left to be a good fellow with upon the part of the e., Ia loh manent co-partner.
 Tn making our class of implements to- day, we are having to pay tribute to the steel trust. which not only controls the general steel material but likewise the many intricate shapes and forms of steel that are required, such as hoe points, discs. runners or shoes. also to dozens of other combines"
 Position of Harvester Combine.
 R. B. Swift of the Mccormick division of the International Harvester Company said yesterday:
 Our company and the other four com panies belonging to the combine of har- vcsting machine manufacturers are no longer dependent upon any trust for the raw material they use. There was a time when the steel trust. the ducking trust and other trusts caused us considera blc trouble by raising the prices of the raw material which we were compelled to pur- chase from them. We were left with the alternative of raising the prices of the manufactured machines or finding some means of securing our material at lower prices. We chose the latter alternative and began to prepare ourselves.
 We now own our own timber lands and saw mills, our own iron mines fur naces and rolling mills. our glass works, cotton mills. twine mills and other estab- lishments for producing the materials which enter into the manufacture of har- vesting machines and other agricultural machinery. We no longer depend upon any trust for such material, and are able to sell our harvesters at the same price as heretofore.
 Large Expenditures Required.
 "All this required the expenditure of enormous sums of monew by the five con cerns in the combine, which includes the Mccormick Cmpany, the Deering liar vester Company. the Plano Manufactur- ing Company, the Milwaukee Harvester Company and the Champion Harvesting Machine Company. These companies pro duce over % per cent of all harvesting ma chimes manufactured in this country. The smaller compa nies, which have not the means of making themselves independent of the trusts by producing their own raw material, are undoubtedly still squeezed, and 1t may be that they intend to appeal to the President for help. But have no information on that point"