The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-15
ORGANIZED LABOR
HOTLY ARRA|GNED
Accusedof Exercising Savage
and Brutal Tyranny.
C. w. POST THE SPEAKER
The Association of Manufacturers Meet in Tu-
lane Hall, New 0teans- Numerous Reso-
lutions Bearing on Labor Troubles
Referred to Committee.
Referred to Committee.
(By the Associated Press.)

New Orleans, April 14.-The National
Association of Manufacturers, represent
ing hundreds of millions of invested
American capital began at Tulane Hall
today what promised to be the most
important annual convention in the his
tory of the organization. The open and
avowed hostility of President d. M.
Parry towards tn methods of organized
the largely increased delegate represen-
tation from the various manufacturing
States of the North was declared by tile
members to be largely due TO the interest
taken by the members in the labor ques-
ton. James w. Porch, vice president for
Louisiana, called the convention to order.
Mayor Paul Capdeville, of New Orleans,
and Governor w. w. Heard, addressed
the delegates in hearty speeches of well
come and President Parry responded
And then the convention settled itself
down to serious business of the session.
beginning with the reading of the presi-
dents annual report.
Marshal Cushing, National secretary,
read his annual report, showing an in
crease in membership of 100 per cent
during the last year and a satisfactory
financial condition. The chairman an
nounced his standing committee, and at
IL o'clock an adjournment for luncheon
was taken.
After the luncheon recess Hamilton
Carhart, OF Michigan, National Treas
urer,, reported a satisfactory and improv-
ed financial condition for the treasury.
G. w. Post, of Battfe Creek, Mich, orig
inator of the Post Check System, deliver
ed an address on the Tyranny of
Trades Unions" He said in part:
There may have been come brutal and
tyrannous slave owners in the South, but
ask you if ever in all the history of
negro slavery did there exist such a con-
dtion of oppression, cruelty to men, wo-
men and children; terror, anarchy, beat
ings and murder as now exists under the
acts of desperate members of labor un-
ions?
I'm the gradual solution of the wagel
question and the establishment of the
reports of both parties, labor unions be-
came necessity in order to curb the sell |
fishness and injustice of some manufac- |
turers, but such violent and desperate
excesses have crept into operation of the |
labor unions that common safety demands |
a new union eliminating the faults OF the |
old
Il protest against unnatural acts such |
as curtailment of production by the man
ufacturer, to force lower wages on the !
employee, or b ystrikes to force higher |
wages on the employer. The conditions |
must be produced and governed by the
national law of commerce"
Numerous resolutions We're introduced |
among them being the following:
Endorsing the organization of non n-un-
ion workmen and pledging the association
to their support; pledging the support |
and assistance of members to any gentle
man under union boycott; condemning
the convict labor system; providing a
committee of five to make an effort to
settle the present tariff differences be-
tween the United States and Russia:
for an association bureau of
labor to investigate and attempt to ad-
just the labor troubles of members and
to endeavor to organize and promote a
non union workmen's association to be
known as "the workingmens liberty un-
lon;'' urging tariff revision in general
lines; favoring measures to increase the
elaticity Of the currency.
A resolution condemning New York
paper for it's attack upon President Par
'y's labor policy was introduced and some
iebate followed an attempt to having it
adopted without referring it to the reso~
utions committee.
An active effort to secure the next con-
yentiOn iS heinp made bV TOIedo pitts |
burg and Milwaukee.