The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-25
PARRY ANSWERS LABOR men.
RESPONDS TO THEIR LIST OF
QUESTIONS ON UNIONS.
Tells Them what Legitimate Union" 10
and Scores Methods OF Violence
Labor Leaders Boast Of Socialism
Attack on Roosevelt - FOsl Thing"

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Labor Leaders Boast Of Socialism
Attack on Roosevelt - Fool Thing"
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 24.--Immedately fol-
lowing the Labor Day exercises here, at which
President Samuel Gompers Of the American
Federation Of Labor paid his respects to
President Parry Of the National Associa-
ton Of Manufacturers, local labor leaders,
at the suggestion Of Mr.. Gompers. pro-
sented q series Of fifteen questions to Mr..
Parry and asked for an answer to each one.
the questions being 90 framed a. to present
the whole subject Of unionism and secure
Mr.. Parry's views on every point.
Owing to demands upon his tirne Mr..
Parry did not complete his answer to tho
several questions until to-day. and the
whole will be embodied In a pamphlet Of
some 10000 words and distributed among
the manufacturers OF the country. In
an opening paragraph and in answer to a
question regarding Mr.. Parry's idea Of
legitimate and illegitimate unions, he says
that legitimate union ie one that confines
itself to lawful purposes and that it Is not
lawful to attempt to prevent a man from
working simply because he does not belong
to union.
Mr.. Parry contends that man ought to
have the right to choose for whom he would
work, and ifhe Is not suited with the terms OF
employment, he has the undoubted right to
quit, but he has no moral right to stand
around the shop OF his former employer and
endeavor by threats and intimidation to pre-
vent others from working. In this con-
nection he says: THAT the list OF crimes
committed this year under the auspices OF
the strike societies Ia sufficiently ominous
in length to make every self-respectins
man clear bis skirts Of any connection with
organizations to which 80 much odium Is
attached.
unionists boast Of their belief in socialism,
and such men are at heart traitors to their
country, for socialism denies that the Mdl-
vidual possesses inherent rights and says
he must yield to the State every vestige OF
initiative and every claim OF ownership
personally to the property which his energy
and talent create.
Mr. Parry then turns to the creation OF
classes in this country, and says
Again. unionism is doing much to erect
class barriers by destroying the personal
relationship between the employer, and
velcpment appears also to be doing the
same thing, but unionism is certainly &C
oejeratinu the process. It tends to make
the union the boss instead Of the man who
pays the wages, and the latter Is looked
upon as one with whom temporary con-
tract has been made. which q ntr-ct u TO
be filed with as little labor as possible for
the stipulated wages paid.
Talk about labor being considered q
commodity II collective bargaining does
not make it a mere subject of 6Irter, ike
80 much iron or coal. what does IL dcI Tie
employer who deals with a union dicSers
for his labor in a Job lot order He wants
not care particle who does it or how it is
done, just go it is done.
1T is impossible u have a perfect union
along the present lines Of Unit nism. In
England unionism has obtained a strong
foothold 50 strung, in fact. that II has
choked the life out Of large nLmber Of
the leading industries. The British people
now buy from Germany and other foreign
makers the products formerly made by
these Industries, and the thousands Of men
who had employment in them assist In
! making UP the II per cent. Of the popula-
ton II ENGLAND that is a charge upon the
poor relief
About the most fool thing in the boycott
line recently is the atte mpt Of the " ash
ington Central Labor Union TO put the
PRESIDE pt OF the United States on the IN
fair list That unfair list bids fair to
bee ONE rel hcnor With vengeance.
| The President has declared that he will
az minister the law without fear or favor,
and that even though iis open shop order
for the Government d Fart ments defeat
him for reelection, he vii stand by 1t just
the same
1Of oil the absurd end presumrtuous
propositions that Of Attacking the Presi-
| dent bee Sc Of his refusal to violi To his
o"th of fl e to enforce the law without
disnrinin ton ebout caps the climax.
The insolence Of the circular ed recently
by Gonpers, Mitchell end others. after
they he'd called upon the President In refer
ence TO tie Miller case. is only eqralled
by tie ard city Of the misrerresert ton
that it cont ms: According to this circular
the President believes In the open shop
for the G 'vernment, but not for privn te
employers. Any man Of common sense
knows that & is cannot he true.
'The President Is reported also to be In
favor OF the proposed eight-hour biz, bit
It NAV Re snfeiy escorted that no man In
tie Presidents position, end les st Of all
the present incI'rnl' n', would commit him
self in is fashion ,s to proposed act