The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-24
Meeting at which subcommittees
Were Appointed to Aid i'm Unicn-
fzing Employers.
STATEMENT BY MR. PARRY
WHO SAYS MANUFACTURERS WILL
NOT YIELD To AGITATORs.
Movement 10 Combine Against Boy
costers and walking Delegates,
He Says, IL Tremendous.

NEW YORK, May pa meeting Of the
executive committee of the National Asso-
citation OF Manufacturers has been held In
this city, at which subcommittee repre-
sentine widely diversified industries were
appointed 10 go TO work Systematically all
over this country TO unionize employers.
Special steps are to be taken to engage
eminent legal counsel in the several States
TO protect the manufacturers against boy
colts, injunctlons and the activity Of walk
ing delegates. At the meeting none but
cordial good will was expressed for the la
boring men themselves. One result of the
New Orleans convention which was fur
thered at this meeting was the systemiza-
ton OF the work of the special committee
which Is to deyise and put into effect prac-
teal plans for bringing about the co-opera-
ton OF the many state employers associa-
TONS Along that line this resolution was
adopted:
Resolved. That the secretary of this as
ISOLATION be empowered to develop sources
OF Information by which he shall be en-
abied TO keep in the closest touch with all
proposed legislation affecting the interests
OF manufacturers in the several States, and
that he be given discretionary power to call
this TO the attention Of employers and man.
ufacturers IN any State II in his judgment
the rights and interests OF such employers
and manufacturers shall be affected by
such proposed legislation"
This was understood to signify that the
sharpest sort OF watch Is to be maintained
at the national capital at Washington, as
well as at the different state capitals. A
year ago this new organization comprised
g78 Erms; to-day, the secretary announces,
1t numbers 2.264 employers and manufac-
turers, representing every State in the
Union:
In addition to the president. D. NJ Parry,
Of Indianapolis, those present included A.
Il. Farquhar, president of the Farquhar
Manufacturing Company. Of York. Pa. J..
Company, of Columbus, o.; James Inglis,
OF the American Blower Company, Detroit;
H s. Smith, Of the Menasha WOODWARD
Company, Of Wisconsin,; Q. n. Fay, of the
Fay-Shoales Company. of Chicago; ]. w.
Van Cleve. of the Bucks Stove and Range
Company, of St Louis, and H. s. Chamber
lain. OF Chattanooga. Besides these firms
the executive committee at large was rep
resented through these concerns among
others: The United States Glass Company,
of Pittsburg. by Daniel c. Ripley; the Fay
Thomas Eagen; the Nunemacher Company,
OF Louisville, by T. c. Nunemacher, and
the Tompkins Manufacturing Company, of
Charlotte. ~. c., by Daniel A. Tompkins
Mr.. d. NJ. Parry, president of the associa-
ton. after the meeting adjourned said:
Neither the labor agitators, the prole-
tarats tie eeelesisstirsi those Who are
nor the press have any idea of the tremen-
dous movement that is under way among
all classes Of employers all over this coun-
petty rivalrfes, the men who have their
money and their interests centered in man.
ufactures Of every description have reached
the conclusion that they must act as a unit
in a great national movement insuring
them the control Of their own capital They
have granted a shorter work day and
cheerfully higher wages. but they will not
yield the right 10 decide how they are to
conduct their own business