The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-04-18
FLAWS LABUK UNIONS.
President Barry Says Great Peril
Confronts the Country.
Says Labor Organizations Know No
LAW hut FOrce-ThorOugh Or
ganizntion of Manufacturers
the Only Remedy.


New Orleans, April 15.-The Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
representing hundreds of millions Of
invested American capital, began at
Tulane hall Tuesday what promised
to be the most important annual con-
vention in the history of the organi-
cation. The open and avowed hos
tility of President d. NJ. Parry to-
wards the methods of organized la.
Dor has attracted wide attention,
and the largely increased delegate
representation from the various man
ufacturing states of the north was
declared by the members to be large
ly due to the interest taken by the
members in the labor question.
James w. Porch, vice president for
Louisiana, called the convention 70
order. Mayor Paul Capdeville of
New Orleans and Gov. w. w. Heard
addressed the delegates in hearty
speeches of welcome, and President
Parry responded. And then the con-
vention settled itself to the serious
business of the session, beginning
with the reading of the presidents
annual report.
Bitter Attack ON Labor Unions.
After calling attention to the
marked growth of the National Asso.
citation of Manufacturers. which now
has over 2,10o members on it's roll,
Mr.. Parry Immediately took up the
question of the battle between the
manufacturers and organized labor
in connection with the eight-hour and
anti-conspiracy bills. which were de-
feate6 at the last session of con-
gress. He then went on to say:
"Organized labor knows but one
law, and that is the law of physical
force-the law of the Huns and Van
dals, the law of the savage. All its
purposes are accomplished either by
actual force or by the threat of
force. 1t does not place it's reliance
in reason and justice. but in strikes,
boycotts and coercion. 1t is, in all
essential features mob-power,
knowing no master except it's own
will, and is continually condeming
or defying the constituted author;-
ties. The stronger it grows the
greater n menace it becomes to the
continuance of free government, in
which all the people have n voice.
1t is, in fact, despotism springing
into being in n midst of liberty-lov.
ing people.
The Muscle Truat.
"OrganiZcd labor is particularly de,
mandatory of trusts, but what great
err trust is there than itself? 1t IA
the grand trust Of the times. Tt is
the muscle trust. the trust of men
who make their living by manual Ia
Dor. 1t is TO be hoped that, in ac-
sordancc with the Nelson amendments
to the department of commerce bill,
the government in turning the
scarchlight of publicity on the trusts,
will not forget organized labor.
The Conl Strike.
Mr.. Parry then took up the anthra-
cite strike and the municipal conli-
tion of Chicago. He pointed out that
by the system of joint agreement in
force between the coal operators
and the United Mine Workers the
public is not consulted when advances
in wage scales are granted, and that
if the price of coal is to continue
to go up it means the "indus-
trial destruction of the United
States" for the high price of coal
entering into the cost of manufac.
turcd products will shut us out from
the competition with the rest of the
world.
Declares Arbitration Ia n Failure.
The American Federation of Labor
was denounced as an organization
which "breeds boycottcrs, pickcters
and socialists and the source from,
whence proceeds such noxious EN-.
anations MS the eight-hour and anti
conspiracy bills" The speaker de.
nounccd Cancellation as II myth and
arbitration as failure, holding that
there can be no cancellation or arbi-
tration when Il gun is pointed Mt
the head of employers and they are
forced to arbitratc whether they will
or not. AS n cure for the many
"evils" confronting employers, Mr.
Parry recommended organization
among manufacturers and employ.
ers which shall embrace the last EN-.
ployer in the United States, the vnri.
Gus minor organizations to be com.
bined in one grand national fedora.
ton.
KNnsans Have Money In Bank.
Topeka, Kan, April 15.-Thc bank
deposits of Kansas now amount to