The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-13
President of the Manufacturers As
ISOLATION Makes Significant Ad-
dress at Chautauqua.
Says Unionism Is Doing More Than
Any Other Agency to En-
courage Anarchy.
Recent Strikes, He Says, Have Re-
suited in Mob Conditions in
Many Cities.

Chautauqua, N. Y, Aug. I'D. M. Par
ry president of the National Association
Of Manufacturers, to-day delivered one
Of the most important addresses yet heard
before the conference on 1.-THE Mob Spirit
in America
Mr. Parry spoke on ''The Mob Spirit In
Organized Labor" He said in part: In
this country in the last year there have
been many mobs Of different kinds, but to
my mind the most dangerous Of them all
is the mob Of organized labor. No man,
I take 1t, can object to any kind of asso-
citation, labor or other, which is organized
for lawful and benefcent purposes, but
organized labor, as 1t Is conducted to-day,
stands convicted by it's own leaders as a
lawless organization.
I'm that it seeks by physical force to
override individual rights and Is contin-
ually railing against the laws and denoun-
cling courts and public officials fer en-
forcing these laws, it fulfils all the re-
quirements of the definition of mobocracy.
Unlike the lynching bees and the vigilance
committees, it is what might be termed
a standing mob under fair discipline by
It's officers, and ready upon occasion to
commit the overt acts of outrage and de-
struction which are the outward manifes-
tation of the mob spirit.
TT declares in effect that it's will 10
| superior to customs, traditions, govern
ment regulations and even the constitu-
| SANSDs
Individual has no inherent rights that
cannot be taken from him, and that, there
fore, it has the right to say that no man
shall work and that no industry shall run
without its consent.
| Relies Upon Coercion.
| In its attempt to compel recognition
| of its pretentions to sovereignty it relies
not on reason but upon coercion, inttmi-
dalton and the bludgeon. In its continual
prea chments against law and its constant
| appeal to the baser passions Of men 1t is
doing more than any other agency to
inculcate the mob spirit and to encourage
the unfurling of the red flag OF anarchy.
| 1.-The president of the Chicago fedora
ton Of labor recently declared in an in
| terview: The president deals a death
| blow to organized labor when he declares
that he cannot discriminate In It's favor
It sounds fair on the face Of it, but with
| out discrimination we are just where We
| started. Whatwe have been fighting for
Is union labor, to the exclusion Of all
i other,
These are the words Of a representative
! among union leaders, and they voice the
sentiment Of the agitators the country
over. To their mind If you deny the right
of their organization to commit illegal
acts you are attempting to crush 1t. II
organized labor has only lawless purposes
1t ought to be crushed.
During the last year the attempts to
force men to give allegiance to strike
bosses in their plans to set up an dig
archy that will control industry indepen-
dent of the laws Of the country have res
suited in mob conditions in many Of tho
); leading centers, and the nation has lost
millions of dollars thru the idleness OF
thousands of men. This loss must fall
heavier on the men who depend on a
daily wage than those who have some
thing to fall back on. It is time that
the workmen of this country were learn
ing that for the millions of dollars they
4 pay in salaries to the agitators they are
J securing in return nothing but ceaseless
trouble, enforced idleness, and loss Of the
| comforts of life. They are also bidding
for the destruction of their most prec-
ious Professionalism of industrial lib
erty Their investments in mobocracY
are mighty poor investments"