Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-04-23
BITTER AGAINST UNIONS.
President Barry, of Manufacturers
Association, Makes Attack on
Labor Organization.
DECLARES IT KNOWS NO LAW BUT FORCE
Carroll ID. Wright, Labor Commits
sioner, Addresses the Association,
and Says Labor and Capital Must
Get ON Together - Resolutions
Adopted by the Manufacturers.

New Orleans, April IS. = The Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
representing hundreds of millions of
invested American capital, began at
Tulane hall yesterday. President Parry
read his annual address in which he
took up the question of the battle be-
tween the manufacturers and organ
lied labor in connection with the eight
hour and anti-conspiracy bills, which
were defeated at the last session of the
congress, and said:
"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 it's
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 authori-
ties. The stronger it grows the
greater a menace it becomes to the
continuance of free government, in
which all the people have voice.
It is, in fact, despotism springing
into being in midst of liberty-lov-
ing people.
Declares Arbitration Is a Failure.
The American Federation of Labor
was denounced as an organization
which ''breeds boycotters, picketers
and socialists and the source from
whence proceeds such noxious en-
anations as the eight-hour and anti
conspiracy bills" The speaker de-
nounced con Citation as myth and
arbitration as a failure, holding that
there can be no Cancellation or aroi-
tration when a gun is pointed at
the head of employers and they are
forced to arbitrate whether they will
or not. AS a 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 vari
Gus minor organizations to be COM
bined in one grand national fedora
ton. So
3: Carroll Wright Speaks. wv
New Orleans, April 16.-At the morn
| ing session yesterday Carroll d. Wright,
commissioner of labor, was introduced
and was given a hearty reception.
President Roosevelt had been invited to
attend the convention, and in declining
named Mr.. Wright to represent him.
On capital and labor Mr.. Wright said:
'Some of the methods of the labor
union are to be condemned. So are
some of the methods of the capitalistic
organizat ions to be condemned, but be-
cause they cannot get on together does
not mean that either or both should be
destroyed. They must get on together.
That is the necessity of the time, and it
is to the intelligence of the leaders of
both interests that society at large
looks for the development of industry
on a basis of social progress.
''The great question for employers
and employees is, will they, in the con-
duct of their mutual affairs, excite the
militant spirit, or invoke that peace
full consideration which leads to the
adoption of the highest elements of
business interests?"
Resolutions Adopted.
AT noon the resolutions committee
announced its report and it was adopt
ed as follows:
We, the members of the National
Association of Manufacturers, United
States of America, in convention as
sembled at New Orleans. do hereby de-
clare the following principles which
shall govern this association in it's
work in connection with problems of
labor:
1. Fair dealing is the fundamental
and basic principle on which relations
between employees and employers
should rest.
2. The National Association of Manu-
facturers is not opposed to organiza-
tions of labor as such, but it is un-
alterably opposed to boycotts, black
lists and other illegal acts of interior
ence with the personal liberty of en-
ployer and employe.
3. No person should be refused en-
p1oyment or IN any way disseminated
against on account of membership or
non-mem bership in any labor organiza-
ton. and there should be no discrim-
nation against or interference with
anv employe who is not member of
labor organization by members of
such organizations.
4. With due regard to contracts, it
is the right of the employee to leave his
employment whenever he sees fit, and
it is the right of employer to discharge
any employe when he sees fit.
S. Employers must be free to employ
their work people at wages mutually
satisfactory, without interference or
dictation on the part of the individuals
of organizations not directly parties
to such contracts.
6. Employers must be unmolested
and unhampered in the management of
their business and in the use of any