The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-02

citation stood behind them with money
to help them out. 1t wasn't long before
the strike was settled without the employ
ers giving up any Of their principles
In many instances I'm just strikes have
won because an employer has feared the
effect on his credit of prolonged strug.
gle. We propose to help sustain the credit
OF those who are in trouble.
"ir Ipe Instance lately in Chicago a bank
proposed to call in loan made TO an en-
ployer who had strike on his hands A
director OF that bank was q member of our
association, and before we got through
that bank was ready to help the employer
instead of virtually aiding those who were
trying to ruin his business
In place of the unions strike fund we
have defence fund. I'm not saying what
that amounts to. The unions say we have
raised s80,O0O,0OO to beat them That
isn't true, Of course but we have concerns
IN our association whose stock alone repre-
sents as much as that. We have mem
bership fee, which am not free to name.
and that has supplied us with all the funds
we have needed thus far. We ask an en-
ployer to hold out as long as he can and then
we say we'll hold out for him and send him
certified check. IL it's necessary No
employer who has been a member of our
association has yielded in any dispute in
association decided were unjust, and the
effect has been felt in every branch Of bust
ness
Where the unions have their blacklists,
We have our fair list. If boycott is at
tempted In strike We put the name of the
concern boycotted on our fair list and that
means that we will get that place all the
business we can. Our tactics in the laundry
strike revealed what we could do, and in
several disputes that have come up since
the international officers, when called in.
have advised the unions to 60 slow and
not to strike once they found the Employ
ers' Association would be involved The
latest TO offer their assistance TO us are
the banks. Several have become mem
hers. not for the reason that they fear
strikes among their clerks but because
they have come to see that in the En-
ployers Association there is some security
against the reckless industrial warfare that
has been going on between employer and
employee. This the banks have been
among the first to feel.
when the labor leaders do not have their
own way they call II war. just now they
are declaring that we are making war on
unions because we have seen fit to pre-
scribe certain principles which employers
shall never give up at the demand OF unions
We are not fighting labor We are fighting
| simply against unjust assaults OF labor
upon capital
THE labor leaders have not taken to
it kindly. They have had me followed
by detectives and they've made all sorts
of threats in Chicago as to what was going
| to happen, Whenever have caught man
shadowing me, I've hired man to shadow
| that man. That's all that was necessary.
The men who make those threats are the
| bully element in a union and they are the
biggest towards on earth. Since we have
stimulated employers to prosecute every
,,fn lola ND ha,, . no
| labor leaders that we are going to see
| the law enforced. II we have to go to the
| highest court to put violator of il in prison,
| the labor DULLES out there have become
very quiet
raj development OF the modern economic
| situation. II is the only salvation for emf
ployers from unjust labor wars. Unless
| such an association includes employers
| of every branch of business it must fail.
One union is helped by another union and
one class Of employers must be helped by
another if we are to have industrial peace.
The organizations patterned after ours
which have been started in such places as
Alton and Freeport, ILL.,, have met with the
| same success. In Alton, where unions
have run the town, an attempt was made,
for instance, to boycott the widow Of
blacksmith because she brought her nephews
| from the country to shoe horses. They
didn't belong to the union. An employers
association was started, her place was
| put on the fair list and it wasn't long be-
fore she had more business than she could
attend to and the unions were beaten in
their attempt to ruin her business. Similar
movements are now under way in st. Louis
and In several other big cities, all Of which
have been watching our experiment in
Chicago.
an time this plan can be extended over
the country. Then the two sides in a labor
| dispute can meet on equal terms. When
that happens this country will have seen
| the last Of strike fevers and labor graft
such as has been revealed here in New York.
| A just strike will succeed, for we do not 50 y
| there shall be no strikes. Our association
does say that the domination and control
Of mans business by union shall cease
and that strikes started with that purpose
in view shall not succeed. When all en-
ployers in a place have become united in
such an organization, the day Of the walk
ing delegate, the grating labor leader and
the strong arm union bully will have
passed. and an era OF peace will set in for
employers and employed alike. and with
gain to both Sides