The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20
cHICAGO'S WAR
 ON THE UNIONS
How the Windy City Capitalists Are Fighting the Organiza-
 tions of Labor.

CHICAGO.
 Chicago is the great storm. center of labor and capital In the United States. Its record of strikes exceeds that of any other citx. It shas about two hundred thousand men in its trades unions and 1t has been and is now largely ruled by the man in. the 'overalis. At the same time the capitalists are good fighters. They have studied trades union methods and within the past few months have com bined together in great association to protect themselves. Nearly every busi- ness has It's local organization of employ CTS, and these ave affiliated with the great city association of employers, which Is now opposing a solid front to most of the demands of organized labor.
 The Chicago Employers Association representsa a capital of thousands of mil- Hons of dollars. It is backed by Marshall Field & Company and the, great depart ment stores, by the rnillionaire pork pack CTS and the ssteel magnates. < by the street railways. and by about 2.OoO other com panies and indiyiduals handling altogeth- CT a number of workmef far in excess of the army of the United States. S
 This association is running It's campaign in opposition to organized labor on much the same lines 1as those which organ fixed labor has used to defeat the indi- vidual employer. It has brought a new feature into the labor question and one which promises to extend to every city of the United States Similar associations are being organized in many places and they may in time form part of a great national association embracing the whole country,
 The Walking Delegate of the Million
 'V aires' Club.
 The Chicago, Employers Association can command no end of money and it is ready to spend freely to protect the in- dividual workman Or the individual em- ployer. supplying the latter with funds to reimburse him for losses in case of strikes and even carrying him financially at the banks. It will protect him or the workman in the courts and bring the best legal talent in opposition to any fight with organized l abor. ss
 The association has a secretary who is paid salary bigger than that of Unit ed States Senator. He holds much the same position in regard to the associa- tion as Samuel Gompers does to the American Federation of Labor or John Mitchell to the United Mine Workers and he has in fact, been nicknamed the Walking Delegate of the Millionaires' Club" The real name of this man is Frederick W. Job. and his profession Is that of a lawyer. He is an Illinois man and is a graduate of Ann Arbor.. He is, I judge, about forty years old, Is six feet tall, and weighs two, hundred pounds He Is big headed and broad shouldered. having the muscles of an athlete and the jaw of bull dog. He looks like a Ro6A fighter and as far as I can learn is prov ing himself so.
 How Chicago Employers Combine. {, met Mir. Job in his office in the Mar duette building on Dearborn street and had long chat with him about the Elm ployers Association and the labor condi- tions here. In response to my questions as to the association, he said:
 We are a combination of employers unions rather than an association of in- divldual employers without regard to our businesses. The association does not want individual employers as members al- though there are. cases in which such are taken in, It Is rather an afiliatioiI Of the representatives of employers as- eociations. For instance, the laundry owners of Chicago have an organization, the manufacturing confectioners have an organization and the brass manufactur- CTS and. the picture frame makers have each an organization. It Is so with near ly every branch of business We are made up of all these organizations as such, @no IT an individual employer wants to join us we tell him to join the employers organization of his own business and to be represented through it.
 Then you are to the employers asso- ciations much what the American Feder- ation of Labor is to the different trades unions
 Yes" said MT. Job. Save that our held Is confined to Chicago and It's neigh borhoo9, and also that we believe in the laws and in doing all We can to enforce them, and this the trades unions do not"