Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-10
ORGANIZATIONS OF EMPLOYERS NOW EXERT HEAVY ~ts- FLUENcE IN LEe-
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Established Along Lines of Organized Labor AntlBoycott Association Wii Meet Every Legislative Com mittee of the American Federation of Labor. To Have Regular Repre- sentative at All Times.

| by organized labor for the first time has played a prominent part in shap ing the work of congress. In their de mand for certain legislation, labor or ganizations have been met at hearings before the committees and opposed in all the devious channels known to politics, by employers organizations which rapidly are becoming as con- pact as these of labor, and which quietly bring tremendous pressure to bear upon public men. The fact is deemed of great economical and polit- ical importance, so much So that a new force is considered to have ap- peared before congress.
 The new force actively and persist ently has opposed the eight-hour bill, the anti-injunction bill and the nation al arbitration bill: and it sets it ma chinery in operation against all legis- lation which amounts to national inter- ference with relations between em- ployer and employe. Behind such measures, with the exception of the national arbitration bill. labor crgani- zations have placed all their influence. The consequent clash has been almost wholly outside of party divisions.
 Results at this congress will not be many, since only the preliminary skir- mishes have taken place. But in con gresses to come the same struggle cer- tainly will be renewed with a greater intensity, and it is apparent that the future efforts will be of superlative i'm portance to the industrial and business interests of the United States.
 Anti-Boycott Association.
 To the fore, on behalf of the organ ized employees have been the officers of the American Anti-Boycott associa- tion which has been here and there and everywhere, opposing the de- mands of labor as represented by the legislative committees of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and of the Knights of Labor. The Anti-Boycott being of secret character. is of an extensive mem bership and its influence beyond a doubt has become tangible quantity.
 Heretofore the contest over the eighthour bill has been of stand-up- fight between the rep of these great industries principally affected by the bill-the hf fnh .l ~fn r. O Samuel Gompers, Furuseth and ether labor leaders. with a scattering of members of the Ma tional Manufacturers association, who have opposed the eight-hour bill on the general principle that it's opera l ion would tend to unsettle business But now the other, and the | power which is more or less a secret | body, has injected the added factor .n- 1 o the issue.
 Constant Attendance.
 Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport, ! Conn, executive agent for the asso- ] ,iatjon, is the only representative of | md organization opposing the labor | pills who has ever been constant in his l on the hearings of these measures and vigilant in his opposi- ion. From the date Of the first hear ng on the eight-hour bill before the | rouse committee, MT. Davenport has every hearing on the measure ,r the anu-injunction bill and has al ways been in evidence with testimony, arguments and counsel for the labor eadere.
 The American Anti-Boycott associa- ion does not 90 to the extent that, when a mans business or his pro lucs are boycotted, the association will furnish him with goods; but 1t ioes employ the best legal talent ob- ,ainable to secure the enforcement of he state and national laws, wherever hey can be invoked against parties 'ngaged in boycotting members of the !, These attorneys making ! constant and special study of the laws. federal and state, md of their application to particular .ases, are of powerful assistance in such cases.