The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-30
Cotton Men of Georgia to Hold
 Important Meeting
DANIEL DAVENPORT ID SPEAK
Will Tell Southern Manufacturers How to Avoid Serious Labor Sltua- ton That Has Arisen in
 New England.

Washington May 9.-(Speeial )-Those
 concerned in the manufacture. Jobbing or
 consumption of cotton goods on large
 scale will be deeply interested In the
 fifth annual meeting of the Georgia In-
 dustriai association. which will be held at Warm Springs, Ga, on June g. This organization comprises a membership of one hundred and fifty Georgia cotton man. ufacturers, noted for their progressive views, whose intelligent efforts have done much to rebuild the industries and re- store the commercial importance of that section, and it is expected a number of southern senators, members of congress and pubicists will be present as guests of the association, among them being Sen ators Bacon, Clay and Money and Rep resentative Adamson, Livingston and l others.
 The approaching meeting will be es- pecially noteworthy because of the va- riety and importance of the topics sched- uled for discussion, which are of great moment to the south and of general inter- est to manufacturers throughout the country. The principal discussions will l l grafton, and state and national legisla- tion affecting the same; the effect of the Panama canal on southern industries, and the condition of the far western markets as affected by the Russo-Japanese war. Of these the south Is at present most Italy interested in the question of labor supply-labor for its fields and its mills. | Are Dstanclng Competitors.
 It is the discussion of this particular question which will be of greatest inter- est to the cotton manufacturers of the eastern and New England states. While the supply of labor in the south Is linn tied, i. is today comparatively unre- stricted and with a ten 10 twelve-hcur day the southern mills are rapidly dls- tancing their competitors who are con- fined to eight ard hire hours.
 As yet the south is singularly free from labor legislation of a restrictive charac- ter and the southern manufacturers view with grave apprehension the possibility of a growth of the labor unions in their section, followed as 1t inevitably would be, by camor for such legislation and the limiting of apprentices and output. The New England manufacturers is not | behind the southerner In recognizing the l advantage of the south in this respect l and certain Massachusetts manufacturers l have headed a movemnet for the adoption of a constitutional amendment giving power to the United States government | to regulate, throughout the entire coun- try, the hours of labor to the end that conditions shall be equalized and all the various industries conduct their opera l A such an amendment has been introduced by Representative Lowering of Massa- l chusetts.
 Profit by Their Experience. | The southern cotton manufacturers hope to profit by the experiences of their New England competitors and avoid the legis- lative nets in which they are emeshed, l and, therefore in order to learn, first hand, of the pernicious consequences of this sort of legislation, first upon the industry and then upon the very labor which secured it's enactment, the asso- citation has invited Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport Conn. to deliver the annual address.
 l MT. Davenport Is the executive agent l and one of the attorneys of the American Anti-Boycott association, an organization which was formed especially for the pur- | | organized labor In the halls of legisla- ton, national and state, and to aid in en- | forcing the laws against pieketing and l boycotting. To prevent it's members from being boycotted because they belong to the association the strlctest secrecy is maintained as to It's personnel, but 1t Is well known as being one of the largest and most influential organizations of the kind in the country and as having an ex- .1x- manufacturers, merchants and contrac- tors.
 Strong in New England.
 It is especially strong in Massachu- l setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and other New England states, so that MT. Davenport, who has visited thousands of factories In those states within the past | three years Is well qualified to tell the 1 Georgia manufacturers the difficulties un- der which their New England brethren are laboring. and point out the evils which they may escape. For a number of years he has devoted himself to the special study of the legal phases of the labor problem and Is recognized as prob ably the leading authority and speaker in this country on this subject from the standpoint of the employer.
 During the last session of congress the ] anti boycott association took the princi- pal part m opposing the antl-lnJuncuon bill and the national eight hour bill, MT. Davenport's efforts being most ably seconded by Hon. James M. Beck of New York, formerly solicitor general of the | United States, whose speech before the house committee on Judiciary in opposi- tion to the anti-injunction bill was re- garded as a classic by such constitutional lawyers as Representative Iittlefield of Maine. DeArmond of Missouri and others. Mir Dayenport's address hefore the as- sociation will deal with the effects upon the industries of New England. of strikes,