The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-01
 DETERMI camp2;<a Against the
 sLabOr Unions. 7 r|sSOLUTI0NSARE ADOPTED
Effort to Increase the Number
 of Apprentices.
John Beattie Tells of Couversatfon With President, But MT. Roose- welt Has Nc Recollection of
 Ever Having Seen Him.

Ever Having Seen Him.
 New York. Nov. 30.--Plans for the organization of the employers of la borers in this country to combat labor unions was considered at todays ses- sion of the Citizens Industrial Asso- ciation convention. Among the sew eral addresses delivered was one by Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport. Conn. executive agent of the American Anti Boycott association. Mir. Davenport's subject was '"rhe Purpose and Work of the American Anti-Boycott Asso-. ciation." It was in the employment bureau of the country that Frederick W. Job, secretary of Sthe Chicago Employers Association found hope of the future settlement of all troubles between em- ployes and employers. To that bu- reau he declared both sides must re- turn in the end to find relief.
 John Beattie, a representative of the Master Painters and Decorators Association speaking of the labor In New York said:
 T don't want you to think that the men of New York are held up with strings willingly or lack sand. We have in this city an organization that has successfully fought the labor un- ions. We organized our association eighteen months ago and made a strong fight We formed an alliance with labor after a lock out lasting | sixteen weeks. winch paralyxed bust. ness Recently I asked President Roose- welt as an American citizen to use his influence to put the responsibility of labor unions and he said:
 That's the thing that is needed" Committee on Resolutions. The report of the committee on res- olutions which was adopted re-af. firmed the objects as adopted at the Chicago and Indianapolis conventions. the citizens industrial convention and again declares for: The open shop. Demanding only good faith and fair dealing, 1t discriminates against neith- CT union nor independent labor s'The freedom of the apprentice and the right of the individual to have a. trade and follow 1t.
 "The right of private contract, with equal obligation upon employer and employees. v
 ''The right to work. limiting the hours of labor. whether of brains or of the hand. Is a matter of mutual agree ment. not a subject for arbitrary legis- lative enactment.
 The enforcement of the law" Continuing. the resolutions say: Whereas, the limitation which the trades union sets upon the number of apprentices in any shop is largely re- sponsible for the disappearance of skilled labor. is destructive of the in- dustry and Is one of the greatest dis turbing factors in the industrial de- velopment of the country. in that it limits the right of the individual to learn a trade. and whereas, the effort made by the employer to increase the number of apprentices in a trade Is necessarily hampered by the above limitations. therefore be it
 Resolved. that the Citizens Indus- trial AssQciation of America recom- mend the establishment by boards of education of artisan schools. under the control and direction of the State. giv- ing & diploma which shall be the evil dence of the right to begin to practice trade.
 Training Schools in shops.
 Resolved, further, that 1t be recom- mended to individual employers so far as practicable to establish training schools in their own shops.
 Whereas organized labor through out the country seems to discourage and practically prohibit membership in
 
 Resolved that this convention con- demns this policy of labor unions as disloyal and dangerous, destroying the natural nucleus of Republican inde- pendence, weakening the attachment of the citizens to the State, impairing a patriotic inspiration to our children and ultimately necessitating an in crease in our standing army, repug- nant to our traditions and institu- tions."
 Wallace Downey. President of the New York Metal Trades Association. said that he was proud of what had been done for the 'open shop in the East. He said: That in it's fights the metal trades association has won all the strikes without the sacrifice of principles. and tn the contracts which followed never agreed to employ union labor only. Our employees have admit ted that they were mistaken and We were right" said MT. Downey. T am not an enemy of labor and want ev- cry laboring man to get fair play. La- bor unions have as much right to ex- ist as your organization.
 Percival Dewitt Oviatt of Rochester. N Y. spoke in part as follows: When the protests and the indignation of either capital or labor. one against the other assume such gigantic and ominous proportions as we see in our country at the present time, men feel vaguely but instictively that crisis is approaching. Two millions and a half of men are banded into one grand army of attack upon principles which have hitherto been free from question. The right to learn a trade. the right to employ q willing servant or to en- ter the service of willing employer. the right to market ones product where one may find a ready market all these have been ruthlessly disre- garded when they imped the lines Of this imaginary progress.
 Let 1t be clearly understood that you are not hostile to such labor or ganizations as attempt to elevate man. kind by proper legitimate means.
 ''Imbued by such ideas and princi- ples. you will be backed by the ap- provai of an interested public, by all save the Civic Federation, an organi- zation which at stated periods holds 8 hanouet Even the most hopeful among you has probably steeled him. self against the sorrow of that fall. ure. That organization approves any such principles as are too general to be of any practical or immediate inn portance and it condemns only those