The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-30
Severely Arraigned at Industrial
Convention in New York
lit SHOULD Be CRUSHED
"cRiME FOLLOWS LABOR UNION
WHEREVER TT SECURES a
FooTHoLD,r DECLARES
PRESIDENT VAN
CLEAvE.
By the Assoclated Prkss.

/
/ New York, Nov. 29- Presid,nt Val
Clesye of ST. Louis. addressed tht
convention Of the Industrial associa
tion today. He first explained The
plan and scope Of the ass Dciation
which, he said. stands for Industrial
peace and the enforcement of law
Existing conditions he declared TO be
intolerable and dangerous. Men you
employ" said he. are serving walk
ing delegates and shop stewards and
not you. The walking delegate and
shop steward employ whom they
please, without consulting yoa. It's
up TO you 10 destroy the boycott.
Crime follows labor unions wherever
i secures foothold"
Van Clcaye said sl7OO0,0OO was
paid into the treasures of labor
unions every year and that the lar
gest part of this money was used to
pread soeialistic doctrines through
out the country.
Van Cleave urged the delegates TO
organize by crafts and stand together.
BY this means, he said, industrial
peace could be secured within a year
He declared the employer who adver
tises in union newspapers or buys
goods bearing union labels by doing
80, is contributing To campaign funds
)f the enemy and is therefore false to
ais fellows.
G, w. Post of Battle Creek. Mich.,
told of an Industrial war in his own
city which, he said, had been. settled
in the right way. ''industriai Peace, Z
was the subject OF his address. He
said that industrial peace now OBJ.
iains in Battle Creek and that the cit
izens of that city are ready to offer
a guarantee of freedom from strikes.
iockouts and labor warfare to manu-,
iacturers desiring to locate where
hey will be free from disturbance
and the gemral warfare of labor
unions
was the subject Of a paper read by J.
e. Craig. president of the State Citi.
zens' Alliance of Colorado Craig
said the Citizens Alliance was the
outgrowth of a desire upon the part
OF the public for industrial peace and
steady employment of labor TO the
end that industry might no: be dis
turbed. The purpose of the Citizens
alliance was not to antagonize union
ism or TO destroy unions, but only to
resist unions insofar as their meth.
DDS are oppressive. unreasonable or
unlawful Craig defended the atti-
tude of the Citizens Alliance in Colo
RADIO and declared the deportation OF
miners from the state was Justified
by circumstances.
THE general sentiment of that
in which rich mine own.
ars, bankers. capitalists and wealthy
from an insignificant item
fully sustains Governor
Peabody" said Craig. 1T was an
unusual situation and required un
usual treatment
Francis c. NuDenmachcr spoke ON
The Liberty of the Press He said, |
n part:
BY the inauguration Of strike |
or an eight hour day January 1st. |
996. the typographical union would
'aralyzc the entire printing industry /
rom one end of the country. to the /
'ther. for they are now engaged in
all smaller cities as rap
dly as IL can be done. SO that there
Fill be no non-union printers to take
heir places in the larger cities.
ITS up to you To make II sure that
ne union will not triumph in this
natter. United typothetae, TO a man,
ill fight il to the end. but, unaided
y their customers it will cost some
their fortunes. Let the union ge.
n eight hour day and YOU know what
ill happen in other lines of indus
ry"
An adjournment was taken until To-
borrow.