The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-29

of legislation, national and state, and
to aid in enforcing the laws against
picketing and boycotting. To prevent
its members from being boycotted be-
cause they belong to the association,
the strictest secrecy is maintained as
to its personnel, but ii is we'll known
as being one of the largest and most
influential organizations of the kind in
the country and as having an extern
sive membership among the leading
manufacturers, merchants and con-
tractors. 1t is especially strong in
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Is
land and other New England States, so
that Mr.. Davenport, who has visited
thousands of factories in those states
within the past three years, is we'll
qualified to tell the Georgia manufac-
turers the difficulties under which
their New England brethren are la
boring, and point out 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 proba-
bly, the leading authority and speaker
in this country on this subject from
the standpoint Of the employer.
Oppose Labor LegtsIatiOn.
During the dast session of Congress
the Anti-Boycott Association took the
III 4ilNlktd ldslA Al OBpOS41lS sullS dIlll~lAl-
junction bin and the national eight
hour bill. Mr. Davenport's efforts be-
ing most ably seconded by Hon. James
NJ. Beck of New York, formerly So
licftor general of the United States,
whose speech before the House Com
niittee on Judiciary in opposition to
the anti-injunction bill was regarded
as a classic by such constitutional law
yers as Representative Littlefield of
Faf M A,.v,, 80 nv,I
others.
Mr. Davenport's address before the
association will deal with the effects
upon the industries of New England of
strikes lockouts and boycotts, legisla-
ton restricting hours of labor in mills
and factories, the rules of union labor
limiting apprentices and output and
other kindred subjects.
To Prevent Labor Troubles.
The Georgia Industrial Association
has been among the foremost organ
izations in the South in preventing
labor troubles and taking cognizance
or such questions far enough in ad-
vance to escape the perils which threat
Ell the very existence of the New Eng
land manufacturers. Mr.. Frederick B.
Gordon of Columbus. president of the
association, is himself native of Mas
sachusetts, who came to Georgia twen-
tv years ago to engage in the manufac-
ture of cotton there. because he fore
saw that in the older manufacturing
center labor disputes would inevitably
drive capital to fresh fields nearer the
source of supply.
What we need in the South is laws
to make people work. and not laws TO
make them idlers," he said recently.
The entire world looks TO the South
for the bulk of it's cotton. Twelve mil
lion bales will be required to meet the
demand this coming year. and the
South is going to try to produce it.
The greatest obstacle in the way is
lack OF labor. Capital is pouring in
for the development of her vast nat
ural resources, and we want no disturb
ing legislation. Our conditions are en-
tirely different from those of some of
the older and more thickly settled
states. The manufacturers of cotton
goods in Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land are so severely hampered by laws
applying strictly to the cotton mills,
which is purely class legislation, that
those of us in the South who are ia
miliar with the operations If those laws
are going to use every effort 10 be freed
from legislation of that kind"
GeOrgia's Position.
Fuller E. Galloway. secretary and