The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-06
ENEMY OF THE BOYCOTT
DANIEL DAVENPORT AND HIS WAR
ON OPPRESSIVE UNIONISM.
Georgia Industrial Association Invites
New Highlander to Read 1t Les
son of the Experiences OF
His Section.
Advertiser Bureau,
Colorado Building.

Washington, June D.
Within the past decade southern
orators have frequently interested
Northern audiences with glowing &C
counts of the progress of the new in
dustrial South, but 1t Is very unus-
ual If not an unprecedented. occasion
for a Southern commercial organlza-
ton to invite a New Highlander to read
them q lesson of the experiences OF
their Northern competitors in order
that they may profit by them.
Consequently the action of the Geor"
eia Industrial Association in inviting
Daniel Davenport to deliver the address
of the occasion at the forthcoming an
nual meeting at Warm Springs, Ca
next Thursday, has attracted wide at
tention, in view of the Importance OF
the topics to be discussed and their
bearing on the commercial development
of the South.
Mr.. Davenport was selected for this
honor because his wide acquaintance
ship in New England and his exhaus-
tive investigation of the relations be-
tween the mill owners of that section
and their employees thoroughly htted
him to discuss the subject in high
ly intelligent manner. He is an attor-
ney by profession and the executive
agent of the American Antt-Boycott
Association through force Of ctrcum-
stances
Some years ago he became Interested
in the case of D. E. Loewe & Co, hat
tiers, of Danbury. Conn, not far from
Bridgeport, where Mr.. Davenport lives.
This firm had resisted the efforts OF
the labor organizations to "unionize
their shops and had been boycotted by
them, the American Federation OF La
Dor and substantially all union labor.
SAINT
| throughout the country with the re-
suit that their business and that of a
number Of their customers who stood
| by them was seriously injured. Mr..
Davenport's sympathies were thorough
| ly aroused by the despotic methods en-
! ployed by the Hatters' Union to en-
| force It's demands and he discussed
| them with a number of his friends
among the manufacturers OF Connectl-
cut Massachusetts, and elsewhere with
the result that they induced him To
lay aside his large practice for the
| time and go on a mission to manu1ac-
turers who were susceptible to boycott
! ting and present to them the idea OF
| organizing an association to fight any
| boycott declared against any member
| He travelled for a year or more. Wis
| iting thousands of factories and hndine
! the owners welcoming the idea as q
mutual insurance against the DREADED
| boycott. AS a result the American An
ti-Boycott Association was formed with
Mr.. Davenport as executive agent anc
former Solicitor General James M
Beck. as general counsel, but with the
personnel maintained secret. The plar
of the association is very simple.
When one of its members is boy
cotted the entire strength of the corps
Of attorneys is directed toward secur'
ing the enforcement of the law agains
boycotting. picketing or otherwise in
terfering with the manufacture or SAT-
of its goods. 1t is not generally know
that Alabama, Connecticut, Florida
Georgia. Maine. Mississippi. Missouri
New Hampshire. New York, North Da
kota. Oklahoma, Oregon. South Dakota
Texas and Wisconsin already have law
against boycotting and a strong move
ment is on foot to secure similar leg
islation in other States.
The objects Of the association are 9