The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-17
An Important Meeting.

An Important Meeting.
Announcement is made of meeting
in this city, on Nov. 20 and 80, of the
Citizens Industrial Alliance. This body
was organized in October, 1908, by a
combination of many local organizations
or declarations of employers. Stated
briefly, its aims are:
First. to assist by all lawful and practical means
| the properly constituted authorities OF the State
and nation In maintaining and defending the su.
prcmacy OF the law and the rights OF the citizen
Secondly. to assist all the people OF America
In resisting encroschnents on their Constitutional
rights.
Thirdly to promote and encourage harmonious
| relations between employers and their employees
on basis of equal Justice 10 both.
Pourthiy TO assist local. State and national
associations OF manufacturers and employers In
their efforts TO establish and maintain Industrial
peace and TO create and direct public sentiment
In opposition all forms OF violence, coercion and
Intimidation.
Filthy, to foster and encourage by legitimate
means enterprise and freedom In management OF
| Industry"
ttC iCoOlutlOlHo ddolJtCu at tiIc
time Of the national organization there
appear the following:
Resolved That In carrying on firm and up.
compromising contest with the abuses now
constituted aud conducted. at the same time &C.
knowiedging tho FREQ hight of workr,en to COM
btne. and admitting that their combinatlon, when
rightly constituted and conducted. may prove
! highly useful we earnestly desire 70 act and be-
lieve We are acting. in the true interests of the
workmen themselves: for our welfare Is insepar
able from theirs. and theirs from ours: arc os
sentially interdspendent: each 10 indispensabiy
necessary the other and those who stir up strife
between us are enemies Of mankind.
Resoleed. Tint the Citizens Industrial Asso.
citation Of America Is In earnest sympathy with
every movement In she Interest Of labor Believing
that there can be national prosperity where the
working masses are ground down In hopeless pow.
erty and ignorance, we hold the happlest Of all
the results Of the great Industrial revolution achieved
in the last half century and the greatly advanced
and improved conditions Of the workingmen OF
the present day"
To such aims and principles it would
seem impossible to take exception. 1t
is therefore unfortunate that the Ameri-
can Federdtionist, in an editorial comment
on the Alliance in it's issue Of January,
1904, should have seen fit to attack it with
snarls and sneers; to denounce its presi-
dent Mr.. d. M. PARRY Of indianapolis,
as the capitalist agitator and ranter,"
and to assail its motives with almost
unrestrained vituperation. That official
organ Of unionism declares that behind
these resolutions there is a hostile,
aggressive, fanatical purpose. Refer
ring to the foregoing aims, the Fed
erdtionist declares one to be ridiculous"
another to be "of little Value and a
third to be "a cant phrase which will be
echoed by the unthinking.
A far more sane and commendable
attitude is taken by another trade union
paper, called the Union Label. That
paper says, in its issue Of August, 1904:
BY all means, the employers should continue TO
organize. Trade unlonlsts will encourage them to
do 50, despite the extreme antagonlsm shown by
men like PARRY and a handful OF others who would
deny that human beings had any rights except
divinely bestowed. The rank and file OF American
employers are Just. and Il Is In this spirit trade
unionists encourage their organizing. In many
Instances collective bargoulng between well or
gani1ed employers and employees regarding trade
agreements. wage scales and other questions have
been adjusted in an eminenty satisfactory manner
to both parties. for strongly organized employers
and employees usually have great respect one for
the other.
Good luck TO employers associations. We wei.
come them as necessary under present economic
conditions. calm careful dlspassionate consid-
Grafton OF the rights OF employer and employed will
bring about solutions OF what now appear dlfilcut
problems"
The general antagonism to Mr. PARRY
is due to the fact that he has been very
outspoken in his denunciation of some
of the methods employed by labor
unions in the attainment Of their ends.
Mr.. COMPRESS wrath and indignation
are evidently reused by any mention of
the name OF Mr.. PARRY. He writes edi-
torials about him and calls him -capi-
talist anarchist The professed policy
Of the Alliance, and the ground taken by
the Union Label, which 'bespeaks pa
thence and conservatism in these trying
times offer far more encouragement
for "a happy issue out OF all our Attic
tons than the bandying of hard names,
an attitude of distrust and suspicion,
and persistent antagonism.
Criticism OF the Alliance is maniiestly
premature. There will be time for that
should it, at the coming meeting assume
Il t,,l.