The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-24

fCo,yright, 1904, by Frank c. Carpenter.)
 New York. The trades union men of the United States look upon David M. Parry, the president of the National Association of Manufacturers, as an enormous bull. an overgrown golden calf, which is dashing about in the china shop of the labor or ganizations slfattering the images. They call him a bloated capitalist with horns, and think he is seventeen feet high and weighs a ton. The real David M. Parry measures five feet six inches, and he tips the beam at just one hundred and twenty five pounds. If he has horns I have not discovered them. His black hair is we'll brushed back from a high forehead, his dark face is smooth shaven and his eyes are as gentle and his voice as suave as that of any business man I know.
 Three Thousand Factories. MT. Parry has made himself noted as the chief antagonist of organized labor in the United States. He has no use for labcr unions in any shape. and he does not hesitate to say so. He not only op- poses them himself, but he is now. the president of the Manufacturers Associa- ton, which has a membership of 1000 of the leading factories and corporations Of this country, covering every part of the United States. He tells me that they represent Cdpltdl TuHHlHS uiBtt thC billions of dollars and that each pays $50 a year to the association as membership dues. The association largely represents the anti-union sentiment of the country, although I venture many of its members would not indorse views so radical as those of MT. Parry.
 It was in the offices of the association that I met. MT. Parry. had come for an interview, and he answered my uues- tions at once. Said he:
 "vou ask me why I oppose organized labor. I do it because as it exists in the United States it ;, is revolutionary. It makes the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution obsolete documents and declares all offus who are so old fashioned as to believe in individual lib- erty the oppressors of labor and the ene- mics of the race believe many of the labor leaders would Cuillotine us If they could"
 Organizd Labor as a Mob.
 That is rather strong language, Mir. Parry" said I.
 'Yes. but I believe in calling things by their right names. Organized labor as 1t now is is standing mob engaged in acts of open rebellion against the government. It defies the constituted authorities and tries to nullify individual and property rights. Each rebellion is worse than that
  its object, and I think it is high time the country was waking up to the fact
 Why, look at it." MT. Parry went on. ''We have had a series of labor insurrec- tions during the past year known as strikes. in which tlIe unions have tried to force their authority by mob law. They denounce the government officials who try tn restrain them, they are keeping their members out of the militia, and they have even attempted to make the Presi- dent of the United States violate his oath of office to please them. Tn theircrusade against the exercise of individual rights, they have clustered, threatened, assault ed and murdered. They even threaten helpless women and children. know the leaders of the labor unions will disclaim responsibility for such crimes, but they are nevertheless the accomplices of the brutal and ignorant men whom they have melted to commit such outrages."
 The Views of Workingman.
 What right have you to speak against labor, MT. Parry?" said I. Have you evor been a workingman yourself?"
 "I have the right of both a working man and an employer" was the reply. 1T have worked all my life, and l work now. l began to work on the farm as a boy, and know all about farm work. from the digging of post-holes to hauling ma nure. I have clerked in a store, sold goods on the road and had hardware store of my own. I am no an employer of labor, having several thousand hands; I am also a consumer, and every man has right to discuss matters in which he is so vitally interested"
 How about working at a trade? Do you know anything of mechanics?'
 'I make buggies and I understand ev erythfng connected with my business and have worked at every branch of it"
 Could you set a wagon tire?"
 "I have set thousands of them. I have worked with my men, and think I know something of the workingmen of the United States It is not right to look upon the unions as representing Ameri- can labor. for S5 per cent of our workmen do not belong to them. I am a friend of the workingman, but not of him as a trades unonist."
 How One Man Was Boycotted.
 Have you had any personal experi ences with unions in your work?"
 If you mean in my factory I have not, I have always run an open shop, and so far the unions have refrained from mak- Ing any demands upon me in my capacity Rs an employer. Since have been de- nouncing their methods, however, I have had one little experience which shows