The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-22
INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE
TO TAKE STRONG STAND
AGAINST 0-HOUR BILL
Delegates Representing Hundreds
OF Bodies Assemble Here for
Final Organization.
TO REVISE CONSTITUTION
Articles OF Formation Will Be
Ratified with but Few
Changes.
d. NJ. PARRY WILL PRESIDE
Local Manufacturer the President
to Direct Meetings of 400
Members at Claypool.
TO REVISE CONSTITUTION
D. NJ. PARRY WILL PRESIDE

over two hundred delegates Of the Cit
liens Industrial Association of America
which meets in convention at 10 o'clock this
morning in the assembly hall at the Clay
pool Hotel. arrived in this city yesterday.
Delegations came in from Omaha, Kansas
City, Minneapolis, st. Paul, st. Louis, Bos-
ton, Cleveland and many other points. 1t
is expected that the full attendance of the
convention will exceed five hundred dele
gates, representing over one hundred and
fifty cities and four hundred associations.
The convention will be in session two
days, during which the association will be
permanently organized, plans for the future
will be made and action will be taken along
different lines pertaining to industrial af-
fairs.
d. NJ. Parry, president of the associa-
ton, will preside over the convention.
The industrial association was formed
Oct. 20 and 80 last at preliminary meeting
in Chicago Its purpose is to federate all
local. district. state and national organiza-
tiOns which have for their object the meet
ing of labor conditions. At the Chicago
meeting a tentative organization ef-
fected. The constitution adopted was ac-
cepted with the understanding that it was
to be finally passed upon at the convention
which meets here to-day.
SATISFIED WITH CONSTITUTION.
At the Chicago meeting there was diverg-
ence of opinion among the delegates as to
the possibility of fusing together the strictly
employers associations which are very COM
mon in the East, and the Citizens Alliance,
which is more popular in the far West. The
Citizens Alliance admits all classes of citi-
zens to membership, while the employers
associations restrict its membership to the
employing classes.
Each of the forms of organization have
their special advocates. and this was the
cause of the difference of opinion, which
developed at the Chicago convention.
The constitution, however which ac-
cepted conditionally seems to have been
satisfactory to both employers associations
and citizens alliances, and ii Is not likely
that important changes will be made in it,
although its revision is one of the principal
matters which Will be brought up In the
convention.
The national body does not interfere in
any way with the internal government or
politics of its constituent members. The
delegates say both the Citizens Alliance
| same objects in view and there is no rea-
son why the National Association should
not admit both.
The headquarters of the convention are
at the Claypool Hotel and yesterday after
noon the delegates assembled in the palm
room for an informal discussion of various
matters relating to organized work.
Considerable dissatisfaction was ex-
pressed over the effort of Senator Nc
Comas. chairman of the Senate committee
on labor, who. ii has been announced, will
insist upon a favorable report on the eight
hour bill without permitting employing in
terests to be heard by the committee.
OBJECT TO EIGHT-HOUR BILL.
1t seemed to be the sentiment Of the ma
jority of the delegates that the convention
should take a very strong position in con-
nection with the eght-hour bill and to re-
quest in the most urgent manner that no
action be taken by the Senate committee
until the employers shall have had .
chance TO be heard.
The convention will be absolutely opposed
to the passage of the so-caled anti-injunc-
tion measure now pending in Congress. The
anti-iniunction bill is now being advocated
by organized labor which hopes to secure
its passage. The bill is designed to take
away from the courts of equity the power
to issue injunctions in labor disputes. 1t
| has passed the lower branch of Congress
three times in succession. In the last Con-
| gress, upon reaching the Senate, it was
amended by Senator Hoar to read that
| nothing in the bill should be considered as
giving any one the right Ito make attack
| upon property or to commit breaches of
peace"
This amendment proved to be objection
| able to the advocates of the measure, and
| the attempt to pass the bill in amended
form was abandoned. The employers de-
| clare that the anti-cOnspiracy bill is one
of the most dangerous measures ever of
fered for passage in Congress-. and they
say they will oppose il to the last ditch.
| They insist that the injunction bill is
nothing more nor less than a proposal to
| lawlessness. Immediately upon the adj
| journment of the convention a large dele
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