The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-05-07
PARRY WILL RESIGN AS
HEAD OF LABOR HATERS
STRIKE OF INDEPENDENTS IN HIS
OWN PLANT THE CAUSE.

1t Is Said That the Leader Of the Manu-.
facturers Association Has Become
Dissusted.-WelI Known That Inter.
est in the Citizens Alliance Is Dimin.
ishing-Empioyers Don't Get Returns
as They Would Like Them.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 5.-Max Hayes,
the leading labor writer of the coun-
try is authority for the statement that
Parryism is dying. In this weeks let
ter he asks the question:
Is the Citizens Alliance fad on the
wane? That question seems to be an
sWered in the affirmative by two facts
that come under our observation. The
first is that the report has gone out
that Mr.. David M. Parry intends to re-
linqush leadership of the would-be
trade union smashers.
In all proba bility the strike of 'lOyal
and independent workingmen in his
own establishment against Mr.. Parry's
systematic wage cutting has disgusted
thai gentleman. The very idea that
those ungrateful persons, whom he has
furnished with work and protected
from the tyranny" of the labor organ
refusing to take less money for their
toll is obnoxious to any tender hearted
phlanthropist of the Parry stripe, and
if he abandons my men" to their fate
they will have ouly themselves to
blame.
The second fact is that the writer
learned while in Dayton the past week
that Mr.. Marshall, one of the leaders
of the Parryites, confided to a manu-
facturer that interest in the Citizens
Alliance is decreasing very materially.
Mr.. Marshall was unable to account
for such condition. Whereas year ago
he was swamped with inquiries about
the workings Of the alliance and had
little difficulty in securing funds, at
present there are very few capitalists
who seek information, and while they
receive the literature that Is sent out
they are unusually negligent in the
matter of forwarding dues, contribu-
tions etc.
The manufacturer who was given this
information was formerly an active
worker in Parry organization, but he
started to reason out for himself the
consequences of the triumph Of the
union-smashing campaign. He called a.
prominent Dayton Socialist and trade
discouraging statement made to him
by Mr.. Marshall and declared that he,
was beginning to see the danger of
destroying the unions. ts.S .s..ss
..z.. While my interests "a aY. notsbe siden.sy
tical With yours, said the Smanufac-s
turer substantially, "yet can UNDER
stand that If Parry, Kirby and Mar
shall have their own way, succeed in
disrupting the labor organizations and
reducing wages, the working man will
not be able to purchase as many COM
modities as formerly, and hence busi-
ness is bound to suffer. In other words,
this campaign would react on u.s.
He recited the fact that at the In
dianapolis convention of the Citizens
Alliance the capitalists who attended
were in perfect accord with the aim of
the coal operators who were at that
time agitating reduction of wages.
The reduction took place. And now"
he said, 1--WE can't sell as much goods
10 the miners as formerly, and If we
succeed in enforcing similar conditions
in all the industries where do we get
off? Some of US are bound to go bank
rupt, while perhaps others will prosper
at our expense"
While this gentleman is undoubtedly
economy we are not particularly inter-
ested in his troubles with his own
friends and competitors of his class
The thing that gives us satisfaction is
the knowledge that the loud-mouthed
agitators of the Parry Kirby stripe are
beginning to bump up against some
problems that never before entered
their thick skulls.
1t is a very easy and perhaps pleasant
matter for those wreckers to sit about a.
banquet board and prate of their DOW
er; it is not difficult to string together
long harangue of platitudes and
meaningless terms and wax more or
less eloquent to the tuneful pop of
corks from champagne bottles But
even if they could have their way
which will by no means happen-they
would still have some very grave cues
tions that could not be lodged under
any circumstances.
1t is none Of our business to point out
dangers to the enemy: let them ram
their heads against the stonewalls of
their own capitalist system Of produc-
tion to their hearts content. It is for
us, the workers, to maintain our Or
ganiZations and be ready for any at
tack. Whether the cheap drunk" of
Parryism wears off or continues a
while longer is of little consequence.
We. also, have now problems to meet.
and without strongly entrenched un-
ions, without solidarity and discipline,
we are helpless.
If Parryism disappears. rest assured
some other excrescence will rise in its
place in Industrial and governmental
affairs. This is natural and logical so
long as labor is not master of the situ-
alton and the capitalistic profit sys-
tenn lasts.