The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-30

Influential organization of it's kind in | the country and as having an unusu- | ally extensive membership among the | leading manufacturers. merchants and contractors. It is especially strong | in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. and other New England States, so that Mir. Davenport, who has vis- tied thousands of factories in those States in the past three years. is well | qualified to tell the Georgia manu- lecturers the difficulties under which their New England brethren are labor | ing and point out evils which they may avoid. For a Lumbber of years he has
 devoted himself to making a special study of all the legal phrases of the
 labor problem. and Is recognized as. 1 probably the leading authority and | speaker on this subject in this country from the standpoint of the employers. During the last session of Congress the Anti-Boyeott Association took the | principal part in opposing the Anti Injunction Bill and the National Eight Hour Bill. Mir. Davenport's eff forts being most ably seconded by Hon. James M. Beck, of New York, formerly I Solicitor General of the United States. whose speech before the House Com l mittee on Judiciary in opposition to the Anti-Injunction Bill was regarded as a classic by such constitutional lawyers as Representative Littlefeld, of Me, De Armond. of Mo. and others. MT. Davenport's address before the | Association will deal with the effects upon the industries of New England of strikes. iockouts. and boycotts, legis- lation restricting the hours of labor in mills and factories, the rules of union labor limiting apprentices and output, and other Kindred topics, and, as in ad : dition to being thoroughly conversent with his subjects, ne is polished ora tor of force and vigor, his address should prove unusually interesting. That the South Is keenly alive to the importance of preparing to meet, soon- CT or later, the same problems which
 have confronted the Northern manu- lecturers is shown by their pleas be- fore Congressional Committees ito be let alone" The Georgia Industrial Association has been among the foremost organi-
 zations in the South in preventing labor troubles and taking cognizance of such questions far enough in advance to es- cape the perils which threaten the very existence of the New Englapd manu- lecturers Mir. Frederick B. Gordon, of
 Columbus, Georgia, President of the Association, is himself native of Mas sachusetts who went to Georgia twenty years ago to engage in the manufact- ure of cotton there because he fore-
 saw that labor disputes in the older
 manufacturers state would Inevitable drive capital to fresh fields nearer the source of supply.
 "What we need in the South fig laws
 to make people work and not laws to make them idlers," he told Senator
 McComas' Committee. "Thc entire
 world looks to the South for the bulk
 of its cotton. Twelve million bales
 will be required to meet the demand
 this coming year. and the South is go- ing to try to produce 1t. The greatest
 obstacle in the way Is lack of labor.
 The pampered plumber of Washington
 may want an eight hour day. but the
 hungry cotton picker of the South does not. The former meas ares lnia wstft pg the sietyp minutes; the latter by tho hundred pounds. When Georgia wants shorter working hours public sentiment will enact a law to meet its requir- mcnts No one in the South wants a dwarfed labor day. Capital is pouring
 fin for the developments of her vast natural resources and we want no dis turbing Legislation. Our conditions are entirely different from those of
 some of the older and more thickly settled States. The manufacturers of cotton goods in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are so severely hampered
 by laws applying strictly to the cotton mills, which is pureley class Legislation 1 that those of us in the South who are familiar with the operations of thos
 laws are going to use every effort to be freed from legislation of that kind"
 The New England manufacturer is not behind the Southerner in recogniz- ing the advantages of the South in
 having comparatively unrestricted la-
 Dor if not an unlimited supply of the same, and Massachusetts has headed a movement to bring about the adoption of a constitutional amendment giving power to the United States government to regulate. throughout the entire country, the hours of labor 10 the end that conditions shall be equalized and all the various industries conduct their operations on the same terms A reso- lution for such an amendment has been introduced by Representative Lowering, | of Massachusetts
 Commenting on this fact Fuller E. Galloway, of Lagrange, Georgia. d member of the Georgia Industrial As-
 sociation, said: We have no object Ions to the public in Massachusetts
 making any laws that they may see fit.
 If they want to walk on their heads,
 or their hands. that is their business. ! We do not ODJecI tO UT OhOE any CIlti- cism of what they do in any other state. We are in nice shape and we
 want to continue so. If they have
 made mistakes up in the North, why
 we are late getting into the game and
 we ought to improve our conditions by profiting by the mistakes the other | fellows have made. Massachusetts is something like the fox that had his tail cut off and then wanted all the | foxes to have their tails cut of because
 he thought 1t was the style. I'm sor-
 " for the man who has his tall cut orf hut I don't want to join him. A
 great many of the manufacturers Of Wassanhusetts are building mills in
 Georaia and that is where they are
 making their dividends. What we hope to do in cur country Is to profit bv the errors that have bean made
 This question will be thoroughly dis
 cussed at the coming meeting of the
 Association by Messrs. Davenport Gordon and others and the discussion
 Unl doubtless attract wide attention
 in New England and throughout the South.
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