The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-20
PARRY|TES PLAN NEW
DODGE TO kEE0 SCABS
Are celebrating a Comprehensive
Insurance and Benefi-
cial System.
Is Calculated to Hold Together
Bands of Strike Break
ers They Hire.

Cleveland Ohio, May 18.-Max Hayes,
the editor of the Cleveland Citizen is
ever making new discoveries about the
movements of the enemies of organized
labor. In the current issue of the Cit
izen he writes:
The Citizen has received informa-
tion from several sources, and is able
to say that it's statements are based
upon the most reliable authorities,
that the various union smashing asso-
Citations are working out plans on an
elaborate scale to establish employ
ment bureaus and strike busting or
ganizations. The success of Farley in
street railway fights has caused the
leading Parryites to consider a num-
ber of schemes to perfect their ma
chinery to check the growth of unions
or destroy them when struggle oc-
We are told that the employment
bureau idea is not altogether satisfac-
tory, the same having been tested in
the metal trades and one or two other
industries. The mere registering Of
names and promises of steady employ
ment does not appeal to the two
classes Of workers that are depended
upon the break strikes-those who are
actually in need of employment and
the reckless adventures who love the
excitement or have some grudge
against unions or members thereof.
1t has been found that the first class
(the needy workers) are unwilling to
forget their sympathies and desert
their fellows during strikes for mere
job while the second class (the vicious
elemen) are none too fond of work
on general principles and have risks
of professional strike-breakers for the
promise that they will be allowed to
work after the trouble is over. The
latter, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions, cannot be trusted
at critical periods and are as likely as
not to make exorbitant demands when
dare to refuse to grant the same.
Therefore, the leading spirits in the
employers associations are discus
sing the advisability of not only 1mi-
tating the unions by conducting their
employment bureaus, but to supple
ment those agencies with insurance
features, sick and death benefits, and
an out-of-work system.
The advocates of these plans ac-
tually propose to levy regular as
sessment upon all members Of en-
ployers' associat tions to create funds
and guarantee their strike-breakers
certain wage throughout the year
whether they work or not!
t. hot jc
der consideration, according to the
Citizens informants, and it is possible
that, If some of the details are fully
worked out the matter will be brought
to the attention of the coming con-
vention of the National Association
of Manufacturers in Atlanta, Ga.
But whether the scheme is made pub
lie at Atlanta or nOt-and up to the
present it has been guarded with great
secrecy-we are assured that some Of
the affiliated employers associations
intend to give it trial in the near
future.
In this connection the Citizen would
urge the trade unionists of the coun-
try to be on their guard, and to pay
no heed to the rumors that the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
the Citizens Alliance and other anti
union organizations are going to
pieces. and the open shop movement
is dying out. The greatest danger
comes in lulling ones self into fam
cied security, especially at time like
the present, when each day brings
forth some new phase in the great
struggle between the classes.
Only few weeks ago. for example,
President Gompers printed an edi-
torial in the Federationist in which it
was stated in so many words that
Parryism Is on the wane, and this
statement has been repeated by
number of careless observers. But it
was a blunder. The ink was hardly
dry on the paper when the Chicago
struggle began that inaugurated the
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