The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-03-03
Trades UniOnis1n
And Business ~
BY d. n. PARRY. President National
Association OF Manufacturers

trades unionism should become this country
1 have not the least doubt that OUR INDUSTRIES
WOULD LANGUISH and streets would be filed
@ with idle No other results could possibly from
system that would base the reward of labor not merit
but the power of organization dictate terms, system that
would restrict output discourage enterprise and permit the indolen
AND LEAST EFFICIENT to set the pace for industry Can
present day unonism become dominant this county9 1t my
belief that you would like organized labor obtain
trolling industrial and public affairs all that you need do
fold hands and let the will Under the
do nothing policy of the employers until years ago the growth
of unonim magical Finally with several millions of workers
back of them and flushed with victory because
Der of strikes the leaders assumed DICTATORAL ATTITUDE
toward congress and local authorities seemed
though public opinion ready any demands that the
strike bosses chose make and but hearing the
EMPLOYERS side of any controversy matter how diplomat
ically expressed.
believe that this critical time history Of
try and had the employers abandoned the let alone policy
should today be facing very different condition of affairs from that
confronting We should perhaps have the eight hour and
antnuncion bills the books and principle of PREF
ERENCE TO UNIONISTS in employment, or in other words
the national closed shop would than likely be fair way
adoption But fortunately for the welfare of every
and child in this country there sprang up which
practically spontaneous among the employers for the formation Of
LOCAL associations while such great NATIONAL organizations
the National Association of Manufacturers began gppe with
the problem with energy and determination.
What happened9 There is little need
story Strike after strike ordered only be lost by the union
and great check given trades union aggression from Maine
to California Shop after shop has been opened the
AND PROTECTION HAS BEEN GIVEN against the
sugger of industrial believe that fully 1000
manufacturing establishments have the last year abandoned the
closed shop and thrown their doors open wen without regard
their membership nonmembershp union have been
formed of the of $50 in the city of Chicago
alone that have done this Is that record for THE GREAT
EST HOTBED OF UNIONISM in the country9 From all parts
of the central have received information of hundreds of other
factories being opened independent woren Many
the east have also gone the open shop although must that
the employers movement is stronger in the central than
in the and that results it. The effect of the open
has been particularly beneficial In factories the
OUTPUT PER MAN has been increased from 25 so per
Who assert that this increase output will benefit the toer
well the employers The theory that the less each does the
better every will be is of the absurd doctrines of the union
creed and followed its logical conclusion would produce
of society which NO ONE WORKED and every
cry and naked
INCREASING THE OUTPUT WORKED INJURY
THE WORKERS. THEN ALL MACHINERY SHOULD DESTROYED
FOR EFFECT MACHINERY MULTIPLY INDIVIDUAL
OUTPUT.