The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-09-23
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS
NOTABLE EvENTs or, INTEREST
= TO WAGE FARMERS. J,
Parry's Association of Manufacturers
Observation-Disclosures Boycott on
American Goods. Originated in this

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Parry's National Association of Manu-
facturers has been Incorporated under
the laws Of New York state. Accord
ing to the papers that were filed last
week, the association is a highly philan-
thropic and patriotic institution, and
such things as battering unions to
pieces and cutting wages to the pauper
level as Parry has done are not thought
of. The N. A: M. has been formed
'for the betterment Of relations be-
tween employer and employee. the pro-
lection of individual liberty and rights
of employe and employer, the education
Of the public in the principles Of in
dividlal liberty and ownership Of prop
erty,s the support of legislation in fur
therance Of those principles and Of op-
position to Legislation in derogation
thereof" ~.
A Washington dispatch says it is
charged directly that the boycott Of
American goods in China was suggested
In and engineered from this country
through an agreement made between
capitalists opposed to union labor and
WI Ting Fang, former minister from
China, and the man known to have sug-
gested to his own countryman the pres
ent discrimination against American
importations. 1t il added that since
Roosevelt's order that the exclusion.
laws be less stringently enforced there
has been startling increase of Chin
csc immigration, and thousands Of bus
ir1ess men," ''students'' and travellers"
are f1ocking into the country. It IL an
easy matter to- purchase picks and
shovels after they are here.
The. bill to extend some relief to the
unemployed working people in Eng
land was forced through Parliament
although somewhat 1nutilated. It was
bitter pill to the old party politicians.
who would much rather have passed a
bill to hand. over few million more to
the idle rich. J. Kerr Hardie and Will
Crooks. the two labor members, made
the fight, and. now the workingmen
are asking themselves what they could
have done if they had had forty or fifty
men in Parliament. And as con-
sequence they are working all the hard
er to elect more OF their numbers at
the coming elections.
The penal code Of the state Of New
York was amended at the last session
of the legislature so as to prevent
and employees. The act is modelled up.
on a similar Massachusetts statute Of
1904 and is designed to stop the giving
CT receiving Of gifts, commiss' ons or dis
counts on the theory that such ac-
ton may influence an agent or employe
to act contrary to his employers in
terests. Last year the legislature made
it crime to bribe a. representative of
a labor organization. How these. laws
will be interpreted is another question.
Another university professor has
broken out and if not more careful he
will soon have to take to the soap box
to voice his free opinions, Prof. John
H. Gray. Of the chair, Of political econ
omy in Northwestern University, says:
II am not in :favor Of murder, but give
us the labor union with all It's brutality
and all its lawlessness rather than a
continuation Of the evils under which
the workmen Of to-day are compelled
to labor. :-sz>< '~ =.
Militia officials Of Utah are COM
planning that workingmen are quitting
the National Guard Of that state ever
since the soldiers were order out to
assist the Utah Fuel Co., a Rockefeller
concern, in its fight against the miners.
John @. Cannon was the commander
and he has turned out as CRATER.
Why wouldn't they quit?
The Municipal Employers Associa-
ton of Great Britain Is carrying on a
vigorous agitation for higher wages,
decreased hours of labor and gener-
ally better conditions OF employment.