The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-02
PARRY C0NVERTED?.
SAYS LABOR ORGANIZATION
RIGHTLY CONDUCTED ARE
GOOD THING.
This Is Wonderful Admission for Him
-He Must Have Seen "A Great
Light"-says tho Manufacturers'
Association Is Not Against tho Or
9anization Of Labor.

New York, May 16-The 18th annual
convention Of the National Association
rot Manufact Of the United States
began today at the Waldorf Astoria.
President D. M. Parry of Indianapolis,
Ind, was the presiding officer. In his
annual report he said in part:
1.-The industrial era has developed so
| rapidly that it would have been sur
prising had society adjusted itself to
the new conditions without friction and
| agitation. While the accumulation Of
| capital is essential to the general well
! fare, yet the visual evidence Of it's &C.
| emulation appear to have a baneful
| effect on certain elements OF the po-
pulation, inflaming their minds with
the lust for its possession and causing
them to regard it as the legitimate
spoils of social warfare.
| Some endeavor to help themselves
from the capital fund by using their
wits-that is, dishonestly-and some
rely on sheer physical force to encom-
pass their ends. refer to the CAPT.
talistic buccaneers that reap the ques-
tionable personal profit by the manip-
ulation Of the capital they control re-
| Va
stockholders. also refer to the
buccaneers that follow the red flag of
socialism and would conf1scate all the
wealth In the name of the state. Also
there are the radical trade unionists
with their business" creed that en-
ployers and society at large must
accede to their arbitrary demands or
suffer the stoppage Of industry.
| organizations inimical to the coun-
try's welfare make counter organiza-
ton imperative. A propaganda Of evil
is to be neutraltzed only by a propa-
ganda Of good. Organized effort to
keep public officials from enforcing the
law must be met by an organized effort
Of an opposite character"
! "The necessity for effective work for
the protection Of individualism is ap-
parent all over the country and the
only method for the accomplishment
Of this work is thorough. organization.
It should be our purpose to develop
this work Of organization to the fullest
possible degree. Much has been done
already, but much yet remains to be
done. -.
1T is a mistake to assume that this
movement for organization is directed
against organized labor az such. La
Dor organizations rightly conducted
have a wide field of usefulness In
broadening the minds Of labor and In
promoting good citizenship, but they
must learn that they cannot arrogate
to themselves license to override the
liberties Of others or to stop the wheels
Of industry at their pleasure. They
| must be taught the limitations Of their
power and reform themselves into
agencies for good instead of evil:
| Corporations are needful agencies
in cheapening and enlarging produc-
ton, and their formation and Develop
ment should be encouraged. Neverthe-
! les the managers of corporations must
come to recognize that they have no
license to rob the public for the benefit
Of the stockholders or to rob the stock
holders for the benefit Of themselves.
It is robbery of the public when they
seek by the use of certain unfair de-
vices to stifle competition and charge
the prices Of monopoly. 1t is robbery
of the stockholders when they use the
capital of the corporation to further
their own interests and an example of
which was furnished us by some of
those lately in charge Of the great in
surance companies, only instead of
stockholders 1t was in this case the
policyholders who were despoiled.
1.-The efforts Of some of those in con-
troll of corporations to secure profits
which neither they nor the corpora
| tons have justly earned have given
rise to the demand for government con-
troll of cornOrations but government