Arizona republican., 1906-11-28
DEMAND 10 BE MADE
 FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
The Chief Subject of Discussion at the Coming Convention of the Citizens Industrial Association.

Chicago, November 2S Special Cor respondence to The Republican,. - A demand for the establishment of in dustrial schools throughout the United States is to be voiced in Chicago. Dec ember and 4. during the fourth an- nual convention of the Citizens Indus trial Association of America The as- sociation. which has stood steadfast for the principle of the "open shop" in labor and against trusts" of either labor or capital. will also devote much attention to checking tendencies toward socialism and the development of class interests in politics and industry. It is expected that between 500 and 700 del- egates. representing organizations from Maine to California, will take part in the conventions deliberations
 The question of trade, schools will arise as a result of the recent com pletion of research into industrial con- idtions of American cities. It is de- clared the inquiry showed that the re- striction of apprentices in the skilled trades under union regulations has reached a point where the mechanic is not merely degeneGating. but dying, and that the opportunity for a poor boy to learn a trade in America is becoming poorer every day. The association plans a campaign to give young men and boys opportunities to learn tradea for which they may have natural ap- titude and inclination.
 The Citizens Industrial Association q l. r,s. fo,, 1s 1f hot 300 and 400 industrial bodies, national and local It includes the National As sociation of photographers, the Typo thetae (National Association of Elm ! ploying Printers), the National Asso- ciation of Master Bakers. the Merchant Tailors National Protective Associa ton. the National Association Of Err ectors. being an organization of inter ests engaged in the manufacture and erection of structural steel, and various others.
 | Besides the national organizations affiliated the associations membership includes a great number of local asso. citations scattered through the country from Seattle to Mobile. Ala, and from Houston. Tex. to Boston. Recently | along the Pacific Coast. where there exists a federation of alliances reach ing from Los Angeles to Tacoma, in cluding Portland and all important coast cities.
 The idea of the association planning ] to convene at the Auditorium hotel or December 3 has been to form a third great party. the public, whether em. ployers or employees, to protect its members from abuses that may arise | from the misuse of power by organized capital or organized labor. In fact according to James A. Emery of New
 York, secretary of the association. mos
 of its members. taken in the mass, ar employees.
 The citizens association movemen
 has reached it's highest development perhaps. in St. Louis. where the loca association has 10000 members. Th' St. Louis organization. in common witt
 those in other cities. has stood for pre- vention of strikes and boycotts. and |
 is claimed. has built up so strong l; public feeling that in the last two year
 strikes attended by violence have beel
 practically unknown in the Missour metropolis.
 The St. Louis association give
 monthly lectures in the largest theate
 in St Louis on industrial subjects
 with attendances at these session
 ranging from 5000 to 5000.
 We are against all trusts and mon
 opolies," said Charles W. Post of Bat
 tie Creek. Mich. president of the asso
 citation, in announcing plans for tn
 convention. We regard the tenden
 cies of modern unionism. with excep
 tion of that splendid association form
 ing the Railway Brotherhood. to be a
 endeavor to establish a truse in labol just as we have had examples of cor porations endeavoring to establish trust in materials. The oil or beef 0 steel trusts aim by controlling suppl and production to regulate the pric of its product, so the American Fedora tion of Labor would control and linn labor. in many cases restricting mem bership of unions and restricting ap prenticeship everywhere It would us its power to prevent the sale of the la bor of any but it's own members. Thi is an endeavor to form a labor trus or monopoly. which in many iocalitie is just as complete as any corporal monoply that has ever existed"
 At this years convention the discus