The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-23
CAPITAL MUST
 BE COMBINED Same Right to Organize
 as Labor. STARTLING IDEA IN SPEECH James w. Van Cleave of St. Louis Makes Address tn Boston. Would Consolidate Employers Assscia- tions wfth Capital Of Two Bnieu
 Dollars Into Giaesntic Fed-
 eration of Interests.
STARTLING IDEA IN SPEECH

Boston. March 22--Plans for a great federation of all the employing inter ests of the United States, built on the lines of the American Federation of Labor, were advanced in Boston today after a speech by James W. Van C1eave of St Louis, president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
 Mir. Van Cleave startled 800 delegates to the annual convention of the Na- tional Metal Trades Association by de- ciaring capital everywhere must recog- nize labor's rights to organise, this re- cognition being necessary before indus- trial America can hope to reach It's fullest growth.
 The interests Mir. Van Cleave would consolidate for the advancement of fn- dustrial peace and commercial supre- macy represent a capitalization of more than s2,000,oo0. More than billion dollars of this is represented in Mir. Van Cleave's organization, to which he would weld the National Metal Trades. the National Typothetae, the National Founders. the National Wholesale Mer- chant Tailors' Association and other bodies of magnitude.
 Remarks of Van Creave.
 MT. Van Cleave said:
 Both employers organization and la- bor unions have come to stay. Intei- ligent organization among employers Is needed not only to enable us to deal with labor problems promptly and just ly whenever they arise, but also to equip us to strengthen our industrial position at home, so that we can win the constantly expanding markets abroad, which we will need in order to keep our shops busy and to provide labor for our workers.
 "AIl the great national organizations of employers should come together in spirit of mutual fraternity and es- tablish central body in which each would be represented. This body could deal with the interests common to all the organizations. These intesests are not only large in number but titanic in magnitude. Moreover, they are rapidly in expanding in each particular.
 "one of the country's greatest needs at this moment is the diffusion of yedu- cation along sane lines. Social and political quackery should be rendered impossible by insulting into the minds of employers, workers and the general public, ideas which will show them that in the last analysis all their in- terests coincide and injury to any one element in society will react on all.
 Legislation Is Condemned.
 One of the evilA which every or- ganization of employers Is frequently called upon to combat is silly or per- nicious legislation. Fads,a follies and vices manage to register themselves in bills introduced in Congress and the various State Legislatures at every ses- sion. The demagogue and disturber are always with us and they are always active.
 'Tn fighting it's ills each organization now acts separately. Each makes its own experiments and learns it's own lessons from it's own losses and the losses are frequent and humiliating The losses and .humiliations which be- set us now can be avoided only by CO., operation."
 As preliminary 10 settlements which will stay settled. Mir. Van Cleave told the convention, there must be, at the outset, a full and frank recogni- tion of the fact that both capital and labor have duties as well as rights. As an employer, he said that all employ ing interests should act on the assump- tion that If labor leaders will eliminate unlawful and coercive methods they must be reckoncd with as a fixture in America's business life.
 This is an age of concentration combination, consolidation" resumed MT. Van Cleave. Labor has as large an incentive and also as large right to concentrate as has capital and capi- tai must concede thls rlgnL At the same time employers must aid in edu- eating the workers. morally as well as Intellectually, so that they will choose better officers than many of the grafters with which they have been af- flicted in recent years.
 Let us have peace between workers and employers on basis of the recog milton, fully and frankly, of the rights and duties of each"
 Employers must work discreetly. MT. Van Cleave warned, So as not to give opportunity to demagogues to arouse any class prejudices He averred 1t to be to the interest of employers, work CTS and the public generally that the labor leaders abolish all their ignorant and corrupt leaders
 MT. Van Cleave said the diffusion of