Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-17
DENIES LABOR
UNIONS ARE
OUTLAWED
CANDIDATE BRYAN is
ACCUSED OF INSINCERITY
President Van CIeave of Ma
tionaI Manufacturers Takes
Issue With Injunction and
Banking PIankS.
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st. Louis, Aug Themes w Van
Cleave, president of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers. today is
sued an answer to a recent reply by
w. j. Bryan to an article by Mr.. Van
Cleave a few weeks ago which point
ed out certain special reasons why, ac-
cording to Mr.. Van Cleave, business
men should vote against Mr. Bryan.
Speaking today he also says for busl-
ness men that the injunction, tariff
and banking planks of the Denver
platform assalls the interests of ev-
cry man in the country who is en-
gagged in any sort of trade.
THE falsity of the insinuation in
the Denver platform that labor un-
ions are outlawed,' Mr., Van Cleave
says, lis shown by the fact that their
members continue In their regular
employments on every working day in
the year in every town in the United
States Every member of the Lin
coin Typographical union, at whose
banquet he was a guest on the even
ing before his formal notification of
nomination, could have told Mr., Bryan
that there is not a vestige of truth in
the pretense that any act of congress
or any ruling Of any federal court
ever forbade any labor union to or
ganize to ask such wages from en-
ployers as the union saw fit to ask, or
to make any terms of employment
which would be agreeable to both par
ties"
He then asks
Does not Mr.. Bryan, as a lawyer
and public man, know that his plat
form charges are false?"
He tells Mr.. Bryan that the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers, like
the courts has always recognized th'
rights of the unions to get any terms
from employers which by amicablt
agreement could be gained, but tina
the association always opposed the in
tlmidation and violence which, he
says, have sometimes been practiced
by some of the unions. Does he per.
sonally favor the legalization Of the
boycott?" Mr.. Van Cleave asks, ant
he adds that the country is interested
in getting a plain, direct answer from
Mr. Bryan on this point and in get
ting it just as correctly as he ear
give it,"
Speaking of the guarantee fund
which the Denver platform urges fol
the payment Of the depositors of in
solvent national or state banks, Mr.
Van Cleave asks:
Does not Mr. Bryan know that
this vicious provision would parali2t
the honest and careful banker for the
benefit of the banker who is dishon-
est and reckless? Can he not see that
this scheme would remove all the
safeguards which our present laws
have raised up against such plungers
and grafters as have worked their way
into the control of many of our banks
that II would Immediately and i'm.
mensely increase the number of such
bankers and that it would precipitatt
an era of extravaganza, wild specula-
tion and corruption which would
wreck our whole financial system?
rs not Mr.. Bryan aware that his
wildcat banking scheme of 1895
would bring chaos and ruin to the
country even quicker and in larger
measure than his silver debasemen
of the currency of 1896 and 19OC
would have brought it?"