The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-16
JAMES ". Van CIEAVR DEAD
FiMOUS OPEN SROP ADVOCATE
TAKEN M HEART DISEASE.

pany. Resulted IN Sentence Against
GSmpeTs. mitchell and Morrison.
ST Lows. NAV Isl W. Van Cieave.
stove manufacture died at his home
here at o O'Clock this morning of heart
disease. He had been 10 about three
weeks Of organic heart trouble.
When James Wallace Van Cleavs was
elected TO the presidency Of the National
Association % Manufacturers in 1898 he
was almost unknown. even 10 many
manufacturers. in the field Of what his
Successor. President John X. KIRBY. Jr.,
yesterday termed 'business politics.
Mr. Van Cleave hrst became known 10 the
public at large. when a. president Of the
Bucks Stove and Range Company Of
81. Louis. he Joined forces with D. =.
Loowe Of Danbury and carried through
the courts the fight to restrain President
Samuel Gompers OF the American Fedora
ton OF Labor and ex-Prcsident John
Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison
from interfering with the Bucks Company
and the Danbury hat manufacturers
/ -
publishing a sO-called unfair list
Judge Gould in a decision handed down
after a trial before him in tho equity
branch Of the District Of Columbia FLU
preme Court upheld Messrs. Van Cleavs
and I.oeWe. restraining the Federation.
through lis three officers. from continuing
the publication Of the names Of the com
| g.1a tua h.. H.
GOmpers and tho other defendants kept
the Bucks plant on the unfair list. Mr..
Van Cleave again took up tho FIGHT. with
the result that in December. 1913. Judge
Daniel u y. Wright in the Supreme Court
Of the District Of Columbia. when the
three labor men had been found guilty
OF contempt. sentenced Gompers 20 one
ycsr in Jail and imposed sentences Of nine
Vonths and six months respectively on
Mitchell and Morrison.
The case Of the three labor leaders has
been appealed and IL now before the
supreme Court OF tho United States.
The manufacturers expect that the high
est court will hand down iis decision next
October The labor men N the meantime
are on I on hail
In the course 81 the trial President
Gomrers issued a statement that Mr.. Van
Cleave had been shadOwlng HIM with
detectives and the labor president fol-
| lowed this up with the charge that MIR.
Van Cleave. through Intermediates. had
Onered Gompers a hribe Ia give up the
labor fight and 90 out on the lecture plat
| form to talk against organized labor.
Van Cleayc immediately dcni-d the charge
as "A lie.
Unul Mr.. Van Clesve became president
Of the National Association ~ ManuGac-
tuners he, never had had any troubles
with his employees. although a manu-
I faCturer on a large scale for many years
/ lie always attributed the strike in the
metal polishing department % his ~
Louis plant, winch Immediately followed
his election To the presidency. TO the long
standing troubles between the National
Association Of Manufacturers aud the
| American Federation Of Labor
Mr.. Van Cieaye was horn in Marion
county. Kentucky, July u.s. lSi0 When
the war broke out he entered the Conied-
crate army and served a. n Colonel under
Gen. Morgan. Alter the war he began.
/ ia 1851. the manufacture Of ranges ia
/ Tennessee He later went 20 81. Louis
and formed partnership with Mr.. Bucks.
who died some years ago. and he had been
head % the firm for many years.
The news % the death Of Mr. Van Cleave
came az a shock TO the delegates 81 the
National Association Of Manufacturers,
Who were gathering here yesterday for
their three days convention that begins
az the Waldorf to-day
1T iE not too strong 10 say said pres-
dent kirby az the Waldorf Inst evening.
that MIR Van Cleava practically sacri-
feed his HE for ne benefit Of the Ameri-
can employees ~ well a. tho employer.
Mr. Van Clelvc early appreciated the un- .
Amercanism q the boycott.
"Ony two hours ago, continued Presi- /
dent kIrbv. \ received a letter from Mr. I.
Van Cleave IN which he speaks Of the T.
hard tight We have had TO make for vears
for principle a. against policy and OF
how principle has won. Here h one
thing be writes.
The growth OF the open shop move. I
ment. the doom of the un-American
boycott the aot on 81 or Legislatures.
the court decisions al show that America
and the Constitution are st,ll America
and the Constitution.
MIR Van tleaye was right Tho manu-
facfurer Threatened on an sides hy
political dcmagCgues and compelled to
battle for the life u the business which
means the prosperity Of the cOrntry. IL
nov organized and Is using the power Of
organization for the good - men
During the last Republican national
convention al Chicago Mr. Van lleava
az chairman u the National Council for
Industrial Defence. which he organized
was instrumental IN having more than
s0O kilograms sent 90 the committee
on resolutions urg nE tho platform
makers not 10 tamper with the injunction
laws
Nlr Van Clavs il survived by widow.
three sons and a daughter lie would
not accept a denomination 20 tho presi-
denCy of the manufacturers association
last wear because Of the strain he was
under In bis Ilght agaInst the hnYcntt.