Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-10
CHAPTER 6.
The National Manufacturers Assoc
iatf0n.

The National Manufacturers ASSOC
iatton.
This part of the "Holy Trinity"
stripes over their heads, and when
plays the "Holy Ghost" business in a
gentler way This is a gathering of
gentlemen more refined and edu-
Gated than the National Metal Trades
people. You see the owners Of these
shops never had overallS on or a
greasy face, and even have their own
ideas of this free country. | have
seen some of them when at their
banquets and never had the pleasure
before in listening to more anarchist
ic speeches, also waving thestars.an
recently | heard some of their rep
,resentatives supporting the plea of
ship subsidy. You feel compelled
to- open your mouth in admiration.
70 call them industrial bandits would
gbe a grave injustice, why nearly all
of them wear evening dresses and
white gloves. No! Bandit" Is too
coarse and then let us not lose the
fact that they being so patriotic, waiv
ing the flag at every swish OF the
tongue you must agree with me that
bandits are un-American, foreign to
our customs of hold-up. But To-.
how about "Raffles'' not a social
Rattle as they rifle on the liberty
and the pockets of the American
workers, SO why not industrial Raj
fes." You hit it just right. Listen
to a fragment of speech made by
the President of the National Mfg.
Association, Mr.. Kirby, at his inaug-
ural banquet. MraKirby after taking
dramatis pose, his glass OF cham
payne raised and with his left hand
resting gracefully on his glistenlng
white shirt and his voice so tremu-
louis with emotion that even his even
ing dress shook in sympathy, and
with a semi-tragic voice he started
All! the scathing vituperation against
labor organizations, the denuncla-
ton of Unions, would make even the
most rabid Russian Cossack look pale
with envy. While the grand inquisi-
tor Of the fourteenth century fame
will turn in his grave chagrlned that
a common twentieth century mortal
of the Kirby type was able to use
more venom than he in his persecu-
ton Of hereties. 1--WE cannot COM
promise with criminals, meaning the
labor union, we must take the labor
beast by the horns and force 1t into
complete submission. Those were
the exact words uttered at the ban
quet. The only mistake Mr.. Kirby
made is judging the Union man by
his own standard, bqt nevertheless
the workers are considered as "a
''beast." Is it any wonder that they
are trying to reduce him to the
plane of one in his living and educa-
ton power. resist them. They cannot
do it individually, They must put
solid form. Their shops, no matter
if it is a carriage fastory or break
fast food factory, the description OF
the National Metal Trades Associa-
ton shops applies in those cases to
the shops operated by the Nation
al Manufacturers Association. Any
person who works for them as soon
as he enters the portals of their es-
tablishhents surely leaves manhood
behind. The members of this Asso-
citation have at their disposal the
Press and Courts more readily than
any other organization of employers,
due to the fact that they advertise
more extensively. Their representa-
tives are swarming the Hobbies of the
state and national legislature, having
only the view to curb any laws that
will benefit labor and to defeat any
idea for civic improvement that does
not bring any returns into their
pockets; anything that does not Gre
, ate dividends is not useful to them,
SO all their labor is directed to pro-
tect their own unearned wealth from
| the greedy. lazy and luxurious"
American Workingmen. Here is a
letter sent to one of the members adj
dressed to A. j. Beatty, Chairman,
Columbus, Ohio, and by mistake
handed to Senator R. A. Beatty,
1.-THE addressee A. J. Beatty is Presi-
dent of the Federal Glass Company,
of Columbus, Ohio, and which a part
of the contents goes on:-Dear Sir:
Etc, etc. and winds up with the
! asking of $500 contribution for
labor legislation, to support lobbies,
also part of this money to dine and
wine those who are ready to listen
and lend their ears to the PROPOSE
| ton. Here is another extract from
the letter: 1.-The work Of this commit
| lee Is H1ulCSu " OppOo1A6 POA AANAOuS
class legislation dictated against the
employers of Ohio; we feel that your
fair share of the sum necessary to
carry on these works will be $780,"
(There are ten such f1rms1in Ohio.)
Another part of the letter reads like
this: 1--WE all know what the employ
er jury does to an employer in dam
age cases. and if juries are made
judges of the law, as well as the facts
the sky will be the only limit for
verdicts." This letter got into pos
session of Harry Thomas. Cleve-
land Union leader.
George Beatty, brother of the
Glass Company's' president, in an
interview admitted that the letter
referred to the contribution and he
was very surprised of the publicity
given to the letter. my brother is
siclr in he'd ;, said George Beatty.