Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-21
N J. ANVIL QUEEN
SNEERS At LABOR
Mrs. n. c. f. Andrews, at Man.
ufacturers' Convention, HurIs
Philippe at Unions.

NEW YORK, May 21.-The seventeenth
annual convention of the Manufacturers
Association started its three-day ses-
sion Yesterday at the Waldorf Astoria.
The delegates. to their great surprise and
against the urgent objections of at least
one prominent membe of the associa-
ton, were dumfounded by the anti
labor speech of Mrs. Harriet Clark
Fisher Andrews. of Trenton, known TO
fame as the anvil queen and the
only woman member of the association
When Mrs. Andrews. who about a
month ago married Lieutenant-Engineer
Andrews, of the Argentine navy, was
escorted to the stand by General Harrie
son Grey Otis she was heartily APP
plauded. Mrs. Andrews stuck. She re-
ferrcd, with pride to her Pilgrim ances-
try. She said she hoped the delegates
present would support some measure
that would restore the American flag to
the high seas.
Here She Switches.
Then the speaker switched. Her re-.
marks geographically reported, were,
'Gentlemen, we are now held down in
the manufacturing business by the worst
tyranny that ever held down any ountry
You. all of lis, ,foolishly allow our or
ganizntions to be dominated from the out
side by walking delegates and labor union
people.
1T is about time we remedied this and
sent these people packing on their way.
We do not need them, we do not want
them, and we should not permit ourselves
to be bothered by them. They are vicious
In the extreme. They accomplish no
good. They do work positive harm to
u.s."
Il object to those remarks" said a
western delegate.
Mrs. Andrews continued, needless of the
objection:
Here Is a lazy man who had not brains
enough to carry a load of coal upstairs
unless his wife tells him to. We have
been hampered too long by such
creatures. Those are the kind of men
who form the labor unions and their
delegates.
w are bothered to death now by the
manner in which we are restricted as to
apprentices. A weak man making but 500
or $25 a week tells us how many appren-
tices we may have and we foolishly listen
toshim. That should and must stop IL we
are to progress or IL we are to take ap-
prentices into our employ and make men
of them.
"All this tyranny of unionism we must
do away with. We must get rid of unions
and their delegates. It is not fair to the
manufacturer, to the capitalist, to the In
weston in corporations, and 1t Is even I'M
fair to the workmen themselves. We man.
ufacturers are now squeezed between the
miIlstones of dividend desirers on the one
side and cheap salary-seeking unionists on
the other"
s A chairman Of one of the associations
committees, who asked that his name be
withheld, said to a reporter at the close
of Mrs. Andrews's remarks:
"Plcase do not think that we members
stand by those statements or opinions.
If Mrs. Andrews had been a man l
doubt If she would have been allowed to
E; continue.
sRegardless of differences between
labor I'M capital, our one big question,
and the chief question before this con-
%vention, is the acquisition. and operation
by its members of accident preventing
devices. We are all agreed on that point.
We must protect the workman, and we
want to-"
The delegates adjourned to the big
: ballroom, where they watched moving
picture reels Illustrating accident pre-
vention devices.
General Lewis N. Bryant. commissions
of labor of New Jersey, delivered a
short lecture and bowed a reel on Fac
tory Fire Drills" This was succeeded
by the final motion picture, Safety at
Sea; Lifeboat Drill on an Ocean Liner