Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-22
National Manufacturers in
Convention at Detroit
Offer Criticism Of the
Oldfeld Bill. -.st
NO NEED EXISTS
FOR THE MEASURE
Send Resolutions to the
President Asking Him to
Veto the Sundry Bill Now
Pending. -

Detroit, Mich. May 21.-Discussions
of recent assaults on the patelat sye'
tenn; what they mean to manu1ac'ul
ers," Problems of Industrial Eauca'
ton" and european Laws and tne
American Manufacturer were among
the to~ics discussed at todays S ses.
sion Of the natfonal convention OF
Manufacturers Today was the las.
business CAV Of the convention ana
it was expected officers Wouid pc
elected for the ensuing year before
adjournment was taken.
A vigorous attack against the Olo-
field III, was made by Gilbert n.
Montagre of New York In his remarks
on t!,e ratent situation. -.
THE Oldfeld bill propcsess he SAID
"that Il ary applicant shall estabhsn
in q federal district court that a
patent owner, who has purchased a
patente1 invention from the original
inventor. is Withholding 1t, with the
result # nreventing any other person
from ;l,c nr the patented process more
than three years after the patent IS
issued. the e$court shall order the pat
ent sonrer to grant to the applicant g
license TO use the invention upon such
terma zosse royalty as the court o .ee ems
just.
Advantage to Corporations.
The burden ct litigation which this
proro al involves would give large
corpora ions the greatest advantage
over orsiinar;; atent owners. The
p - ,Sc ,,,,i1-
script:on Of .ra.t nts is that patents
are SOM times suppressed. ..
"Fcr t~enty-seven days the house
committee on patents took testimony
on. tho Cl.fe'd hill and not single
case OF suppression was cited. Al
mos. unanimously the witnesses
emphatically opposed the bill with
conc lvsiye nrcofs that its proposals
were unwise. tr.
sIf he small, independent manu-
>facturer could be competed to license
his big competitors to manufacture all
the second and third best inventions
that thev had acquired his big COM
petitor with their superior advantages
Of capital and selling organization,
could soon crowd the smaller manu-.
lacturar completely off the market.
"In the closing sessions Of the old
congress, members of the house COM
mittee, representing 9th parties,
united in a minority report against
the Oldfield bill. They showed that
every evil for which the bill has been
urged could be cured under existing
laws and that under the Sherman act.
interpretated by the supreme court in
many recent decisions. the patent law
affords no protection against any form
of restraint in trade. If Americans
manufacturers and inventors, whose
existence is now threatened by the
Oldfield bill, will join hands with the
opponents of the bill, the patent sys-
tenn can be saved"
For Vocational Education.
DR.. John J. Leete, dean of the school
Of applied science, Carnegie institute
of technology, Pittsburgh, Pa, read a
paper on fundamental problems of in
dustrial education" AS remedy for
lack of school education along in
dustrial lines, he urged,
"The provision of vocational train
ing for the different fields of in
dustrial activity approximately COM
mensurate to the demand for trained
men in those fields; more efficient
direction of the student toward the
work to- which he is best adapted;
facilities for supplementary education
for the workman and cooperation on
the part of the Industries to make
such continued schools efficient
Object to sundry Bill.
Practically all of yesterdays ses-
sions Of the convention was taken up
with discussion of labor organizations
and the labor situation in general.
The discussion eliminated in the
sending to President Wilson of resolu-
tions protesting against the sundry
civil appropriation bill and urging the
chief executive to veto it because Of
the provision against using it's funds
for the prosecution of labor organiza-
tions under the Sherman act, in case
such action ,is instituted
Check For President.
John Kirby, Jr., OF Dayton, O., retir-
ing president of the association, was
today presented with a check for $10,-
900 by the delegates attending the
meeting. Resolutions which were
adopted, stated that the gift was in
recognition of his efficiency as presi-
dent and his fearless, battles against
the militant labor upionism which
have been as efIectual be those of any
other one man In the country in estab-
fishing the principle Of the open shop"