Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-06
LOBBY HEARING
IS TO HEAR
emery
THE SENATE LOBBY COMMITTEE
IS TO LISTEN TO JAMES A.
emery, WHO WILL REFUTE and
DENY MANY OF THE STATEMENTS
MADE BY MULHALL.
HOUSE COMMITTEE TO
HEAR MULHAlL MONDAY

Washington, D. c.. Aug. 6,-Jame
A. Emery, Washington representative
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers, testified today before tn
senate lobby committee, to tell thu
organizations side of the story tina
Martin M. Mulhall began. Emer!
was examined first by Robert McCar
ter, attorney for the association.
Attorney McCarter announced he in
tended to show that The National AS
sociation of Manufacturers had only
been opposing the work of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, taking tht
opposite view on most subjects O.
legislation"
We are going to investigate the Am
erican Federation of Labor, too," sale
Senator Walsh.
Senator Reed observed that his idea
of the duty of the committee was tc
determine the truth or falsity of the
Mulhall letters.
Emery testified he had been ma
tional counsel for the manufacturers
since 1909 and for the National Coun
Gil of Industrial Defense since 1906
The council, he explained was the ma
tural outgrowth of the desire of en-
ployers of labor to form some national
organization that might be able to do
for them what the united labor oreani-
cations wished to do for labor.
Broadly speaking he said, the main
idea was to fight for the open shop
instead of the unionized shop for
which labor contended.
Emery testified that in August, 1907,
at the suggestion of James W. Van
Cleave then president of the manu-
facturer's association, representatives
of fourteen employing associations
met in New York and laid plans that
resulted III the formation of the Coun-
Gil for Industrial Defense. Mulhall
swore there were no meetings. that
Van Cleave and other officials just
formed tn council, paper organiza-
ton, and elected themselves officers.
MuIhalI After More Letters.
Examination of Martin M Mulhall,
self-styled lobbyist of the National
Association of Manufacturers, was
postponed today by the house lobby
committee until Monday at the re-
quest of Mulhall who announced that
in the last few days he had discovered
in his files in Baltimore some 200 ad-
ditional letters bearing on national
politics, and he believed if given a
few days he would be able to discover
more
Louis Seibold resumed the stand
and was examined briefly as the basis
for parts of the Mulhall stories pre-
pared for the New York World The
committee then found itself without
witnesses, Jas. A. Emery, having been
called before the senate committee.
A recess was taken to await the re-
appearance Of Emery.
James A. Emery, counsel for the
Manufacturers, took the stand later
in the day and continued identified
tions of letters supplied from the files
OF the association.
The labor planks and general make
up of both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties in the 1908 campaign
received considerable attention from
the association, the letters showed.
Several Of the letters showed the
activities of Marshall Cushing in or
ganizing sentiment for "conserva.
tive" platform at Denver and sat
isfctory Injunction plank at Chicago.
Discussing the recent sundry civil
bill, with its provision prohibiting the
of certain funds in prose.
cution of farmers and labor unions
under the Sherman law, Emery wrote
to Presideit John Kirby, Jr., of the
association. on March z, 1918, after
Presideit Taft had vetoed the bill:
Il want to emphasize as hard MS I
can the Importance of lining up for
tremendous demonstration when this
bill reaches President Wilson, IS it
undoubtedly will, with the same pro.
vision in 1t. You will then hare an
early opportunity to decide whether
the glittering Democratic motto
Equal rights for all and special priv
Ileges for none.' means anything, or
whether the administration has sur
completely or will merely
turn over the department of labor.
II note, by the way, your reference
to letter from c. w. (Post) on the
question of a protest over the ap.
pointment of Wilson (secretary Of la.
bor). A protest on this subject is a
mere waste Of breath and on the
whole I am inclined to think that the
whole purpose of this department
will be shown up quicker with the un-
ons in control of 1t, than in any 9th.
sr way. Gompers will run it char
with high hand and If
he whole thing does not smell to l
leaven within year I shall be very
much astonished. BY that time Dem :
,cratic sympathy probably will mean r
! union label on the White House a
stationery and the president confer a
ing with the walters union over the S
appointment of his steward At pres /
mt we have nothing more startling Il
n Jeffersonian simplicity than the d