The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-21
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Detroit. Mich, May 2O.-C41ar ging
that organized labor has failed to clear
| itself of 1.-The stains which violence
and lawlessness cast upon it," John
Kirby, Jr., of Dayton, Ohio, president
of the National Association OF Manu-
lecturers, in his annual report today
and legislative tendencies and their
effects upon manufacturers and en-
ployers. He referred in detail to the
attitude of manufacturers towards the
tariff. He said in part:
Conspicuous in the momentous
events of recent years that have tran
spired in the field of American in
dustry is the tragedy of Los Angeles
and the drama of Indianapolis" AS
Ia reward to the. principal accomplices
in this conspiracy, they have one after
another, through the power of the in
can Federation Of Labor been re-
elected to their respective offices.
Point to me one single labor leader or
delegate who has arisen and indig-
nantly demanded that such type cf
leadership be forever barred from the
administration of union affairs.
During recent years we have wit
messed the prosecution and convic-
ton of many business men under the
Sherman antitrust law for seeking IN
against ruthless competition and
dominant methods of the labor trusS.
If they have violated the law we have
no complaint to offer for the penal
ties which they may be called upon
to pay. but we do protest against the
free and unmolested manner in which
the labor trust defantly continues to
violate the same law.
1--WE ere justified in our Condemna-
tion of representatives and senators in
congress-, VINO in the name of political
expedency stoop so low in the scale
Of public duty as TO vote for such
legislation as the Clayton anti-injunc- |
tion and contempt bills passed in the I
low er house of the s2nd congress and !
which only esca ped passage in the /
senate by 2 hairs breadth,
There are men now acting in the .
Capac city of representa- tives of the peo- /
pie who under the cowardly pretenSe /
of political expediency, have been will
ing to violate their oath Of office f1r (
the cheap price offered by the leader
of an organized gang of dyns miters,
who. with their entire affiliated mem
bership. represent less than two per
cent of the population of the coun
try.
And should we not gaze with hpr-
rifed amazement upon the spectacle
presented to us in the closing davs
Of the last congress. when both tn"
house and senate passed the sundrY
civil appropriation bill providing no 4
funds appropriated for the use Of tho
department. of justice in prosecuting
Of the Sherman act should
oe used for the purpose of prosecut-
ng these defiant com mbinatiOns-a bill
which william Howard Taft promptly
vetoed? The same bill is pending
gain. having been promptly passed
,y the house in the special session
And this is the way the party in
power starts out to make good its
ooasted slogan of equal rights for all.
special privileges to none"
Referring to the Industrial Workers
Of the World as being supplemental
% the American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Kirby said
Against these forces of evil. do
nestle and alien. we must stand flint
ike in our resolve that our govern
nent is and must be a government
Of law.
IF as result of radical and ill
advised tariff legislation, We suffer
business depression and the loss OF
opportunity to labor he said in con-
clusion, ''the aftermath like in the
recent floods, will plainly be visible
md the remedy sharp and decisive.
But this is not the case with respect
% the insiduous class legislation
which is creeping up in us. Expert
snce teaches that once such Iegis-