New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-02
KIRBY AND PARRY GIVE
UP TRIP TO TESTIFY
Cancel Passage to Australia at
Great Expense at Demand OF
Senate Lobby Committee.
BRANDENBURG NOT HIRED
Statement Given Out That Mul.
hall Affair Had Been Engi-
neered in Attempt to De-
stroy Association.

San Francisco. July John Kirby,
jr., formerly president of the National
Association of Manufacturers; David
NJ. Parry, also a former president of
the association. and ]. P. Bird, Of
Plainfeld, n. j., general manager OF
the association, left here tonight for
Washington. in obedience TO notihca-
ton from the sergeant-Gt-arms of the
Senate that their testimony was re-
quired by the committee investigating
the activities Of lobbyists.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirby and Parry were
to have sailed at noon on the steamer
Ventura for Australia, where they
planned to make an investigation OF
the relations between capital, labor ard
the state in the Antipodes. They can
celled their reservations at considera-
BILE expense half an hour before the
liner cleared.
"Broughton Brandenburg never was
IN lne employ VI TIC -NdtAOi~i SnSS~
ton Of Manufacturers, was the reply
Of Mr.. Kirby, when dispatches from
Washington reporting the charges
made there by Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent Of the American Federation OF
Labor, were shown him.
The party gave out signed state
ment that the Mull2ll affair had been
engineered in an attempt 10 destroy the
association. The statement follows:
From the press dispatches shown us
to-day the purpose Of the so-called Null
hall story is made plain. Not satisfied
with securing from the Democratic
convention held in Baltimore absolute
pledges to exempt organized labor from
the operation of the law of this land.
they now attempt by falsehood and
Misrepresentation TO discredit and de-
stroy the National Association Of Man
ufacturers, the one organization that
from its inception has operated under
the slogan of Equal opportunity for all
under the law That we have fought
steadily the greatest criminal trust
this world has ever known. we do not
deny; that we have illegally attacked
or in any way misrepresented this dam
nable trust. we do emphatically deny
Associations Aim Defined.
Our entire effort in legislative mat
tiers has been to show Congressman and
Senators. and the country at large the
one fact that the very stability Of our
institutions depends on the faithfulness
of those officials to their duty and upon
their answering fidelity to the oath of
office by which they pledge themselves
when accepting their responsibilities.
I'VE shall return willingly to face
the accusations made. Immediately
upon request of the Congressional COM
mittee we cancelled our transportation
to Australia This we readily did that
we might have the opportunity of fac
ing what we believe TO be a set-up job,
and that we may publicly reveal. openly
and frankly. every operation Of the Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers,
and show 10 the world the reasonable
cowardice Of some Of our public off,
eials.
I'VE shall, of course, know more
about these malicious and false charges
when we arrive in the East, but we beg
to inquire If it has ever been the case
in the history of Congressional pro-
cedure that a newspaper attack ap-
pearing on one day was followed by
the issuing of government subpenas
the next day."
Technically speaking. none OF the
party was subp9naed. Copies Of the
telegram exchanged with Sergeant-at-
Arms Higgins show that Mr.. Kirby
was requested to appear" on July 8,
necessary expenses TO be reimbursed.
Committee Refuses Postponement.
In reply to an inquiry whether he
would accept this request as service Of
a subpoena he answered that he would,
but begged that the inconvenience and
expense necessarily entailed be consid-
cred excuse for a postponement. Ser
geant Higgins. replied this morning
that the committee insisted. and the
party left here tonight.
Individual members Of the party
made no statement regarding Mr..
Gompers's charges other than Mr..
Kirby's declaration regarding Brandon
burg.