Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-06
emery TELLS WHY
EMPLOYERS UNITED
To Offset Labor Unions and
Fight for Principle OF
the "0pen Shop"

James A. Emery, Washington repre-
| sentative Of the National Association OF
Manufacturers, appeared today before
| the Senate lobby committee to tell the
| organizations side of the story that Mar
| tin NJ. Mulhall began. Emery was ex-
| amined first by Robert McCarter, attor-
ney for the association.
| Attorney McCarter announced he in.
| tended to show that the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers had only been
| opposing the work Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. taking the opposite
| view on most subjects of legislation.
I'VE are going to investigate the
American Federation of Labor, too" said
Senator Walsh.
Senator Reed observed that his idea of
the duty of the committee was to estab-
fish the truth or falsity of the Mulhall
letters.
Fight for "Open Shop"
Emery testified he had been national
counsel for the manufacturers since 1907,
and for the National Council for In
dustrial Defense since 1908. The council.
he explained, was the natural outgrowth of
the desire of employers Of labor to form
some national organization that might be
able to do for them what the united
labor organiza lions 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
commended.
Emery testified that in August. 1907, at
the suggestion of James W. Van Cleave,
then president of the Manufacturers As
ISOLATION, representatives Of fourteen en-
ploying associations met in New York
and laid plans that resulted in the forma-
ton of the Council for Industrial Defense.
Mulhall swore there were no meetings:
that Van Cleave and other officials just
formed the council. a paper organization,
and elected themselves officers.
Mulhall to Have Rest.
Examination Of Martin NJ Mulhall.
self styled lobbyist Of the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, was post
poned today by the House lobby COM
mittee until Monday at the request Of
Mulhall, who announced that in the
last few days he had discovered in his
files in Baltimore some 200 additional
letters bearing on national politics,
and he believed that il given few
days he would be able to discover
more.
He pronounced the letters found i'm
portant, stating that some contradicted
committee by Representative Fair
child.
MulhalI insisted he needed rest.
Furthermore ! am celebrating my sixty
first birthday today and have been in
vited home" said he.
The committee excused him until Mon
day. granted his request to have coun-
sci during his examination, but with
held decision on his invitation to the
committee to send a representative to
Dole To .tct IA in, yrtp rOh
his files.
Louis Seibold resumed the stand and
was examined briefly as to the basis for
parts of the Mulhall stories prepared for
the New York World. The committee
then found itself without witnesses,
James A. Emery having been called be-
fore the Senate committee. A recess was
taken to await the temperance of
Emery.
Emery Letters Sarcastic.
The session yesterday afternoon was
devoted principally to the admission of
letters to the record. Expressions from
the epistles of James A. Emery. chief
counsel for the National Association of
Manufacturers. furnished the only en-
livening incidents of the beginning of the
House end of the lobby investigation.
which started Yesterday morning and
in the afternoon. The letters and tele-
grams covered wide field Of endeavor.
from the comments on the selection OF
labor and judiciary committees Of the
House to letters and kilograms to Presl-
dents Taft and Wilson.
Emery wrote to President John Kirby,
jr of the association March I. 1913, after
President Taft had vetoed the bill:
Il want to emphasize as hard as 1 can
the Importance of lining up for a ire
mendous demonstration when this bill
reaches President Wilson, as 1t undoubt-
eddy will, with the same provision in it,
You will then have an early opportunity
to decide whether the glittering demo-
cratic motto. Equal rights for all and
special privileges for none,' means any
thing, or whether the administration has
surrendered completely or will merely
turn over the Department of Labor.
Label for White House.
II note, by the way. your reference to
a letter from c. w. POST on the ques-
ton of a protest over the appointment of
Wilson Secretary Of Labor). 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 depart
ment will be shown up quicker with the
unions in control Of it than in any other
way. Gompers will run it characteristic
cally with a high hand, and If the whole
thing does not smell to heaven within
a year l shall be very much astonished
by that time democratic simplicity
will probably mean union label on the
White House stationery, and the Presi-
dent comforting with the walters union
over the appointment of his steward. At
present We have nothing more startling
in Jeffersonian simplicity than the news
that Mrs. Bryan is making a new suit
for the Secretary OF State and that cakes
and ginger ale will be served at the din
ner for the British ambassador. Tooth
picks will, of course. be an after dinner
course at all cabinet receptions. and the
demand for dress suits will be confined
to walters in the hotels