Denver labor bulletin., 1915-12-25
RHINOCEROUS BIRD
MAKES ASSAULT
Gives High Sign to Business
Interests of Nation
Corrupt and DiScredited National As
sociation Of Manufacturers Warns
AGAINST Industrial Commission

Now comes the National Association of
Manufacturers with warning against
the Committee on Industrial Relations.
Below is an abstract from the special
Washington Correspondence" of Ameri-
can Industries, the official monthly pub
lication of the association that employed
Mulhall to corrupt public servants.
The article is written by one of those
rhinoceros birds that are so common in
Washington. The rhinoceros bird also
fIourishes in African swamps. He perches
on the back of the rhinoceros and feeds
on the insects that he finds on its thick
hide. In return for this favor he warns
the rhinoceros of the approach of an
enemy by flying into the air and utter
ing shrill cries.
This particular rhinoceros bird chirps
as follows:
1.-TWO dangers confront the business
interests of the country. Both are i'm
mediate and pressing dangers. altho the
interests have heretofore either wholly
disregarded one of them or looked upon
it as very remote, one to be considered
some time in the distant future. The
first is oppressive and repressVe legis-
lation on the part of the national ana
state legislatures, and the second is the
rapid growth OF socialism in the coun-
try.
.As to the first, it is true that Presi.
dent Wilson has tentatively declared
that no further radical legislation is con-
templated, yet all indications point the
other way. The renewed aggressiveness
on the part OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the hints and sugges
tions that have been thrown out by the
Federal Trade Commission, the activity
Of labor organizations and the demands
Nhey are preparing 10 make on congress
are all warnings to the business of the
country that a hard battle is before il.
There was a brief time when the Inter
state Commerce Commission gave hope
that transportation lines We're to be
given some little opportunity to make
earnings large enough to enable them t."
meet the demands of the public in the
way of betterments. but such hope has
been rudely dispelled. and today trans
portation lines are once more amid the
breakers.
For some years organized labor has
maintained in Washington a most per
sistent and energetic lobby. filling the
galleries and lobbies OF the Capitol. ana
besieging members of congress at every
turn. Today Il second lobby is added
to that headed by Mr.. Gompers. The
new lobby is under the direction of Mr..
Walsh, chairman of the late Federal In
dustrial Commission. He has opened up
Headquarters and bluntly announced
what he and his followers propose to
demand-not to ask-of congress. One
demand is law taking away from the
courts the power to declare congress
sional enactments unconstitutional, es-
pecially when such enactments have TO
do with labor in any form. Another is
that all supplies needed by the govern
ment, including vessels OF war, NUM-
tions, guns, etc, be made in government
plants. A third is the organization and
arming of a well drilled army of labor,
and fourth. that neither the regular
army nor the National Guard shall ever
be used against striking labor organi-
zations
@Mr. Walsh calls his new organization
The Industrial Relations Committee
The committee is composed of twelve
members, seven of them being rather no.
torious for their radicalism regarding Ia :
Dor. and the other five are well known
agitators, and advocates OF impossible
Utcpias. A publicity bureau has been
opened and the press is to be fed with
rank arguments favoring the declared
purposes of the committee. Politicians
as rule, are notable towards when it
comes to facing the demands made by Ia
Dor organizations and threat of loss of
votes frequently frightens them into do
ing things their better conscience con
demns. 1t was such scare that forced
them to pass the Clayton law and the
Federal Trade Commission aetT