Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-12-23
DScrpdted National Association Of Manufacturers
Sees Dancer Head In Industrial Relations Committee

Now comes the National Association
of Manufacturers with warning
against the Committee on Industrial
Relations.
Below is an abstract from the "spe-
cial Washington correspondence of
American Industries, the official
monthly publication of the Associa-
ton that employed Mulhall to corrupt
public servants.
The article is written by one of
those rhinoceros birds that are so
common in Washington. The rhino-
ceros bird also flourishes in African
swamps He perches on the back Of
the rhinoceros and feeds on the in
sects 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 ut
tering shrill cries.
This particular rhinoceros bird
chirps as follows:
Two dangers confront the business
interests Of the county, both are in
mediate. and pressing dangers, al
though the interests have heretofore
either wholly disregarded one Of them
or looked upon it as very remote, one
to be considered sometime in the dis :.
tant future. The first is repressiv :
and oppressive legislatio non the part
of the nationa land state legislatures.
and the second is the rapid growth of
socialism in the country.
LAS ito the first, it is true that Presi-
dent Wilson has tentatively declared
that no further radical legislation IS
contemplated, yet all indications point
the other way. The renewed aggres-
siveness on the pant of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the hints
and suggestions that have been
thrown out by the Federal Trade Com
mission, the activity of labor organiza-
tons and the demands they are pre-
pairing to make on Congress are all
warnings to the business of the coun-
try that a hard battle is before it.
There was brief time when the In
terstat Commerce Commission gave
hope that transportation lines were to
be given some little opportunity to
make earnings large enough to enable
them to meet the demands Of the pub
lie in the way of betterments, but
such hope has been rudely dispelled,
and today transportation 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 Hobbies of the Capitol,
and besieging members Of Congress
at every turn. Today a second lobby
is under the direction of Mr.. Walsh.
chairman of the late Federal Indus
trial 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 a law taking away
from the courts the power to declare
Congressional enactments unconstitu-
tional especial ywhen such enact
ments have to do with labor in any
form. Another is shat all supplies !
needed by the Government, including
vessels Of war, munitions, 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 organiza-
lions.
"Mr. Walsh calls his new organiza-
ton The Industrial Relatinos Com
mittee.' The committees composed |
of twelve members seven of them be-
ing rather notorious for their radical |
ism regarding labor, and the other
five are well-known agitators and ad-
vocates OF impossible Utopias. A pub
licity bureau ha sheen opened and the
press is to be fed with rank argn.
ments favoring the declared purposes
OF the Committee. Politicians, as