The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-19

New York, May 18-The suggestion 1 that a nationwide federation of all employers associations be formed was approved yesterday at the third and final days session of the annual convention of the National Associa- ton of Manufacturers at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The committee on resolutions, to whom had been refer red the remarks on the subject made yesterday by George Pope, president of the Association, reported the fol- lowing resolutions:
 That we, the National Association of Manufacturers, in convention as- sembled, do hereby approve and rec ornmend the suggestion made by Pres fdent Pope in his annual report, that some plan of organization be created, representative of as many local State, and national industrial organi- zations as possible, which may agree on certain definite principles. and may express. at times, the authoritative opinion of associated industry with respect to measures and policies eff fected by the Government and the Congress of the United States.
 That the spirit and intendment of this resolution is our belief in the ne cessity of greater and more concerted effort to express the composite opin- ion of employers and business men respecting national and Governmental
 
 of our vast industrial possibilities.
 Industrial Legislation.
 James A. Emery, general counsel to Lthe National Council for Industrial Defence, discussed industrial Iegisla- ton on a paper which read in part as follows
 ''Business'' is but the citizen at work for profit and self-supRort, employing the physical, legal, and moral inStru- mentalities typical of modern indus try and commerce. The regulation of such business is an essential and inn portant part of the business of Gov ernment. In State like ours every form of enterprise is presumed to possess the widest freedom of action compatible with the public interest. The regulation of the persons, com blnatjons. and circumstances of pro- duction and distribution is therefore of intimate interest and consequence to our people. For a decade at least, think, especially the manufacturer, the carrier, and the ffnancier felt that the tendency of legislation has in dicated a dominant Governmental be- lief that in the making and executive administration of law it has been more important to chasten business than to encourage it.
 The Sixty-third Congress enacted a series of antitrust acts, regulating not only the operation and relation ship or industrial com b1T1auo onS to each other, but the conduct of their employees during industrial disputes undertaking to limit the judicial pro lection for life and property under such circumstances. That legislation was inspired, shaped and pressed by the representatives of non-industrial constituencies with the least under standing and experience with the stake in the critical problem at issue.
 The Sixty-third Congress was com posed of 435 members, the majority party possessing 29O. Of these, 165 were from Northern and Western States, in which the urban or indus trial population out-numbered the ru- raI about eleven million. One hun dred and twenty-five were from Southern States, with an industrial and urban population of approximate