New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-15
Used to "Pull Wool Over
PubIic's Eyes," Committee
Reports at Convention
Cooperation Is Urged
Expediting of Patents 10 BE
Utilized in War Is
Recommended

Five hundred members Of the Ma
tional Association Of manufacturers,
who began their twenty-second annual
convention at the Waldorf yesterday
received from a special investigating
committee a report charging the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor with using
the union label to pull the wool over
the pubIc's eyes"
The federation's assertion that "a
bellcd products are made under SAM
tary conditions and are superior IN
quality was denounced as "a fable.
"Thc unionist himself knows it is not
true, and consequently he refuses to
bug goods that have no superiority ex-
ccpt in price," said the committee.
"The higher price is the result OF
organized labor's opposition to eli
cheney methods, and as the label can
be used only in union dominated shops
where efficiency methods that lowe
costs are constantly opposed, the most
elementary knowledge of economies
shows that these goods cannot compete
on the market with non-iabellei
goods" -.
The report. presented by Henry ~.
Leland. was referred for further dis
cussion.
Industrial Mobilization Urged
The delegates represent $500 manu-
facturers. Colonel George Pope, Of
Hartford, Conn. the president, who
presided. said war conditions called FOR
an industrial mobilization and closer
co0peration between employers, en-
ployes and consumers.
The first of the three days session
was devoted to the reports Of standing
committees. Henry 3. Joy. Arthur c.
Fraser and Stephen c. Mason urged
that the force at the Patent Office at
Washington be extended, so that pat
ents to be utilized in the war would
not be held up for three or four
months before they were passed upon.
They recommended the creation Of a
court OF patent appeals.
Other recommendations we're:
That Congress create plan for Fedei n
, incorporation. as opposed 20 the present IS -
TEN OF incorporation in states.
That manufacturers adopt all possible
methods for the elimination Of occupational
diseases.
That employees be encouraged to make pro-
vision for old age. that old age pensions
in civil life may be avoided.
Prominent Men TO Speak
To-day the convention is to be al
dressed by James A. Emery, attorney
for the association. Tomorrow the
speakers are to be L. T. Loree, presI-
dent Of the Delaware G. Hudson Rail
road Company; Frederick j. Roster,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce of San Francisco; VI. Parker
Willis. of the Federal Reserve Board.
and Secretary of Commerce Redfeld.
At banquet tomorrow night Colonel
Pope and United States Senator James
T.. Watson are to speak.
Among the manufacturers attending
are:
j. G. Battelle, Columbus. Ohio: Carleton
A. Chase. Syracuse; ]. T.. Edgerton. Leba-
non. Tenn. r. b. Farnsworth, New Haven {;
Isaac ". Frank. Pittsburgh John Kirby.
jr.. Dayton. Ohio; T.. b.. Leigh. Chicago ::
A. j. Lindemann. Milwaukee: Constant
Meese. San Francisco: VI. W. Mix. Misha-
waks. Ind Adolf Mueller. Decatur. H. /:
Enos Paullin, Bridgeton. n j. George y.
Selby. Portsmouth. Ohio; L. &. Spear.
Springfield. Mass. Charles l.. Taylor. Hart
ford; Albert j. Thornley,. Providence John
Trix, Detroit, and william p. White, Lowell.
Mass