The sun., 1919-06-12
WAR LABOR HEADS
DISMISSAL ASKED
New Jersey Manufacturers
Council Sends Cablegram
to President Wilson.
BASIL MANLY DENOUNCED
Charge Made That His Utter
ances Are Indictment to Dis
order at Critical Time.

At a luncheon of the Manufacturers'
Council Of New Jersey In the Robert
Treat Hotel in Newark yesterday
resolution was adopted demanding that
President Wilson request the !resigna-
ton Of Basil Manly as Joint chairman
OF the National War Labor Board on
the ground that his utterances In
speech recently made in Atlantic City
were socialistio and Incorporate and
calculated to stir up class hatred and
advance the cause Of anarchy. The
council unanimously voted to send this
cablegram to the President in Paris:
Basil Manly. Joint chairman of the
National War Labor Board, by his in
temperate uttorances at Atlantic City
has shown him elf incapable Of properly
discharging thu duties OF his important
office, His words are a direct incite-
ment to disorder, We respectfully re-
quest that you ask his resignation"
Copies of the cablegram have also
been sent to the Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress from New Jersey.
The sending of the cablegfam and the
adoption Of the resolution followed q
bitter attack upon Manly by Kirk Brown.
president of the Condensite Company Of
speech in detail and declared that the
idiot who rocks the boat and the fool
who shoots with an unloaded gun are
innocent and babbling children compared
to the man who at this time invites and
encourages Industrial disorder" He
quoted a part of MRnly's speech, in
which the chairman Of the War Board
declared that unless steps are taken to
bring about q better understanding be-
tween labor and capital strikes and
mass meetings will be called within n
year beside which all other disturbances
will seem insignificant. and that the
United States is about to enter a period
Of Industrial controversy more acute
than any ever before known. Manly
also had said that American labor
would not 60 Bolshevik unless Il is
driven to the course by the goading of
the selfish and unenlightened capitalistic
agencies"
This Speech" said Mr.. Brown, "is a
piece of socialistic propaganda pure and
simple. except that part which Is pure
Bolshevism. and 1t is being spread under
the frank OF the National War Labor
Board at the expense of the people. In
no other country in the world to-day is
labor better paid than in this country.
In no other country has there been such
widespread and we'll nigh universal
recognition OF labor's Just demands--no-
where else are working conditions so
tolerable and such an enlightened spirit
OF accommodation TO the new industrial
conditions brought about by the war to
be found.
Some Of the recent strikes and agi-
tations serve to emphasize this-the de-
Ymand OF the builders trades In Boston
for one dollar an hour, the strike at the
Willys-Overland plant in Toledo. where
n most generous profit sharing plan is
! in operation, and the strike OF the rabbit
skinners OF Jersey City for an increa Sc
of their wages from 500 to $40 a week
Not all labor Is paid what II should
| be-some is overpaid and some is under
paid. and shining examples of the latter
are not always victims OF private en-
| ployers but are to be found in public
employ. such as school teachers and the
| employees OF the Post ONCE Department
Yet the very politicians in control of
Government agencies are the very ones
who are constantly demanding that