The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-04-02
MANUFACTURERS WILL
HOLD SILVER JUBILEE
National Association WIN Convene
Twenty!fifth Session, on May
IL, Is and 10.


New York, April 1.-The National
Association of Manufacturers of the
United States will hold its twenty-fiftl
annual convention In the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, New York City, on May
H. 1S and 10, according to an an
nouncement made in this city, tonight
The convention will mark the Silver
jubilee of an organization that hai
spent twenty-five years of effort de
voted to the development of the indus
tries of the country and plans are be
ing completed to make 1t correspond
ingly memorable, not only from the
point of individual Importance but OF
national and international as we'll
Great problems confront the manu-
factureFs today. With the swift ex-
pansion and disruption of industries
that was compulsory on the entry of
this country into the war the re-align-
ment of the back-to- peace footing, the
manufacturers are now working in
tensively on every problem ahead of
them for the REIMBURSEMENT of indus
try, the rehabilitation of labor and
the restoration Of the economic poise
of the nation. They believe that COM
pick are were the problems of the war,
these now have grown infinitely more
pressing because ehwhole future of
the country depends on the wisdom
with which they are solved.
During the three days of the con-
vention, various subjects will be dis
cussed by men of national and inter
national prominence, who are recog
nized the world over as authorities on
the topics with which they will deal.
Every phase of un-economic methods
so much in evidence today, will be
handled with directness and earnest
mes in the hope of arriving at a proper
solution of the difficulties.
while the details of the convention
are not yet complete, one OF the fea-
lures, of vital interest to every manu-
facturer, will be discussion of the
report just made to the President by
the Industrial Conference, which rec
ommends, among other things, the ac-
ceptance by industry of the principle
of collective bargaining, the creation
of machinery for the settlement of all
Industrial disputes, new system of
food marketing, relief for government
workers and school teachers and a fix
ing of minimum wage to bive rea-
sonable living conditions. Committees
on Industrial Betterment, Health and
Safety, immigration, Patents, Uniform
State Laws, taxation, Banking and
Currency, Foreign Trade and Bank
ruptcy will present their reports and
conclusions which have been arrived
at after long and careful consideration.
Confidence is expressed that this
convention will be the most important
and influential yet held because con-
ditions, general business and social
problems have had such a shaking-up
in the last five years that every manu-
facturer, small and large, in every
city and town in the country, feels the
necessity for calm analysis and sane
solution. In the present disturbed and
disrupted situation, the gathering will
be of direct moment to every worker,
every employer and every broad-mind-
ed American who has the future of his
country at heart.
The first session of the convention
will be called at Q o'clock on Monday
afternoon, May IT, This will be de-
voted largely to the presentation of
committee reports and committee dis
cussions. The public sessions will be-
gin Tuesday morning with an address
by Stephen c. Mason, the President of
the association. Then will follow other
speeches on the most dominating of
the big issues Of the day discussed by
men of world reputation and influence
in their respective spheres. Wednes-
days sessions will be continuation
of these presentations and the day will
close with the Silver Jubilee Banquet
which will take on national and in
ternational flavor.
For twenty-five years the National
Association of Manufacturers has been
the one great national organization
rendering practical service to manu-
facturers of all classes and embracing
in its activities the domestic field of
legislation, industry and finance and
the commerce of the worl dat large.
1t was organized in 1895 and now on
the eve of its Silver Jubilee finds itself
facing probably the most constructive
ly vital situation in it's history follow
ing the descriptions of war and the
uncertainties of the situa-
ton presented with the country prac-
tically on a peace basis but technically
still at war