Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-17

, Evidence at hand. however, iudi.
Gates strongly that the principal aim
of the corporations executives Is TO
instill msldlously the idea IN tho pub
lie mind that trade unionlsm threat
ems American institutions aud tha, Il
restricts freedom,
Officers Foes of Labor.
Chief Of the counts in the indicl
ment against the American Motion
Picture Cooperation IL the hostile la
hor record of It's founders aud most
conspicuous hackers, William h. barr,
President Of the National Founders
Association, and John 4. Edgefton,
President OF the National Association
of Manufacturers. A every trade
unionist knows, these two men, with
the association OF which they are the
head, are the source Of much ni the
antl.union, open shop propaganda
In the conutry.
Associated with Barr and Edgerton,
who are. respectively, President and
Treasurer and chairman OF the board
OF the corporation, are number OF
lesser capitalists and employers and
sprinkling Of elergymsn and edu'
Gators. Presumably the other officers
and the members Of the board of III.
/ feetofs are IN sympathy with the Ia.
bor views Of Barr and Edgerton, as Il
| Is hard to imagine these two tors of
/ organised labor being In close busi-
ness association with men friendly TO
trade nni0nism.
The presence Of elsfKsmen III the
| list of officers aud directors OF the
American Motion Picture Corporation
| gives the impression that the corpora
| ton has the backing of organized re-
| ligion. Just how far this support goes
| is mol disclosed but IL Is plainly the
/ policy of the corporation To convey
| the idea that Il has the blessing pf
| the church in its proposed activities.
Anti. unionisis Called In.
The clergymen named were asso-
cialad in the founding of the Church
Motion Picture Corporation, whose
announced aims were similar 10 those
of the corporation which takes its
place. Whatever may have been the
reason for calling In Barr and Edger-
| ton, the fact remainz that they are
now the leading spirits In the enter
prise.
| 1EhIffh Aiiu lbfNfi1 iNAiiAiA avn W
prospective investors, asking financial
support Of the American Motion Pic.
ture Corporation show the lines ON
which the corporation Is proceeding.
Copies of the letters aud other liter
ature have been obtained by the ip'
ternational Labor News Service.
In letter explaining what the cor
poration plans to do, Herbert May
nafd. Jr., secretary, says;
mo class Of American citizenship
understands as well as the manufac
turer that the time Is here when real
action, not mere resolutions, must be
taken 10 combat the radical and reyo'
lutionary forces that are invading our
country, ad which, If left unehal-
lenged, will undermine our present
system of Industrial, religious and
social life.
TO meet this situation, William
II. Barr, President Of the National
Founders Association, and John +.
Edgerton, President Of the National
| Association Of Manufacturers, after
much study and experimentation,
have founded the American Motion
Picture Corporation, realizing that
/ the motion picture will do more 10
/ educate the human rnee than all the
other agencies combined, If used intel
ligently IN the practical and avail
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