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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 1 October 1904, Page 4

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j The latest" develhent in the war between anabour in America is described by a wrinMcClure's Magazine who gives aitcresting account of what ho calls ;jfte New Employers' Association movent" in the United States. He sajthat the anthracite coal strike of 190'hve the capitalists of the United Statin object lesson as to the moral of qriised labour. The moral was pla_n|f ipital must organise or go to the wallf.he result is the pre-: sent capitahsticn-ganisation against labour nnionism|is due to two causes: First, .the recogion of the immense value of orgauisan ; and, secondly, the vivid l-ealisafciohv'fthe mischief that can be wrought' by|iat the writer calls ." inflated unionis." Silly strikes, petty exactions, absuictboycotts, and brutal violence on . thipart of ill-regulated unions, have mslened, not only large capitalists, .but||;o, smaller men, and the present mosme'nir is the result.) Employers' Assojitioris are divided into two classes; thefirst consists of those whose object is toght trades unions, the second consists ojkose who seek to deal with the unioiis'^The motto of the first is that "indusS is war," and of the second that "In<cjstry is business:": The fighting..organisations are divided into two sections. Te first,, consists solely of employers; an the second of the so: called: " Citizens" Alliance, which are ■made up of cities generally, including non-union ..workifir, men. These organisations, while vaying widely, generally announce the fold-wing principles: The ''open shop," nobym^athetie strikes, no violence to non-lnio-i men, no limitation of output,J.-oif of apprentices, no. boycott, and Wye go further and declare against aifelration, trade agreements and picketing .

The associations'which deal with the unions are nrlicl.Ymoro reasonable and moderate in than- tone. One of the most successful of these is the .Chicago Metal- Trades.-Association, which is an organisation of more than one hundred . ■•■■ ■ ■ -.- '■■(.: manufacturers, employing some fifteen thousand men. : .,This. association has succeeded im banishing, strikes-"and lockouts. The Metal Trades Association requested each of the unions having nien employed in shops of its members, of which there were six, to appoint a committee of three men to'meet simila,r committees of the association, and talk things over. After,.discussion, they, formulated a preliminary agreement, submitting every question at issue toa committee of six members, three from the union . concerned and three . from the association, .".'■'■';■.'stipulating - that, in case, Yof : failure :to : agree,

.-»*»•.. ■ ■■.'■■■: disputes shotd. 'bo submitted .- to arbitration, an :that, pending- the rdecisipn, work $.ovdd be continued with- r -out lock-out §: strike/ Not in a single instance waslt; necessary to proceed to arbitration, : Iprytiling was agreed to in a' spirit of |htual friendliness. The basis of; this ireemeht was four cardinal j principles'.: r|First, no limitation .of output • secoil, no sympathetic strikerthird, no c< jation of workmuder any circumstanc % ;and fourth, freedom in the emploMeht of-labour Y. .Where! strikes were jequent beforeiineither sidehas lost a si de hour. -"..'•■'--■