Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — Not a War Fond. [ARTICLE]

Not a War Fond.

American Industries, the organ of th* National Association of Manufacturers, replies to an attack made in the Federationist by Sampel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, wherein he referred to the $500,000 a year which the manufacturers are to raise as a “war fund to crush the unions.” The reply in question ridicules the idea that a war of extermination is to be waged upon organized labor, and quotes from its resolutions adopted in 1903 as follows: “The Rational Association of Manufacturers is not opposed to organizations of labor as such, but is unalterably opposed to boycotts, blacklists and other illegal acts of interference with the personal liberty of employer and employe. No person should be refused employment or in any way discriminated against on account of membership or non-membership in any labor organization, and ther* should be no discrimination against or interference with any employe not a member of a labor organization by a member of auch organization.”