Association, is leaving no stone unturned in what he feels to be a
desperate effort to organize his class. He has issued the call to
arms in terms everything but ambiguous: "THERE IS STILL TIME IN THE
UNITED STALES TO HEAD OFF THE SOCIALISTIC PROGRAMME, WHICH,
UNRESTRAINED, IS SURE TO WRECK OUR COUNTRY."

As he says, the work is for "federating employers in order that we
may meet with a united front all issues that affect us. We must
come to this sooner or later. . . . The work immediately before the
National Association of Manufacturers is, first, KEEP THE VICIOUS
EIGHT-HOUR BILL OFF THE BOOKS; second, to DESTROY THE ANTI-
INJUNCTION BILL, which wrests your business from you and places it
in the hands of your employees; third, to secure the PASSAGE OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY BILL; the latter would go
through with a rush were it not for the hectoring opposition of
Organized Labor." By this department, he further says, "business
interests would have direct and sympathetic representation at
Washington."

In a later letter, issued broadcast to the capitalists outside the
League, President Parry points out the success which is already
beginning to attend the efforts of the League at Washington. "We
have contributed more than any other influence to the quick passage
of the new Department of Commerce Bill. It is said that the
activities of this office are numerous and satisfactory; but of that
I must not say too much--or anything. . . . At Washington the
Association is not represented too much, either directly or
indirectly. Sometimes it is known in a most powerful way that it is
represented vigorously and unitedly. Sometimes it is not known that
it is represented at all."