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THE
fflJJIC TIRADE
V O L . X L V . N o . 1 2 . Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison A Y C , New York, September 21,1907
DEFENDS MANUFACTURERS.
Brownell
Declares Fund Was
Crush Labor.
Not
Raised to
The campaign of the National Association of
Manufacturers to furnish means of popular edu-
cation on the labor question, which has been
met in its beginning by vigorous attacks from
the American Federation of Labor, is explained
in detail by Atherton Brownell in an article
published in American Industries, issued recently,
The article is in part a counter-attack on the
representatives of labor who have designated the
campaign fund of the manufacturers "the war
fund for crushing labor."
The allegation is
made by Mr. Brownell that labor unions have
been successful in suppressing news the publica-
tion of which would be harmful to their cause,
and one instance, no names being used, is cited
where "one of the greatest newspapers in this
country is visited daily by one of the most repre-
hensible labor leaders, whose power it is to sup-
press any matter that does not please him." The
writer also declares that in many newspaper
offices the labor leader gets in his work by
threatening the editor with trouble.
The object of the fund of the manufacturers
is declared to be not to crush labor organizations,
but to educate the public in the matter of prob-
lems of labor and capital.
"To specify more particularly the use of the
fund," says the writer, "it may not come amiss
to specify the exact purpose for which the ex-
penditure of $500,000 a year was authorized. To
establish a federation of all the associations of
citizens, merchants, and employers of labor; to
maintain a great council of this federation.
"To support for the federation a literary bu-
reau and a speakers' bureau.
"To continue the educational work of the dif-
ferent separate organizations in a far larger and
more effective way.
"To aid members of Congress and the State
Legislatures against the attacks of organized
labor.
"To employ a corps of lawyers who shall ad-
vise local organizations on all local questions,
report the violations of all State and National
laws affecting industry and trade, and the State
and National Governments in the prosecution of
offenders.
"To create labor bureaus, operate a labor clear-
ing house, and help in the better distribution of
immigrants.
"To aid and promote the establishment of in-
dustrial schools."
The use of the manufacturers' fund along these
lines, the writer declares, will be pursuant to the
policy of the National Manufacturers' Association
of attacking tne evils of unionism, and not the
principle of organized labor.
half century of successful trading in musical
instruments. The house is still growing and even
at the present time is making extensive improve-
ments and enlargements.
SETTLING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
The Vacation Season Has Now Closed and
Traveling Men Are on the Road or Getting
Ready for Their Trips—'Mostly Everybody
With Whom The Review Has Spoken Is Con-,
fident of a Busy and Prosperous Fall.
The vacation season being at an end the manu-
facturers note a decided change for the better,
and they are gradually becoming more optimistic
relative to fall business. A week or so ago most
every man you met asked, "Well, what are the
prospects for fall," and in the next breath would
quote certain people who thought that trade was
going to be dull, etc., etc. To-day the majority
are confident that business will be good; in fact,
since orders are coming in freely they are
hustling every department of the factory to meet
the call. This not only applies to the piano in-
dustry but to small goods as well. Every im-
porting house and jobber have all the business
they can swing to, and the retailer is placing
orders earlier than usual so as not to be caught
short on the market when the holiday rush
sets in.
The piano supply manufacturers, including
hardware, actions, etc., etc., are rushed with or-
ders, and in several instances have been obliged
to run their plants overtime to keep up. with
advance and duplicate orders.
The local piano dealers are getting more in-
quiries than a week or so ago, and the hopes of
many have been revived. The business atmos-
phere is certainly clearer and things generally are
putting on a more sprightly air. In another
week trade will be in full swing and the fears of
yesterday will be forgotten.
TO TEACHMJVERTISING.
Y. M. C. A. Lecture Course to Teach Ethics of
"Crying Wares" in Public Prints.
To give those who wish to take up the writing
of advertisements as a career—a good basic
knowledge of the ethics of "crying their wares"
in the public prints—the' Twenty-third street
branch of the Y"oung Men's Christian Associa-
tion will open its third year's lecture course on
"The Theory and Practice of Advertising" on
Wednesday, October 9. With the exception of
Christmas and New Year's Day this will con-
tinue every Wednesday evening until April 1.
The opening lecture will treat of the subject
"Advertising as a Career for Young Men," with
Frank L. Blanchard, of the Hampton Advertising
Co. to supervise the course, in which will be
heard M. L. Gillam, advertising director of the
DROOP & SONS' 50TH ANNIVERSARY.
New York Herald, on "The Ad. Writer;" "Prin-
E. P. Droop & Sons Co., the piano dealers, of ciples of Display," by George P. Metzger, of the
Washington, D. C, announce that they will cele- Columbia Phonograph Co.; "Some Mistakes of
brate the fiftieth anniversary of the establish- Advertisers," by Joseph Eldridge Esray, associate
ment of the business on November 17, 1907, this editor of the Fourth Estate; "Retail Advertis-
being the exact date that nwks the end of a ing," by Samuel Brill, of Brill Brothers; "De?
SINGL E
$ 2 .OO°PER S VEAR C E N T S '
partment Store Advertising," by George H. Per-
ry, of the Siegel-Cooper Co.; "Selling Goods by
Mail," by Robert Wynn Palmer, editor of Print-
ers' Ink; "Value of Newspaper Advertising," by
Frank L. Blanchard; "Magazine Advertising,"
by Herbert S. Houston, of the World's Work, and
"The Personal Element in the Placing of Ad-
vertisements," by Robert Frothingham, of Every-
body's Magazine. Rates and contracts and re-
sults are also to be taken up and other phases
of the business will be dealt with.
CHAPMAN BUYS OUT MILLER.
Rochester Dealer Steadily Expanding—Has Re-
cently
Absorbed
Two
Establishments—
Handling a Big Line of Instruments.
E. J. Chapman has purchased the store and
entire stock of the late Giles B. Miller, Roches-
ter, N. Y., including piano players, small goods
and sheet music, and will continue the store at
63 State street as a branch. Mr. Chapman now
conducts three stores, including his headquar-
ters at 31 Clinton avenue, South, and the re-
cently acquired store of Martin Bros., at 69
State street, and with the recent additions han-
dles the following lines: Mason & Hamlin, Hard-
man, Behning, Sohmer, Fischer, Poole, Kurtz-
mann, Lester, Kroeger, Harrington, Baus, Cam-
bridge, Bailey, Erhardt, Briggs, Laffargue, Mar-
tin Bros., Shoninger, Hensel and Kohler & Camp-
bell. He also sells the Hardman Autotone, Cecil-
ian player and Autopiano.
FEEL NEW YORK^S COMPETITION.
Piano Dealers in Paterson and Other Towns
in New Jersey Complain of New Yorkers
Working Their Territory.
The piano dealers of Paterson, N. J., state
that the competition from New York is becoming
quite a factor in their city and that the battle
for business will be keener this fall than for
many years before. New York department stores
conducting piano auxiliaries are working all the
adjoining territory in a most careful and sys-
tematic way, with the result that piano dealers
in smaller towns are feeling this kind of com-
petition very keenly. Hence it behooves them
to be up and doing in order to hold their own.
CROWN PIANO FOR PROMINENT CLUB.
A special "Crown" piano is being built at the
Geo. P. Bent factory in Chicago, 111., for the
Palette and Chisel Club, one of the most notable
clubs of artists in Chicago. The case will be
of special mission design to match the furnish-
ings of the club, and will be a creation that will
reflect credit on Mr. Bent, and on its owners.
The Palette and Chisel Club has been In exist-
ence some twelve years, and represents the
younger school of painters and illustrators in
Chicago and vicinity.
Van Alstine & Moore have opened a new piano
store in Ricketts' building, Eureka, 111. Both,
are piano men of experience,