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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
quicker play of their mental faculties which
tends to a higher mental and physical de-
velopment. They exercise a greater degree
of independence and will not bow the head
and bend the knee to the dictation of some
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR.
meddling walking delegate. They become
•EDWARD LYMAN
property
owners and feel an interest in
Editor and Proprietor
their special locality. In other words, they
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are men in all that the word implies, and
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they are more ready to appreciate the fair
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ADVERTISEriENTS, $2.00 per inch, single column, per employers than the average run of men
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count is allowed. Advertising Pages $50.00, opposite read' who dwell in the hives of the great cities.
ing matter $75.00.
REMITTANCES, in other than currency form, should So in the end, the unions, by carrying
bo made payable to Edward Lyman Bill.
their demands to the extreme point, will
Entered at the .New York Post Office as Second Clast Matter.
disintegrate the very forces which consti-
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 1899.
tute their strength, and ultimately lose con-
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trol of the very men whom they seek to
THE KEYNOTE.
The first week of each month, The Review will hold in imperious bondage.
contain a supplement embodying the literary
Geo. P. Bent, that active, aggressive,
and musical features which have heretofore
appeared in The Keynote. This amalgamation virile and independent Chicago manufac-
will be effected without in any way trespassing
on our regular news service. The Review will turer, has caused the following advertise-
continue to remain, as before, essentially a
ment to be inserted in a recent issue of a
trade paper.
Chicago paper:
WILL MANUFACTURERS MOVE?
D E R H A P S the most complex of all eco-
nomical problems which now confront
us is that of labor and its relation to in-
dustry. The industrial spirit of the nation
or a site for one, within 50 miles of Chicago,
is not combative and is willing- to treat
suitable for use in making the
labor fairly in a remunerative way. In-
CROWN
dustry, however, cannot afford to bow to
PIANO.
the dictation of organized labor, because
Must
be
located
where police protection and
the moment that condition arrives, then
justice in the courts can be afforded to men
independence will be retired from the
who wish to work, and where industrious work-
men are entitled to and can enjoy "life, lib-
throne of action. Manufacturers cannot
erty and the pursuit of happiness" without
afford to be crippled by having unjust
being "molested or made afraid" by labor
demands made upon them, because the
unions or "walking delegates," and where
" t h e wicked cease from troubling and the
moment the industrial institutions are
weary are at rest."
hampered immediately the progress of the
Employment will be given to from 300 to
nation is retarded, for, after all, it is in-
400 men at best wages.
dustry which is the creative force that
must be reckoned with in every sub-divi-
BENT BLOCK,
sion of life.
Cor. Sangamon & Washington Boul., Chicago.
The great cities, in their several trades,
to-day to a great extent are dominated by
There is a truly Bent ring in it.
the labor unions, and manufacturers have
Mr. Bent told us a short time ago while
been forced to submit to a large degree of conversing upon this very topic that he
the exacting demands of the union dele- had rather close his factory than to lose
gates.
control of any part, or in any way have
These constant interruptions cannot long his independence as a manufacturer
continue without creating new conditions, thwarted or abridged at the dictation of
which, to our mind, will result in the outsiders.
change of location of manufactories. Great
He evidently realizes to-day that Chicago
cities which to-day are the citadels of the is the hot-bed of the labor problem, and
labor organizations will lose many of their that his interests will best be promoted by
valuable plants, which will be found sub- seeking some other location. His action
sequently in smaller towns where they will in this will be followed by others, as we
not be interfered with by the walking del- learn that Story & Clark, another eminent
egates. The moment industry becomes Chicago institution, are considering the ad-
scattered from the great commercial cen- visability of locating at Dixon, 111.
ters the employees are beyond the control
Manufacturers in this trade know full
of labor organizations. They live more well that while important cities have ad-
wholesome lives, and the natural existence vantages, they have disadvantages as well,
which they follow brings into action a chief among which is the labor problem.
FACTORY
WANTED
QEO. P. BENT,
If we scan the history of this trade, or
the history of that portion of it which has
always carried on manufacturing opera-
tions outside of industrial centres, it will
afford much satisfaction to those who are
considering the advisability of removing
to smaller points.
In New England let us take the plants
at Brattleboro. As far as we have been
able to learn, a more contented set of men,
better housed, better fed and better paid
do not exist than those who have for years
found employment in Estey factories.
Should we look at that huge industrial
plant of the Sterling Co., located at Derby,
Conn., and we will find that it has been
operated entirely independent of outside
interferences. Then if we visit Ivoryton,
Conn., where the huge plant of Comstock,
Cheney is located, employing nearly six
hundred hands, we will find that an entire
village has sprung up around this great in-
stitution, the citizens of which are satis-
fied and are spending no time listening
to the appeals of the walking delegate. In
other words they are contented, and if we
take other points like New Haven, Meri-
den, Deep River, we find also that there
has been no halt in the productive capacity
of the institutions located in those cities by
reason of an introduction of labor prob-
lems.
Passing on to New York State we will
first take Dolgeville, the home of a great
industry, which has been always free from
labor troubles. Auburn, Waterloo, Al-
bany, Brockport, Rochester are important
musico-industrial points, and have always
been free from strikes.
In the West we may take Norwalk, Ft.
Wayne, Richmond, Detroit, Ann Arbor,
Muskegon and Saginaw, all of which con-
tain factories which are important in the
trade, and the labor problem cuts no ap-
preciable figure there.
The union should understand that there
is a point beyond which manufacturers will
not be driven, and it might be well not to
drive them too far towards that point, or
else the men themselves will have passed
beyond their control. The more industrial
institutions are removed from centralizing
organizations, the more, remote the possi-
bility to business interruption.
A SERIOUS ALLEGATION.
TN some way or other the belief has gained
in local circles in Chicago that Eastern
piano manufacturers were interested in as-
sisting the union in Chicago to the extent
of arranging with union leaders for action
similar to what has already occurred in
that city.
There is not the slightest ground for
serious consideration of such an allegation.