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Birth of an Employers' Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Richard W. Gable
Richard W. Gable
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Associate Professor of Public Administration at University of Southern California
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Abstract

The forces that originally impelled manufacturers to unite were often of fleeting impact and were soon replaced by the cohesive influence of new issues. The NAM, conceived to wage a tariff war, discovered in organized labor a common enemy for its members and traced its prosperity from the date it became a gladiator in the labor arena.

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Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Winter 1959 , pp. 535 - 545
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1959

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References

1 Proceedings of the 31st Annual Convention of the National Association of Manufacturers of the United States of America, 1926, p. 61; 1904, pp. 243–244; 1920, p. 27. [Hereafter referred to as Proceedings.]

2 NAM News, Feb. 26, 1944, p. 7. The railroads of the country “recognizing the importance” of subsequent conventions made a rate of a fare and one third for the round trip of all members and their families and allowed a 50 per cent discount to men traveling to attend the NAM conventions (American Industries, May 1, 1906, p. 2).

3 The purposes listed were: conservation of the home market, extension of our foreign trade, improvement of the consular service, expert commercial agents abroad, promotion of Spanish-American trade, re-establishment of reciprocity treaties, extension of our merchant marine, improvement of waterways, construction of the Nicaragua Canal, creation of manufacturers and commerce department in government, uniform freight classification, and passage of a national bankruptcy law (Circular of Information, No. 1, June 15, 1896, pp. 1–8).

4 American Industries, Oct., 1929, p. 15.

5 Proceedings, 1920, p. 29; 1926, p. 61.

6 Proceedings, 1901, pp. 23–24.

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9 See Proceedings, 1910, p. 134; 1915, p. 172; American Industries, June, 1911, p. 11; Dec, 1912, p. 23; June, 1915, p. 30.

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18 Quoted in American Industries, Aug. 1, 1903, p. 14.

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20 Proceedings, 1903, in Commons, p. 315.

21 Perlman and Taft, in Commons, op. cit., pp. 129–134.

22 American Industries, July, 1911, p. 37.

23 Proceedings, 1903, pp. 17–18.

24 Proceedings, 1903, p. 16.

25 Proceedings, 1903, pp. 15–16.

26 Proceedings, 1903, p. 133.

27 Proceedings, 1903, pp. 166–167.

28 Proceedings, 1903, pp. 165–166. No. 9 was inserted by the 1904 convention, Proceedings, 1904, p. 173.

29 Proceedings, 1926, p. 62.

30 Proceedings, 1906, p. 135.

31 Proceedings, 1900–1907, passim.

32 Proceedings, 1896–1907, passim.