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the Indiana Manufacturers Association, the Towa Manufacturers 
Association, the Associated Industries of Kansas, the Associated In- 
dustries of Kentucky, the Louisiana Manufacturers Association, the 
Associated Industries of Maine, the Associated Industries of Massa- 
chusetts, the Michigan Manufacturers Association, Minnesota Em- 
ployers Association, Associated Industries of Missouri, Associated 
Industries of Montana, Nebraska Manufacturers Association, New 
Hampshire Manufacturers Association, Ohio Manufacturers Associa- 
tion, Associated Industries of Oklahoma, Manufacturers and Mer- 
chants Association of Portland, Oreg., Pennsylvania Manufacturers 
Association, Associated Industries of Rhode Island; Merchants, Man- 
ufacturers and Employers Association of South Dakota; Tennessee 
Manufacturers Association, the Utah Associated Industries, Asso- 
ciated Industries of Vermont, Virginia Manufacturers Association; 
the Federal Industries of Washington, State of Washington; West 
Virginia Manufacturers Association, Wisconsin Manufacturers Asso- 
ciation, Wyoming Manufacturers Association. 
Mr. CeriEr. Are those organizations members of the National 
Manufacturers Association? 
Mr. Emery. They are not members ; they are in cooperation with 
the National Association of Manufacturers. 
Mr. Cerrer. Did they adopt each specific resolution in favor of 
these Senate bills or against these Senate bills? 
Mr. Emery. They adopted at a conference held in New York in 
May an expression of their opposition to S. 3060 and their general 
approval of S. 3059 and 3061. 
Mr. CeLLER. At this conference was a representative of each and 
every one of those organizations present? 
Mr. Emery. No, sir; not all of them; about 95 per cent. The 
remainder represented associations that have since expressed their 
views on this subject and requested to join in cooperation in opposi- 
tion to this bill. 
Mr. Cerrer. How many representatives of each of those organiza~ 
tions represented at that conference were actually present? 
Mr. Emery. The president or the secretary of each organization, 
but in each case the expression I have here represents the action of 
the association or its board of directors before or since that time. 
Mr. Cerrer. Have you a blanket power of attorney from those 
various organizations? 
Mr. Emery. I have not. I have no power to represent them in 
reference to any matter upon which they have not expressed their 
own position through their own organization. 
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, none of those 
whom I have the honor to represent, nor myself, can be less con- 
cerned with the social consequences of employment, nor more desirous 
of making every contribution that organized industry can to remedy 
the existing conditions than the gentlemen who addressed you this 
morning. If I were to consider the proposal merely from a selfish 
standpoint, the producers of American manufactures would have 
the keenest interest in the preservation of the consuming power of 
the employees in the manufacturing industries, and that extends 
to all of the forms of employment. They have the profundest 
sympathy with this situation, and I would be unjust to them, and 
I would not fully represent their sentiments if I were not authorized