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the Indiana Manufacturers Association, the Towa Manufacturers
Association, the Associated Industries of Kansas, the Associated Industries
 of Kentucky, the Louisiana Manufacturers Association, the
Associated Industries of Maine, the Associated Industries of Massachusetts,
 the Michigan Manufacturers Association, Minnesota Employers
 Association, Associated Industries of Missouri, Associated
Industries of Montana, Nebraska Manufacturers Association, New
Hampshire Manufacturers Association, Ohio Manufacturers Association,
 Associated Industries of Oklahoma, Manufacturers and Merchants
 Association of Portland, Oreg., Pennsylvania Manufacturers
Association, Associated Industries of Rhode Island; Merchants, Manufacturers
 and Employers Association of South Dakota; Tennessee
Manufacturers Association, the Utah Associated Industries, Associated
 Industries of Vermont, Virginia Manufacturers Association;
the Federal Industries of Washington, State of Washington; West
Virginia Manufacturers Association, Wisconsin Manufacturers Association,
 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 opposition
 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 concerned
 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