David M. Parry

David MacLean Parry (26 March 1852—12 May 1915) was an American industrialist and writer.[1]

Biography

David MacLean Parry was born on a farm near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked briefly as a clerk, a traveling salesman, a reporter on The New York Herald and later became a successful businessman. He was president of Parry Manufacturing Co., and Parry Oil and Pipe Line Co., the Parry Auto Co.

Parry served for a time as president of the American Educational Society, the Citizens' Industrial Association of America[2] and the National Association of Manufacturers.

Parry was well known for being extremely hostile to labor unions and workers' rights.[3][4] He authored the anti-socialistic dystopian novel The Scarlet Empire.[5][6][7][8] The book was written as a satirical counterblast to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward.[9][10] He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, and an Odd Fellow.[11]

Works

• "Speech to the Convention of the National Association of Manufacturers, New Orleans, April 14, 1903," Indianapolis Journal, April 15, 1903, pg. 4.
• "The Necessity of Organization Among Employers," Science, Vol. XVII, No. 440, June 5, 1903.
• "What can a University Contribute to Preparation for Business Life?" In: Convention of Educators and Business Men for the Discussion of Higher Commercial Education. Ann Arbor: The Richmond & Backus Co., 1903.
• "The Employer's Side," Saturday Evening Post, October 1904.
• The Scarlet Empire. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906.
• "David M. Parry, Author of 'The Scarlet Empire,' Replies to Socialists Criticism," The New York Times, April 15, 1906.[12]
• "Automobile Sales and the Panic," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. XXXIV, July/December 1909.
• "Mine—Property and Rights." In: Walton Hale Hamilton (ed.), Current Economic Problems, The University of Chicago Press, 1914.

See also

• Eugen Richter
• George F. Baer
• Henry Ward Beecher
• Morris Hillquit

Further reading

• Bossiere, C.R. La (1974). "The Scarlet Empire: Two Visions in One," Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 290–292.
• Jones, Ellis O. (1906). "Parry and His Book," The Arena, Vol. 36, pp. 330–332.
• Marcosson, Isaac F. (1905). "The Fight for the 'Open Shop'," The World's Work, Vol. 11, pp. 6055–6965.
• Montgomery, David (1979). Workers' Control in America. Cambridge University Press.
• Pfaelzer, Jean (1984). The Utopian Novel in America 1886–1896: The Politics of Form. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Robbins, Hayes (1904). "The Employers' Fight Against Organized Labor," World Today. Vol. 6, pp. 623–630
• Roemer, Kenneth R. (1976). The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888–1900. Kent State University Press.
• Rubincam, Milton (1935). David M. Parry, of Indianapolis, and his Family, Hyattsville, Md.
• Rubincam, Milton (1938). "David M. Parry," Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 165–174.
• Rubincam, Milton (1947). "David M. Parry: Captain of Industry," Pennsylvanian, Vol. 5.
• Rubincam, Milton (1956). David MacLean Parry, 1852-1915, Studies in Ancestral Biography, No. 4, Hyattsville, Md.
• Simons, May Wood (1904). "Employer's Associations," The International Socialist Review, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 193–202.
• Stockton, Frank T. (1911). The Closed Shop in American Trade Unions. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series XXIX, No. 3.
• Wakstein, Allen M. (1964). "The Origins of the Open-Shop Movement, 1919-1920," The Journal of American History, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 460–475.
• White, Henry (1905). "The Issue of the Open and Closed Shop," The North American Review, Vol. 180, pp. 28–40.
• Willoughby, William Franklin (1905). "Employers' Associations for Dealing With Labor in the United States," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 20, pp. 110–150.

External links

• The Scarlet Empire, at HathiTrust
• Dystopian Predictions of Mankind's Reaction to Mechanical, Scientific and Moral Progress
• Parry Mansion in Golden Hill