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Article: National Association of Manufacturers
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS
(NAM) was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1895. Most fundamentally, the organization sought to give business an authoritative voice in the determination of governmental policy. More particularly, born in the midst of the serious depression of the mid-1890s, the NAM was dedicated initially to the protection of the home market via the tariff and to the expansion of foreign trade by such means as reform of the counselor service, the construction of an isthmian canal, and a revamping of the U.S. merchant marine. In the wake of the anthracite coal strike of 1902
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1903, the association increasingly turned its ...