David M. Parry

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

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., and served for a time as president of the American Educational Society, the Citizens' Industrial Association of America and the National Association of Manufacturers. Parry was well known for being extremely hostile to labor unions and workers' rights. He authored the anti-socialistic dystopian novel The Scarlet Empire. The book was written as a satirical counterblast to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner, and an Odd Fellow.

Works

• "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.
• "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.