The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-11-14
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/: FOR 4 EUGENE u !; lD.EE|j S
REPLIES 70 PRESIDENT RoosE:.
Welt IN: MILLER CASE. T.

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Debs .contend. That. the Day Of the
Open Shop is Past-if the opsen
Shop is Such a Good Thing Why
! Net for the, lawyer Doctor and
+ Other Professions-Believe That
! Socialism Will Solve the Question
Terra Haute, Ind, Nov. 12.-Eugene
V. Debs, when asked his opinion 81
President Roosevelt's ruling in the
Miller case and the open shop said: IS
| Since the. order issued by President
Roosevelt in the Miller case in the
! bindery Of the government printing
office at Washington the PAPERS have
had much to say in commendation OF
/ the presidents decision, and in sup
port of the open shop" which inevith-
| bly, follows. -
1.-THE capitalist employer may now
say with Increased emphasis: Gen.
! tlelnen, we ask no question : as TO
whether the men we employ belong 10
unions or rot. and Furthermore, we are
simply following the precedent es-
| tablished by, the president in reference
to government employees, and every
patriotic Cd employer ought to- do
the same
+ On Ethe surface this looks we'll
enough but it will hot bear an i'll
stants scrutiny. :.
THE open shop is. thing Of the
past. 1t worked tolerably we'll years
ago, when it had to; when organized
labor was weak and impotent and
had to settle with the employer on the
hoe hat h.
men in his shop and not discriminate
against Or discharge them simply be-
cause they belonged to the union.
This was the day of the open shop
and it was accepted as temporary
compromise until, little by little, or
ganized labor obtained better foot
hold and the%S1fop was wholly union
ICED. Since then the union has become
more potential and has asserted itself
in a, corresponding degree. The lines
between union and non union men are
pretty sharply drawn. especially in
the printing trades, and in the very
nature Of the situation a shop must
be wholly union or wholly non-union.
The open shop today is a non union
shop, wholly and, absolutely, and the
order OF President Roosevelt nom
unionizes the government printing
office, and every other industrial de-
partment In the government service.
The lawyer employed by the govern
n1ent must be a union lawyer-a MEM
Der of the bar the lawyers union;
or he don't get the job.
"The doctor that enters the service
of Uncle Sam must hold a card and
be in good standing in the 'associa-
tion,' the doctors union, or he is
turned down and out. :
But the mereworking man-what
ard make 11fH1 standing, I'M the union
eminent service? 5
If the. open shop is such. a. good
thing why not for >, the lawyers and
doetqra and i gth professions u
Gin this connection It ALSO peril,
nents to- ask 5thes: capitalist employer
why he does not run, an open shop
on his side of the house ?. Does he
allow some Of the stockholders to be-
long to the curporatton-the employ
ers union-and some of them to just
act as individuals without joining the
corporation?
1.-The capitalist employers don't keep
oman shon, IN their sida hut thov
,shrawalv ,irs;sf~+hat e. it, = f3ne tRinr
fo,:,+ho;. ,,,n,n1,as - sre o,forci,e
s. n,,re,v 70. 4 Nal, ::rtIa1fara - !.
"Tha nres,dent bas s1innod long
keen @h,a de- INTO the vitals Of organized
labor. OF course he acted in his ca
pacity as a union as he is himself a
member of the Brotherhood of Loco
tive Firenen Having never fired a
shovel Of coal in his. life he is now
making M sfor II. III; firing union men
who foolishlVstiYnaR fne fif that if thew