The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-11

deluge the President with letters ndorsing
his coursc2 The National Metal Trades
Association ought TO become active in this,
as should every other similar body. let
ter or commentator will go To the Pres
tdent signed by one hundred of our nom
union men, and 1 don't doubt that non-
shops will take similar action, If the matter
Is brought TO their attention There Is no
question IN my mind that the e. Pr rsa ec
ton that has set in against the abuses OF
organized labor. and he ought to be en-
couraged, and the fact emphasized that the
country Is with him in this question. Yours
INDIANAPOLIS DROP FORGE co.
(Signed) FIRED BARMICKEL,
Vice President and General Manager
The following article on the same subject
f. taken from Golfers Weekly of yester-
day:
ANOTHER VIEW OF IT.
THE open shop with all it's collateral
issues, has drawn the line in labor contro-
versy throughout the country. 1t is the
open shop which is involved in President
Roosevelts no discrimination order direct
ing all government officers to treat all citi-
zens alike in offering them employment.
irrespective OF their membership in any
association or union whatever. The execu-
tive committee OF the Federation of Labor
wisely refused TO condemn this order or
hand and reiegated the question to a SUBJ
committee. 1t comes up at the Boston
meeting Of the federation. Mr.. Gompers,
Its president, has already shown, by con-
to- 70 the the p ma dnd by
understands that union membership in
creases and emphasizes a mans loyalty TO
the law and does not diminish il. The
Knights of Labor, which have to-day only
a tenth or the membership Of the fedora
ton, have met the resolutions of the Wash
tngton Central Labor Union condemning
President ROOSpyplf nv
Ing him.
Opposition to the open shop is the back
bone of the support loyalty and ungrudging
ly given Samuel Parks, head of the New
York Housesmiths' Union and domino ting
force In the Kansas City convention of the
international Association of Structural Iron
and Bridge Workers. Parks is a convicted
blackmailer, with a dirty tongue'-as he
confessed in this convention. His character
IS thing apart from the cause for which
he stands. He has had the support of his
union solely for his cause.-the CLOSED
shop He believes that no, one but a union
man should work on union job
Labor organizations differ on this Some,
like the national railroad brotherhoods, per-
NIT members to work where nonunion men
work The building trades have made their
membership close corporation, their initia-
ton fee high and their Jobs to be restrict
ed to men fortunate enough TO be in the
union Wages are high under these condi-
tons, so high that capital is refusing to
go into new building In New York and else
where. So the housesmiths and the struct-
ural ironworkers generally, who have
profited by this policy, stood by Parks at
Kansas City.
But impartial observers say that the tide
is all running against the closed shop In
New York. thirty-one out OF thirty three
unions-some old and some new and seced-
ing unions-have agreed to the open shop
in building trades, some holding all and
some a part of those IN the trade, while
eight old unions hold out The National AS
ISOLATION OF Marble Dealers in Philadelphia
Baltimore, Buffalo, Pittsburg. Cleveland
Cincinnati, Chicago, Peoria, Milwaukee and
locked out their men on this issue and the
unions have met the challenge. The New
England Manufacturing jewelers. and Sill
versmiths. 300 Of them, have agreed a
lockout, IL necessary, TO secure the open
ShOD' "