Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-19
THE OPEN SHOP.


What We want Is to have the laws en-
forced.
THE OPEN SHOP.
What has been your chief fight. Mr.,
Job?"
I'VE are fighting for several things"
was the reply. "ln the hrst place we
want the open shop; second we want
no sympathetic strikes third. no re.
striction OF output or OF personal In.
dustry, and fourth. the full enforcement
OF the public laws. | think we have
gained our point as to sympathetic
strikes, and that We are In a. fair way
to make the open shop the rule In Chi
cago, II We have not already done so.
In 20 cases out out every 100 we have
won. We are making II possible for
the non-unlon man to work In Chicago
and possible for his employer to hire
him without fear OF being boycotted
or otherwise injured In his business
DO you admit members to your as
ISOLATION who have the closed or union
shop?"
mo, we do not, We are ready. how
ever, TO come to the support OF such
men II they have trouble with organ
lied labor and want to return and join
u.s."
TRADES UNIoNIsM IN CHICAGO,
GIVE me some idea of the extent of
the trades unions OF Chicago"
I'VE have several hundred unions"
replied Secy. job, but ] believe that
from 80 to 80 per cent Of their mem
bers are involuntary ones. They have
been forced or coaxed into the unions
and are afraid to leave them, IL had
the power Of emancipation President
Lincoln had when lie freed the slaves.
II could send forth an edict which
would enable the members OF the trades
unions OF this country TO deseret the
ranks OF organized labor without fear
OF violence or ostracism, firmly believe
that four-ffths OF the trade unionists
would leave"
you will see that this Is the case"
Mr.. Job cont inucd, ~ you watch any
election In which the labor vote con-
stitutes an important element. That
vote Is never half so large as Is antlci-
pated."
why SOP"
II ~ btNtbSf tue HltH NOlltlk nv tIltg
please secretly change their ballots and
throw them against their own candi-
dates, because at heart they are sick
Of the thraldom to which they are
yoked,"
UNHEALTHY FOR NoN-UNIoN-
lists.
rs Chicago a dangerous place for
worklngman VINO does not belong to a
union?"
1T has been 80 at times. and ! will
not say that II Is not 80 now under
certain oondltlons?" replied Secy job
IL could cite many instances OF men
who have been assaulted and manned
because they have opposed the Will
Of the unions. and some In which men
have been murdered have heard OF
union meetings where men were forced
to assent to the doing Of their leaders
and where they believed their lives
would be In danger II they did not.
There have been many outrages on
non-unionists, az, for instance, we had
recently a published case OF nom
union printer who was thrown to the
floor by a party OF union employees In
one Of our saloons and the question
there debated whether II would be bet
ter to break the mans arms or his An
gers one by one that he might be In
oapacitated for work. The police res
cued that man.
Now, such things may not be done by
the leaders or the better element OF the
unions, but believe they are instigat-
ed by them, and we have It alleged that
there Ia a band Of paid sluggers here
who are used as wrecklng crews to
commit acts OF violence IN behalf OF or.
ganized labor The hospital records
will verify this"
THE GIRL WITH THE GREEN SILK
WAIST.
I'm what classes Of labor do such
conditions obtain?" | asked,
They have obtained IN almost every
class, was the reply. 'and that even
among the women trades unions, One
odd case was that OF non-union girl
In westside factory. who was guilty
OF the helnous offense OF wanting TO
earn her living In her own way. The
union girls wanted her TO Join them,
but she would not, and they then APP