New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-27
TO FIGHT FOR OPEN SHOP.
CRUSADE FOR NEWBORN.
Results Expected from Contention
of Citizens Industrial association.

The second annual convention of the Citizens
Industrial Association. which will be held on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week in tho
Hotel Aston. is looked forward to with peculiar
interest by the employers of this city, as 1t is
believed that a supreme attempt will be made TO
win the New-York employers to the ranks Of
the organization. Final preparations for the
convention made yesterday by James T.
Hoile OF Brooklyn, third vice-presdent of the
association.
Like the National Manufacturers Association
from which the Citizens Industrial Association
springs the latter is engaged in furthering the
open shop idea. The National Manufacturers
Associate however has other aims and objects
besides, while the sole aim of the Citizens In
dustrial Association Is TO agitate for the open
shop. It brought first prominently to pub
lie notice in the mining riots in Colorado in 1908.
Terrorism grew until citizens laiance in
the mining district, which a branch of the
Citizens Industrial Association. decided to take
matters into it's own hands. 1t appointed COM
mittees of members who, armed with shotguns.
entered the homes of union miners at night and
compelled them, with their families. to get up
and dress hurriedly. when they were deported
under an armed guard beyond the limits of the
State.
The officers of the Citizens Industrial Associa-
ton assert that there are thousands of union
men who want the open shop. but who are afraid
to express their sentiments on the subject in
public.
Within the last year several secret meetings OF
New York employers have been held under the
auspices of the Citizens Industrial Association
in the Hotel Waldorf TO gain over the New
York employers. Nothing definite done.
though with the exception of the building
trades the open shop is to a large extent the rule
in the various trades.
New-York employers object to lawyers. physi-
clans and other non-employers being repre-
sented in their councils. The Building Trades
Employers Association. which was represented
al the meetings. has declared itself in favor Of
the closed shop. At the convention plans will
be laid to start the open shop campaign in New
York with vigor.
Through Third Vice President Hole invita-
lions were sent last week in the form OF cir
cular letter TO all the prominent New-York man
ufacturers to attend the convention. After CIV
ing the objects for which the convention is called
the circulars say:
Insdious and socialistic doctrines as preached.
published and practised by so-caled labor leaders
cIndo The exercise Of free and independent thought
on the part Of intelligent members Of labor unions
menace to society. The frequency with which
committed has Obliged employers TO organize for
nvGyns the Sd0p ion or mesno9s
conducting their own business.
David NJ. Parry. who is president Of both the
National Manufacturers Association and the
Citizens Industrial Association, will preside at
the convention. The speakers will include Wal
lace Downey. of the Townsend & Downey Ship
building Company: Charles n. Chadwick, OF
Brooklyn; Frederick w. Job, president of the
Employers Association of Chicago. and c. W.
Post of Battle Creek Mich.
Regarding the work before his association, Mr..
Hole said yesterday:
We going to fight the closed shop right along.
and the open shop is bound sooner or later to be
universal There is one trust-the Labor Trust
which the campaign "spelbinders'' overlooked In
their ante-eIection speeches Now that the
pagn Is over the stockholders and consumers of the
product of the Labor Trust have an opportunity TO
take an account of the stock and examine the
balance sheet which clearly shows the labor ag-
tator to be a non-produCer.
The demands of labor have become 50 oppressive
as to approximate the limit of endurance. We
shall devise WAYS and means at the convention OF
meeting the present situation through the power OF
persuasion by demand for the enforcement or
the Law.