Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-22

circumstances afford to dispense with. Is
a question likely to be answered in the i'm
mediate future by the career and fate Of
the United Transfers Of America.
President Evans. who lives In Bloc ng-
ton, has emphasized the fact that the new
teamsters' International Is not the preroga-
tive of any one big city by opening head
quarters in Aurora, Ill. The headquarters
OF the regular Organization, the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers, are at
Indianapolis. 30 that an exchange of fulmi-
nations may be expected for some time to
come between the two provincial cities.
The United Teamsters Of America starts
with about all New York and quite half of
Chicago. with St. Louis and many other
towns in the equipment. Albert Young. who
becomes international organizer. Is re-
nowned for his energy, and he expects to
land 80 per cent of the Chicago teamsters
In the ranks of the new organization be-
fore winter Whether he can make his
While President Shea had the majority
of delegates, including the representatives
of some powerful unions behind him, 1t Is
true that not few of his men stood for
unions which were mere skeletons. and
which. by virtue of technical fnterpreta-
tons of bylaws were given equality with
unions of real standing. However, Shea
power of persuasion and organization Is to
be reckoned with, and II regularity" and
recognition by the American Federation of
Labor mean anything he has them.
Mr. Bird 8. Coler of New York in a re-
cent address at Yale University had this
much to say on the "open shop There
Is an organized effort just now to break
up all labor unions. The corporations
have entered into an alliance to prevent
their extension and destroy their influence
The campaign Is on for what is known as
the open shop 1t is being prosecuted
without regard to expense and some of the
best brains in the service of the corpora
lions are directing the fight. The rather
attractive battle cry is Labor must be
free! We are told that 1t is protest
against the tyranny of the labor unions.
The open shop means the introduction into
our population of a poorly fed. poorly paid,
ignorant, anarchistic element. 1t means
the employment in the mines of thousands
and thousands Of men whose only weapons
against opposition are the shotgun and the
bomb. 1t means the reduction of wages
and the degradation Of labor. 1t means
overtaXing the wonderful powers of assim-
ilation which the country has. Gentle
men. I am against the open shop and 1
am for the labor unions, because 1T seems
to me- as an American citizen, that the
labor unions are true, progressive organl-
cations"
Rev. Charles stelzle of the Presbyterian
department of church and labor has issued
a. request to the 5000 Presbyterian minis
tiers Of the country to preach on some phase
Of the Industrial question the Sunday be-
designated as labor Sunday" and Mr.
Stelzle says the indications are that the
day will be celebrated by every Presbyte-
rian minister, besides good many of other
denominations
In his weekly letter to the labor papers
Mr. Stelzle says: This effort to popular
ize labor Sunday, making it an annual
affair, cannot but result in great good to
the cause of the workingman. But in
order to make the plan most effective,
workingmen themselves must cooperate
with the churches. I would, therefore,
suggest that wherever a minister takes
advantage of this occasion to preach on
the labor problem, the workingmen in his
community turn out in force to listen to
his address. Wherever 1t is possible, my
suggestion would be that either local
unions or central bodies take official ac-
ton, not only indorsing such a movement
on the part of the minister, but that they
resolve to attend the services in a body
previously notifying the preacher to that
effect.
ION Sunday, September 2. then, the
workingmen of this country have an ap-
pointment to go to church. l shall be
pleased to have any workingman write me