The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-08
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' dustriai Association of America has for It's platform of principles the Following terse pIanks; No closed shop: no re- striction as to the use of tools. machin- cry or material except such as are un- safe; md limitation of output no re- striction as to the number of appren- tices and helpers when of proper age; no boycott; no sympathetic strikes; no sacrifice of independent workmen to the labor unionst no compulsory use of the union label"
 These are the declarations in their platform and of them President Eliot of Harvard University says: l find every one of these principles to be in defense of Private and Public Liberty" and he is right. What Is known as the closed shop Is one of the greatest out rages that laboring men are ever com pelled to submit to. It simply means that the owners and managers of a shop, of any kind where labor is ern- ployed. shall not employ any man un- less he belongs to a labor union. An employer of labor ought to be the best and only judge of the men he has to work for him. If he should have or keep an incompetent engineer. niaehin- ist or other person whose ignorance or uniitness would endanger the other ern- object and insist on his dismissal. That Is as far as they should be allowed to go in respect to the employment of labor. Anything else is to make the man who pays the bills and is respon- sible for the success of the business the for closed shop Is outrageous and should never be submitted to. The only adequate remedy will be for the mana gers of any industrial business to pos- ltively refuse employment to any one who belongs to labor union. That would be fighting them on their own grouid, and with their own weapons, and the plan would be effective.
 The same reasoning applies to the limitations of output and to the number of apprentices and helpers These arc matters belonging wholly to the own CTS and managers of any business. They are the ones who can best judge of the quantity of work they shali put on the market and any interference with their right to do so is tyrannical. The same Is true of the employment of helpers and apprentices. The employer knows best how many of them he can profit ably use and should submit to no in- terference in that respect:
 The other principles set forth In the platform are equally commendable. The boycott is cowardly method of en- forcing unjust demands. The sympa- thetic strike is a method by which dis satisfied men in, one business seek to coerce those who have no cause of complaint to join them in the strike. It is communism and socialism in their worst form, and is near akin to anar' ehy. Honest working men should not resort to such unfairness and self-re- specting capital should not be bullied and bulldozed into submitting to this kind of coercion.
 The demands so often made and en- forced by unions that man in aay in- dustrial business shall not employ any but union labor is of piece with the rest, and needs mo further comment. Stiil more objectionable is the insist ence on the use of the union label. Let us give Us case in point. At Niagara Falls, one of the prosperous smaller cities of New York, the bakers were forced by the unions to paste the union label on every loaf of bread they sold! The attention of the doctors and health officers was called to the matter and they united in a circular letter to the people telling of ''the filthy manner" used in afixing the labels, with the re- suit that the bakers were compelled to discontinue the use of such labels.
 This Is but a specimen of the ex- tremes to which union intolerance will go and the abject submission of the people. The idea of one not being al- lowed to purchase or eat loaf of bread. A cake or a pie unless it is garnished with the unions badge of servility, is a shameful comment on the American peoples claims of independence. We neeu not US ouA pl iSSN "S NhS tAiAS " hear that a church and it's minister have been boycotted and blacklisted for using Bibles and hymn books which have no union label on them. That would be on a par with some other ex- actions that have been submitted to.
 Are we really an independent and self respecting people?