Arizona republican., 1919-10-07

and materials on the basis of their own requirements. efficiency of work, and quality and price of materials being the governing factors.
 For a just open shop there can be no discrimination by any general con- tractor either against union sub-con- tractors or employees.
 Closed Shop
 The closed shop in the building trades is that condition under which union men are not allowed to work on the same job or in the same shop with non- union men, although of another craft, or to handle or use in their several em- ployments material which has been supplied by dealer who has been de- clared unfair by the council (building trades council) because of the employ ment by him of non- union workmen. The trades council is the vehicle for enforcing these conditions, and the weapon used is the boycott. A boycott lis imposed by the trades council by simply placing on what is known as the unfair list the name of the employer whom they desire to coerce into accept [ ing the closed shop.
 When the closed shop is proclaimed for a given community. all employers affected thereby must enter into an agreement with the Building Trades Council, generally formal contract, which requires on the part of the em- ployer, that all work, old or new, for his use or by him shall be done by men carrying the working card of the trades council; that the employer will
 enforce all demands of the Trades Council; the employer must permit the | trades council to have steward on every job, whose duty is to see that all the demands and requirements of the trades council are met. This stew ard also has the power to order all
 men off the job if he believes that the
 rules of the trades council are being : violated in any respect. The employ !, CT may not use the product of a con ]; cern declared unfair in any of his ac- , tivities. In return for this. the trades
 council agrees to consider the em- ployer as flair" Any refusal on tho ) part of the employer will incur fo1 l, him the penalty of being declared l unfair" by the Trades Council. Th' t result of such a declaration is boy colt under the orders of the Trade : Council the object of which is to SC l cure the compliance of the employer l Under the boycott. all members 0 S trades unions affiliated with the trade Q council cannot work for the employe n or for any person or firm who deal
 with him or his products; under tn O union rule they cannot work upon 0 Il handle any material produced or sup 2 piled by the unfair employer or by an s one dealing with him.
 IT It should be borne m mind that tn d word "unfair" as thus used has tech 8 nical meaning. The employer may gen l. orally be fair, he may exceed the de e mands of the trades unions as to seal IS of wages, hours of labor, condition f of advancement etc, but if he em II ploys one non-union man, he may | l. declared unfair.
 o Your committee has given most care al full consideration to the presentation Id made by the contractors and the reI " resentatives of the unions on tn
 question of the 'closed shop" In tf is time at our disposal we have endeay IT ored to obtain all the information pos
 sible on this subject from those wh i- have studied it impartially.
 ", In a recent poll taken by the labC committee of the National Econom
 league of which Ex-President Taft
 president, and whose membership
 composed of men of such nation
 standing as Chas. E. Hughes, Frankl
 K. Lane, Lindley M. Garrison, form
 secretary of war; Charles W. Elliot
 former president of Harvard colleg IF and whose membership also includ
 the late John Mitchell, former pres
 dent of the United Mine Workers fl America, on the question Shall t ai Open Shop Principle Prevail in Amer <" can Industrial Life?" Eighty-fiv T