Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-11-16
Open SHOP BODIES
BEING FORMED BY
TEXAS Employers
Alarm Evidenced by Labor I'm
ions When New Organize
tons Are Launched.

! Austin. Tex, Nov. 15.-When c.
NJ. Cureton. state attorney general,
ruled recently that open shop asso-
Citations may be incorporated under
the laws of Texas. the way was paved
for banding together OF contractors,
manufacturers and employers Of lab
or generally in common cause. The
first organization Of this kind was
the Open Shop association of Beau
mont which filed its charter in the
Secretary of States office few days
ago. In Austin more than 200 EN-
ployers OF labor have just signed in
corporation papers of the Austin OPP
en- Shop association. Similar organ;-
cations are to be formed in San An
tonic and other cities and towns Of
the state. it is announced.
This new movement on the part Of
employers is causing great alarm
among union labor men. This is
shown by the action Of the Austin
i Trades council in taking up the mat
ter for special discussion and consid
Grafton and Of the union labor organ
ization of Beaumont in making a
strong appeal by wire to the Secre-
tary of State not TO file the charter
/ of the Open Shop association Of
Beaumont.
+ Papers in Legal Form.
When the Incorporation papers
reached the secretary of state he re-
ferred them to the attorney general,
who went over them carefully and
then advised that the law as to fl
ing the charter was mandatory, it
bein gin proper form.
The purpose clause reads as fol-
lows:
This corporation is organized for
an educational undertaking, to wit:
For the purpose Of collecting and dis
seminating information to the public
showing the advantages to the public
showing the advantages to the public
Of the open shop in the manufacture,
sale and distribute nof goods. wares
ard merchandise in the city Of Beau
mont, ard jefferson county, Texas,
and adjoining territory.
ITO prevent and avert industrial
disturbances; to harmonic differ
ences between employers and employ
es, with justice to all concerned, and
to insist in the enforcement of the
laws Of the land.
To oppose restriction Of output,
sympathetic strikes, lockous and boy
colts and illegal persecution of in
dividuals, all of which are a menace
to the industrial progress of our COM
munity and our country and tend to
the undermining of constitutional
rights.
Purposes Outlined
"To secure for employers and en-
ployes the freedom of individual con-
tract in the matter of employment.
To insure everyone his right to earn
a living regardless of his membership
or non-membership in any organiza-
ton.
ITO prevent any interference with
persons seeking through honest eff
fort to work and earn an honest liv-
ing. To protect everyone in his law
full right to conduct his business or
affairs as he deems proper, so long
3 as he does not encroach on the rights
of others"
The charter is for a period of 50
years and there is no capital stock
The persons procuring the charter are
named as P A. Heisig and John N
of jasper county.
| Trades Council Protests.
The telegram of protest was sent
from Beaumont by J. C. Brammer
. president of the Beaumont Building
= Trades council, and A. E. Fisher
president of the Trades and Labor as
g, sembly. 1t was to the effect thai
), 'the laboring people of Beaumont re
. specially ask that granting of char
: ter for open shop association of JEFF
. ferson county be withheld until 70.
,, have report from United States gov
g eminent agent now en- route to Beau
!, mont to investigate the open shop as
: ISOLATION"
: No knowledge is had here that tn
i federal government had any occasion
;, to investigate the open shop asso
citation. 1t is stated, however, tina
y the organization is willing to be in
vestigated. As matter of fact, tn
granting of the charter means
r stright fight for the open shop IL
Beaumont ard possiblV in other cite