The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-06-16
advertiser ncnt Is Paido or " Edwin Sclvn)
Chronicle Of
The UnAmerican Closed Shop Must Go!


difference between the employer who forces Closed Shop
his unwilling employees and the walking delegate who forces
Closed Shop the unwilling employer?
We fight those sorry types of employer who put profit
above principle who through weakness or cowardice
after having agreed tand together for the right desert
their fellows when the walking delegate pushes his way into
the private office raps his knuckes the DESK and
nounces what Closed Shop demands.
We fight impartially the domineering and alien labor
leaders and those ussoong business and academic
theorists who Closed Shops strongest allies.
We fight to eliminate and for all the basic cause
of industrial troubles the mpeng force back of the propa
ganda that he workers rise up and take industry
We believe this thing will have be fought finish
all over the United Sates-the the better We claim
the issue clear cut, unmstakabe Shall Amercanism
Bolshevism rule? There is for both in this
country.
We fight for the coming of the day when the American
skilled mechanic will not have choose between union
card and accident insurance policy before he acor
at his trade.
We fight for the right of the great mass of unorganized
workers to living and for those real Americans who
are literally forced into Closed Shop Labor Unions by
threats of physical violence ostracsm of wife and children
loss of employment
We fight for cooperation between employer and employee
for an of brohery love among all Americans whatever
their station in life for speedy return the time-tred
and experenctested principles fathers for revival
OF the odfashoned Amercansm that protects the citizen
who prefers his economic independence industrial free
dom to signing away his brhrgh with application for
Union membership.
We fight for the returned soldiers and sailors to have
chance to make living in the country save which they
offered their lives Closed Shop says these shall not have
employment without its consent and then only in instances
where the needy exserce is willing join its organ
zation and tribute The autocrats Closed Shop who
he nd
and woman who loves the flag the same who were Hun
sympathizers traitors sedtonss and active obstruction
lists during the Some of them caught rehanded
and they now comprise the political prisoners for release
OF whom the labor newspapers are loudly calling.
We fight un-American organization that is led bv
criminals Under the guise general strike it attempted
to start in Seattle revolution whose purpose was to SUD-
plant our American form of with the Russian
Sovets which are the embodiment of organized plumber and
rapne wholesale buchey of all who have wealth. and the
ustful possession OF women as property
has since attempted the thing in Canada 1t is only
awaiting favorable opportunity to again make the attempt
on a larger scale-in the United States
We fight against a monster that could have grown
powerful enough to challenge the supremacy of Government
only through the connivance of demagogc public officials
he supne acescence of cowardy business men, and the
indifference OF the general public This monster
etards production adds to the of every single item
that enters into daily life and dictates alike to employer and
empoye TO the politician and the press This monster is
the Labor Trustthe highest monopoly and from the eco
nomc point of view the most dangerous MONOPOLY in the
World from the political point of view has become with
menace with which civilization has to contend
All of the things enumerated above and more 90 70
make up the Closed Shop . ~
n 10 you as an American citizen, taxpayer, home
in Seattle, in the Pacific Northwest in the United States9