Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1920-12-17
AMERICAN PLAN" SIMPLY
RETiTLiNG OF SCHEME
TO DESTROY unloNisM

The hysteria OF some employers in
America on the growth and influence
OF organized labor lis, TO say the least.
sympathetic. but their attempt to fos.
ter the Anticipated scheme Of the
open shop" on the American people
under the guise OF The American
Plan" is the height of sophistry.
One should not be deceived as to
what the so-called American Plan"
stands for 1t Is the retitling of the
scheme of the manufacturers OF q
decade past who set out 10 crush the
movement OF organization among the
working men and women of this con-
ttinent under the banner of the open
shop" and the sugar-coating Ia repre-
scented In the following apparently
harmless words:
"By use of the term American
Plan of employment we mean that all
men shall have equal rights to work
on any and all projects without regard
to affliation or naturalization with or.
ganized labor. We consider Il the
fundamental constitutional right OF
every employee to sell his services
where he may without fear of him
drance."
The Inconsistency of the quotation
above Is presented in the following
parallel requoted, which reads: I'VE
mean that all men shall have equal
rights to work on any and all projects
without regard to utilization or non
affliation with organized labor" The
words affiliate or non-affiliate with
organized labor Is hypocrisy Of the
worst sort for the reason that II OBJ
viously proposes non-affiliation with
organized labor. That this Is true Is
borne out by the following language:
I'VE consider it the fundamental con-
stitutional right of every employe to
sell his services where he may with
out fear of hindrance." ITO sell his
services where he may without fear
of hindrance" can have but one inter
probation, and that is that the employ
ers propose by disorganization OF the
trade union movement to place the
workers in position where they will
be compelled by circumstances to
"sell their services" at rate that will
disregard the rights of their fellow
workers.
The one new~angle to the present
hysteria of the employers as present
ed in portion of their program reads:
The American Plan recognizes the
right of collective bargaining between
the employed and the employer for
the establishment and maintenance of
fair wages and proper working condi-
tons for honest services and sstisfac-
tory output"
What does the analysis OF this new
matter in the program of the en-
ployers to save the working men and
women of America present! First,
that the organizations of labor shall
be destroyed and then the principle
of collective bargaining shall follow.
To whom shall the principle OF collect
i've bargaining apply? Since II is the
purpose to destroy the trade union
movement there can be but one ree-
sonable answer, and that Ii that "em-
ployer organization and the employ
ers shall deal collectively. Since this
is the only apparent means by which
collective bargaining can be con-
Quoted under the scheme, then 1t is
reasonable to inquire, who is to de-
termine what fair wages and proper
working conditions are to be? Like
wise it is OF additional importance to
inquire as to who shall determine
whether honest service and satisfac-
tory output" has been given? Since
the plan is to pull the teeth OF the
workers" to disarm them OF their col
leetiye strength and coordination
which can only come through the in
ternational trade union movement, 1t
must follow that the employer is to
determine what constitutes honest
service and satisfactory outputs" or.
In other words, the same species OF
collective bargaining that applied in
the days of the chattel slave shall be
reintroduced in this the twentieth
century period of civilization under
the guise of The American Plan"
The open shop program OF the days
of Van Cleaye. Post and Kirby, re-
juvenated by the Chamber of Com
MERGE OF the United States under the
alIuring title, THE American Plan
is revolutionary and absolutely the
most vicious scheme for the under
mining of stable governments that
has ever been conceived.
Governments are not things separ-
ate and distinct from peoples. Gov
ernments are peoples, and the stabili-
ty, prosperity, intellectually and
Christianity of the governments are
calculated by the standards of the
people.
Organized labor is not revolution.
AIRY. II is evolutionary. II is an insti.
tuition that moves forward and not
backward 1t is an institution repre-
sentative OF the great overwhelming
mass of the peoples of all nations OF
the world whether all peoples may DO
affiliated with il or not. 1t is an IN
stitution nevertheless representing
the workers, the producers, who con-
+stitute the great bulk of humankind.
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