The Connecticut labor press., 1920-11-27
OPEN SHOPPERS" DECLARATION OF
 WAR IS UNWISE
Determination to Defeat Labor Pronounced Untimely and Dang
 Nerous by Prominent Professor.
HE ISSUES WARNING
Reaction Makes Revolution and Disastrous Consequences May
 Follow.

Rev. Jones I. Corrigan, s. IT., pro lessor of ethics in Boston College, addressed lately f,10u teachers of the Boston schools. attacking the "open shop" campaign of certain employers associations in the United States. The open shop" fight IS growing i'll inten- slty and warnings have been repeatedly gwen out that the coming winter will see more and more attempts by en- ployers to reject collective bargaining.
 Father Corrigan said Capitals declaration of war upon labor under the gulse of a campaign for the open shop has come at a most unfortunate time, and will have disastrous conse- quences unless checked at once Backed by the triple alliance of winter indus trial depression and unemployment, the fopen shop campaign may have a tenn porary success, but Tn the long run, which may be very soon, the counter offensive of radical forces, which have been recruited by the fatal and futile course of reaction, will sweep away the last vestIges of industrial peace and bring about far-reaching economic changes that may not be altogether to the liking of our financial and indus trial interests"
 Reaction Makes Revolution.
 In spite of what is going on in Europe, many American employers have not yet, realized that reaction makes revolution. Protesting that they are not opposing collective bargaining the 4open shop" campaigners are using the speci- ous plea of freedom for the individual worker. h reality, however, they are fighting labor unions, collective bar gaining, the living wage, that degree of | n r,f.< Ia by labor unions, and the whole labor movement
 The bishops program of social re- construction says that 1t IS to be hoped that the right of labor to organize and to deal with employers through chosen ed into question" Pope Leo, years be- fore, emphasized the right of labor to organize and the great benefit to Be ob- tained from 1t. The recent pastoral letter Of the American hierachy called attention to the right of the workers to foster and maintain the kind of orr ganlzation that Is necessary and that will be most effective Tn securing their welfare"
 Danger of "open Shop. :,
 Dr. John A Ryan in the recent pamphlet of the National Catholic Vel fare Council on Capital and Labor, while advocating shop committees and proft-sharing, declares that, aas com pared with capital, labor has always been the weaker party in negotiations about wages and other conditions of employment To obtain a position of approximately equal bargaining power, laborers must act as body, and the in diyiduals who represent them in the bargaining process must be the most effective that they can find. Such rep resentatives are generally the officers of the unions.
 There is grave danger that the .topen- shop" campaign may precipitate wide spread industrial warfare. Many en- p1oyers have learned for the first time the strength of unions, and they will not give up without a struggle Our present economic life" said Father Cor rigan, 'is in process of Aux. Reaction ary forces are striving to restrain it within the old forms and molds. but 1t were as well to try to push back Niagara.