The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-08-23
LABOR RIDING TO A FALL
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Passing all bounds in arrogance
and lured on by the ignus fatuus of
unlimited graft and power. union la
Dor leaders are riding to a hard fall
and seem likely to carry with them
the entire structure of organized la
Dor, which in its inception had many
admirable aims and doubtless has ac-
complished some good things for its
members, of a constructive charac-
ter.
All over the land. from Austin,
Texas, to Wausaw, Wis, from At
lanta, Ca, to the state of Washing
ton, cities are organizing their indus
tries to fight the closed shop and
maintain the open shop.
One city says in its announcement
of this policy: "The open shop is a
plan without discrimination and ac-
cords to every man and woman who
labers for a living, the constitutional
right to work and live as he or she
chooses to live. restricted only to con-
form to the laws of the land, which
express the majority win of society,"
The demands of unions have be-
come a boomerang which is on its re-
turn trip and is striking the thrower
with tremendous, force. Various or
CARNATIONS are being forced by in
dustrial concerns to uphold the right
of all to work and Of employers to
conduct their own business without
dictation from grating labor leaders
who care nothing for the worker as
long as they are able to extort tribute
from the employer. They have pro-
tected merchants and manufacturers
against union boycotss have found
workmen to use materials banned by
the unions and have strIven success
fully in every way to render of no eff
feet the i'll designed efforts of power
mad leaders.
The child building his blocks into a
tower gets on famously until a last
block carries the center of gravity
outside the base and his structure
falls.
Labor leaders, drunk with power,
unmindful of the power of public
opinion, are putting on the blocks
that will crash their tower to the
ground Already it is rocking peril
ousIy.
General attention is being called as
never before to the injustice of de-
mands now being made and people
who formerly had no interest in labor
organizations are becoming informed
as to the real facts, as result being
willing to back up whatever move
nnent is started to curb and destroy
the strangle-hold on industry.
The former open shop is fast be
coming in seIf-defense closed shop;
closed against the union worker who
is becoming an undesirable factor in
any organization. That he is mem
Der of a body dominated by few
leaders elected and continued in Of
fee in most cases by a smuggling crew
body in which the rank and file ord
inarily have practically no voice, is
recognized and large numbers OF
present members of unions welcome
the liberation from irksome control
and turn TO their duties with renewed
interest when the real open shop il
offered them and fear of the union is
removed.
1t has been an anomalous situation,
a labor oligarchy IN a free country, a
Frankenstein taking toll of its Great
ors and held under the hand Of the
CRATER and despot whose satellites
with fist and gun have demanded and
received obedience.
The spread of the movement TO
make city after city free and to es-
tablish the open shop is being watch
ed with interest as it is succeeding
wherever attempted The largest
centers where the cancer of unionisn
has been of long standing and is high
II organized still resists assaults but
they will fail IN time. New York city
is now successfully breaking the hold
Of unions engaged in trucking and
allied labor and other things viii fol
low.