Arizona republican., 1920-03-15
Organized Labor

A good deal of confusion Phoenix as to
 the for the shop in the building traces. both sides have confounded thls : 51novement with fight against organized labor thing especially disclaimed in the program of the z 7. .sIohoenix Building Open Shop Association adopted at the High School Auditorium meeting last Tuesday According that plan each craft may
 recognized but the right craft to interfere
 ith the shop affecting another craft is denied such interference the attempt to put in the .. universal system all the trouble. 2 That been defeated in Phoenix; rate. de- . ~t feat has been assured
 who have accurately gauged this ' Shop movement and have in it only campaign organized labor, thought The Republican advocating open shop the building trades and al the same time maintaining with Typographical Union. been consistent. As matter of fact it's is in entire with the of the shop association, adopted at the meeting of last Tuesday and in
 with all declarations shop advocates preceding the adoption plan.
 It by the the building trades alone that proposed to bring in the universal car6 system ut { mately if that had succeeded effort would have been fooIishy made to "cose" the town But the association not anticipating that. The z building trades movement the thing aimed at. To have farther would been fight against organized labor principle that would have been disturbing disastrous
 The printing trade. is, that part
 ployed in the making newspapers. peculiar
 that it is thoroughly organized than any other l
 than in any other part of the country Shops are -.cIassed union. -unon open contract We know of no shop of the Rocky
 Mountains of only one successful non-,lnon shop : the Los Angeles Times The printers, by the way, recognize no such thing shop though times they permit employment of their shops where both union and non-union printers 1. employed. print shop is either union : non-union.
 The Republican the other papers of Phoenix, : has been union shop since the organization the union, about twenty years ago. During hat time its relations with the union pleas ant and, may profitable both ourselves and our patrons This paper has been able to serve
 readers anc advertisers reguarly, something {: at times it might not have done if it guaranteed by contract
 .s A newspaper requiring services of a large
 humber of men is rather rrecarious footing with out such guaranty unless great paper such
 as the Los Angeles Times. it is prepared . and train it's employees thus maintain a con- stant upon which o draw
 = The American Publishers Association of which The Republican is member and which embraces practicayAll of the leading this try has contract with the International Typo
 graphical Union, designed to promote peace
 This contract provides arbitration of all dis
 putes that may arise between it's members ~fypographicai unions Members avail them sz selves of this provision and they may only by sisnifying in advance that do so Some =. of the members signfed but most of 1@ them-have done have become parties to the Associaton-I. T. L.. We mention tbis - only to show the of the newspaners toward the union Relative contract betw tbe
 union and The Republican, eleven it's printers quit @ just before the beginning of heavy There was ~ no trouble with the union. Both union and The = Republican were under signed last Octo- - ber It was now to the union get busy under
 the contract. It did brought into the com N posing room that night very notice enouph loyal members of the so hat The Repnbcan on the street
 We have matter at considerable length for several purposes, being to 2@ show that unonism is involved in the present controversy in Phoenix only the bad exercise of NS power by the unions the building trades - That is thing that be kept straight in tbe 4v public
 Organized labor has o stay That is 2 fact zrecognzed by all the foremost employers of the coun E6 try It was declared by John D. Rockefeller Jr at E@ the Atlantic City conference ago when be tod
 his hearers that the doctrine collective bargaining = must be henceforth. recognized.
 Whether not organized is a roo7 or- .,,;, E<- no longer subject dscussion anyway that
 1depencs upon the point view. thing to do is ia Esrnake the best of it, may believe to crrb E the evil of it, and that what association fs fry
 ing to do in the movement to prevent the bniIdo. .tFtrades Aom introducing universal card s,sten, ~ Dennotons Tending to oemoraIjzation