The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-12

achievement OF industrMi freedom. IL
Is denied that there is any one directing
force or even a central clearing house
for open shop information.
The movement is said TO have been
started in each community by public
dissatisfaction with labor conditions ag-
gravated during the war by strikes and
excessive demands and then and later
by restricted production, which is held
largely responsible for the high cost OF
living.
There was nothing secret about tho
referendum vote Of the Chamber OF Com
merce of the United States, the results
of which were announced on June 80
last. One of the twelve principles of
industrial relations advanced by q spe-
ciaI committee of the chambers dlrec-
tors upheld the right of open shop opera
ton. This the members of the Chamber
OF Commerce Of the United States adopt
ed by vote of 1865 to 4.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers has an open shop department
which has started to publish periodical
bulletins "of the latest and most au-
thoritative news OF the open shop in
industry" "Open Shop Bulletin No. T.
is dated November /.
In Denver the Rotary. Kiwanis
Optmist and Lions clubs have Endorsed
open shop resolutions adopted last
spring by the Denver Civic and Com
mercial Association. The Cleveland
Ohio, Chamber Of Commerce announced
on October q that 1t believes In the
open shop-the real open shop-in which
every workers chance IS as good as
any other workers chance; the open
shop from which no worker is shut out
because he holds a union card and from
tUht q because
he has no union card"
The Citizens Alliance Of Minneapolis
reports: I'VE believe there 10 no town
in the United States nearer 100 per cent.
open shop than we are. All factories
have been run on the open shop basis
for years. and this year the building
contractors went the same way" The
Associated Industries OF Tacoma re-
ports that S0.7 per cent. of the members
now operate under the open shop plan
and that 94.6 per cent. of the employees
are free from union dictation.
No Industrial Disturbances.
The Merchants, Manufacturers and
Employers Association Of Stockton, Cal.
says: stockton Is better than eighty
per cent open shop. We are free from
Industrial disturbances, and all classes
of labor are working side by side
without friction. After strike Of sew
eral weeks the tailors of Albany, N. T.,
established the open shop. Sixty-three
proprietors of st. Louis hotels began to
operate exclusively on the open shop
basis on October /. The open shop has
been Endorsed by 10S industrial organ
izations in New York State.
A bulletin Of the Associated EN-
ployers Of Indianapolis declares:
'Thirty.one new Industries have actually
located here since January 1, 1920. due
largely to open shop conditions. "Presi-
dent Levy of the Pacific Coast Associa-
ton Of Merchant Tailors says that
''wonderful' is too mild a word for the
results of the open shop. Production Is
far greater than before and with the
same number Of men. which naturally
reduces the cost of making, giving US .
reasonable figure to sell clothes at
fair price," he writes.
Between January and November
last year Tacoma had twelve industrial
strikes. resulting in wage losses OF
S3.470,000 and employers losses OF
1851 900. The Associated Industries,
which supports the open shop. has been
In existence a year. In that time there
have been four strikes, and the organ
ization reports the year as being one
of almost complete Industrial harmony
compared with the preceding twelve
months" 1t is we'll known that Seattle
was ravaged by strikes until the
adoption OF the American plan" and
the formation Of the Associated Indus
tries of Seattle. Since then. II is said,
every strike has been settled on an open
shop basis.