The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-27
LABOR RIDING TO A FALL

To the Editor Banner:
I Passing all bounds in arrogance and
lured on by the ignus fatuus of an
limited graft and power, union labor
! leaders are riding to hard fall and
seem likely to carry with them the
entire structure of organized labor,
which in its inception had many ad-
mirable aims and doubtless has ac-
complished some good things for its
members, of a constructive character.
All over the land, from Austin, Tex
as to Warsaw, Wis, from Atlanta.
Ga. to the state of Washington, cities
are organizing their industries to
fight the closed shop and maintain
the open shop.
One city says in it's announcement
of this policy: "The open shop is a
plan without discrimination and ac-
cords to every man and woman who
labors 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 will of society,"
The demands of unions have be
come boomerang which is on its re-
turn trip and is striking the thrower
with tremendous force, Various or.
ganizations are being formed by in
dustrial concerns to uphold the right
Of all to work and of employees 90
! 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 boycotts, have found
workmen to use materials banned by
! the unions and have striven success
| fully in every way to render or no
effect the ill designed efforts of pow
er-made leaders.
The child building his blocks into
tower gets on famously until 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 perilously.
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
ment is started to curb and destroy
the strangle-hoId On industry.
The former open-shop is fast be-
coming an undesirable factor in any
organization. That he is a member
of a body dominated by few lead
ers elected and continued in office in
most cases by a slugging crew. body
in which the rank and file ordinarily
have practically no voice, is recogniz-
ed and large numbers of present mem
hers of unions welcome the liberation
from irksome control and turn to their
duties with renewed interest when the
real open shop is offered them and
fear of the union is removed.
It has been an anomalous situation.
labor oligaFchy in free country,
a Frankenstein taking toll of its ere
ators and held under the hand Of the
greater and -depost 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 cen
ters where the cancer of unionisn,
has been of long standing and is high
" organized still resists assaults but
they will fall 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.
W. E. DUNN. Jr.