Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1920-12-17

source the humanitarian and con-
structive thought OF the work. has
emanated. Certainly II cannot be said
that II has come from the Dormant
or satisfied minds. but rather II has
come from the active. energetic prot.
estants who had a grievance and who.
Notwithstanding the abridgements
that have been made 20 prevent thei
speaking and writing, they neverthe
iess have been heard.
Now comes the latest hysteria fos
tered by the Chamber OF Commerce OF
the country that proposes normally
Such q purpose and such term Is
best translated into the word "reae
ton" or deterioration" and while
1t may be true that this spasmodic ef.
fort may avail many OF those who arr
engaged In IT'S precipitancy. yet II IL
reasonable to expect, IL We are TO b
guided By the experience Of the past,
that ii will despair md fail OF its
own momentum for the very simple
and yet forcefui reaso on that Il is in
contravention OF the very nature OF
human aspirations.
The fact Is that certain members of
the Chamber OF Commerce. large aud
influential employers who have here.
tofore profted by confusions/are de-
sirous of repeating" and while they
realize that II is but makeshift
scheme, they are in hopes neyerthe
less of securing sufficient results from
the campaign to compensate them and
to check momentarlly the growth OF
the movement Of orr nized labor,
AMI In Fnr 81
should be said. is to promote the hap
piness and weli-being Of those who
toll
Lenine and Trotsky. through their,
Bolshevist party. are endeayoring to
sovelise Russia: they have confis,
cated property; they have decreed
that free men shall not own their
homes; they are revolutionists and
the world has generally agreed that
they are radicals OF the most ad
vanced type Moreover, the most in
expsrienced student OF economies and
OF human psychology will agree to the
utter impracticability OF the Bolshe.
visit philosophy. The american trade
union movement Is opposed to this
political and industrial impossibieism.
II stands for evolutionary tendencies
predicated upon understanding.
Let us draw the parallel between
the Bolshevists and the Chamber of
Commerce. or those members Of 1t
who have rejuvenated the failure of
the past. as is true In the case of lie.
nine and Trotsky. The Chamber OF
Commerce, or at least those respo
BILE for the so-called American Plan"
topen shop scheme, are endeavoT &
to monopolize the material things of
America In the interest of few and
to the disadvantage OF the many. The
program contemplates the confscation
Of property because their theory of
collective bargaining disarms and
makes helpless the workers in con.
serving wage standards necessary In
the maintenance of homes. and by
the same rule they have decreed that
free men, the workers, shall not own
their homes because they would
make II impossible through their bu-
reaucratic control.
The American trade union move
ment is opposed to this political and
industrial impossibleism advocated by
certain elements of the Chamber of
Commerce because IL Is revolution
airy. vicious and selfish. The interna-
tionai trade union movement will
therefore resist with the same ener-
gies the socalled open shop move
ment as they will the efforts OF Lee
nine and Trotsky to sovietize the
world. both being reactionary and des-
tined to the same en- while parading
under somewhat different cloaks and
titles.
The American Federation OF Labor
and the Canada Trades and Labor
Congress will me- the present spas
modic movement OF the Chamber of
Commerce as II has always met such
reactionary issues.-Major George l.
Berry. Printing Pressmen's Union.