The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-05-21
Open SHOPPERS
HOPE TO CRUSH q
aim OF UNIONS.
Bureau Of Industrial Research
Exposes Plan Of Campaign Of
Large Employers.

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Every suspicion of the unworthy
motive back Of the "open shop drive
now being waged in 240 cities i'll ~
states has been confirmed by an it,
quiry conducted by the bureau Of in
dustrial research, New York, the re-
suits of which are contained in PAM
phlet recently issued.
The report. written by Savel Zin-
and, collects the published statements
and reports Of manufacturers, bankers
and employers of labor, individually
and as members of associations. Out
of the mouths Of the men who talk
most about Americanism and the
finland gathers the story of the en-
scheme for destroying the labor
unions.
The various local organizations con-
Quoting "open Shop campaigns are
following a program furnished from
central source and are covering their
real purpose-destruction Of trade TN
ionism-by flying the flags of patrl-
otto wartime propaganda" The
movement, the report continues, lad
vances in the name Of democracy,
ISM"
Program of ReactiOnaries.
The policy Of the open shop or
CARNATIONS is summarized as follows:
Propaganda declaring the tyranny
Of the unions, waste; in union shop
from inefficient workmen. American
IDEAS of government against union
shop.
Expulsion of members of unions,
Financial aid to employers who are
in conflict with unions.
Refusal OF credit and raw materials
to employers who do not adopt anti
union tactics.
Bribing trade-union leaders and
then discrediting unionism before the
people.
Using the blacklist against trade
union men.
Employing "under-cover men" in
the plant to spy on those VINO are agi-
tating for organization Of the workers.
Under-cover men used in unions to
gain confidential information regard
| ing moves to be made by the union.
Organization of strikebreakers and
| counter-sluggers.
Organization Of shop committees to
counterbalance the trade-union.
Organization Of Hobbies to influence
anti-labor legislation.
The use Of company-pa!d public Of
ficials.
Started After Steel Strike.
Pointing out that the movement for
the "open shop" is as old as the trade
union movement itself, the bureau of
| industrial research says the present
| campaign appears to have got fairly
| under way with the triumphant fight
! Of the United States Steel corporation
against the attempt Of the A. +. Of l..
| to organize the steel industry which
came to head in the great strike Of
1919"
The campaign has taken unto itself
| all the signs Of a "holy war;" It's paid
publicity agents have garnered patri-
| otto appeals and deal at length with
| those sacred terms, democracy and
| human rights. They have rung
changes on all Of them in the propa-
ganda material they have given out to
| employers, to patriotic women. to
| farmers who understand little of the
| Industrial struggle. and even to work.
| men who are not familiar with the
| facts.
| Back of the local organizations,
"guiding, inspiring, supplying morale
and sometimes funds" are the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
the National Metal Trades association
and the American Bankers associa-
ton. In support of his charges, Zim-
and publishes extracts from circulars
issued by these organizations.
Carefully Planned Campaign.
'The proponents Of the open shop"
he says, assert that the drive was and
is a product Of spontaneous combus-
ton, that it caught fire here and
there, spread and grew like prairie
fire. The appearance Of national and
local open shop organizations in many
places at once. the sudden wide rally
ing of chambers of commerce, rotary
clubs, bankers and manufacturers
associations, is not entirely devoid az
significance"