Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-01-28
AopEN SHOP Is ROAD
TO DISASTER ros The
WORKING MASSES

! TIE following timely appeal Is pub.
Iiished IN \ ieaflet hs the Central Ia.
Ihor Union Of philadelphia. which -.
1qnesls labor organizations 10 reprint
III and distribute II as widely a. pos.
Islhle:
The open shop Is the onsa road to
1 disaster for organised workers Il Is
Ithe open road To mastery ~ the en-
a 1plosing class. That Is why intelligent
4 3workinkmen oppose II that Is why
lemployink masters favor IL
] For workingmen il IS the entering
wedge by which organization is slowly
|tirannled. wages are reduced. hours
liengthened and the rank and ale are
iroduoed 20 soryile submission to heart.
less bosses.
1 Nowhere else In the modern world
Ido the employing masters oppose the
junior shop as they da here A TIRE.
lmendous drive Is being made by the
Ienployine class all over the country
Ito crush nnionism Millions Of dol
lars have been contributed for the pnr.
Ipose. Quietly gathering their forces.
1ketting the aid nf chambers of com
lmerce and civic organizations. the
masters nj industry se.k 10 establish
lnnehailenged domination through the
open shop.
4 In England this struggle has been
llonE ago fought to conclusion The
tsame Il true of Canada IN hoth coun.
ltries the right OF organisation Of shor
land factory, mine and mil. IL con
lceded. II has haan eliminated from
the realm of controversy. Bet the
'workingmen of free America arc
forced TO fight for an elemental right
THAT IL taken for granted in countries
lwhere monarchy itself Elm survives.
The open shop Is related 10 'Amerl.
lcanism' by our enemies. No more
class hypocrisy has ever been dis.
lplayed. The slave pens OF the Gary
lateel trust are typical examples OF
t0pen shop Americanism. Although the
Ieight-hour day has been long ago con.
ceded In the steel industry OF England.
lGermany and other. countries, the
United States IL the only country In
the world where workingman wor
twelve hours per day and seven days
e week. This Is open shop American.
liam
Denomination Is forbidden. He who
talks II In discharged. He who at
itempts to organize is slugged. Spice
TOT the companies swarm In the mill
They stink IN the streets. In the pool
rooms. In the moviee, at public gath.
orings---everywhere that workinEmen
1 gRther the company spy Is present
8nspicion, fear, distrust and hatred
brood over tho workers The friend
lXcrking by their side may be q spy,
- - alled With this breodinS mes
facs that dogs their heels, This II open
|shop sAmericanism'
welfare work of the omen shop
masters Of Garyism IN substituted for
unionism. together with the company
union. Homes are purchased from
the company by the workers on easy
payments. When real strike comes
the welfare work Is seen to be q
scourge to whip the slaves back TO
their pens. The workers are eyicted
from their homes. except those who.
consent to betray their brothers by
going to work. II places a premium
on treachery. This Is open shop Amer.
! icanism.'
"The company union is plaything
OF the employment masters. The
workers organize like sheep under
the eyes of the BOSSES Officials are
chosen To preside over this abortion
of unionism. Any genuine grievances
cannot be discussed under the eyes
of the agents of the masters He
who attempts II soon finds that he Is
discharged for some trivial reason
The workers are cowed They submit
TO injustice and mereiless robbery
This is open shop 'Amerieanism
Brothers In the army OF labor:
Shall we submit to what our brothers
In the monarchies of Europe viii not
tolerate? To do so would be TO brand
ourselves as craven towards and mer-
| IL the contempt of our children. il
would be TO play false TO the martyrs
OF the labor movement in this coun-
try. Our fathers. beginning In the
20s OF the last century, formed their
! first enduring unions. Some went
down In ruins, but their sons rebuilt
them again and again. Through strue
giles, disappointments, sacrifices and
defeats, they struggled on through the
'40s. the SOS and the Cos
Then came the Civil War. and the
unions all but disappeared With
peace a new generation took up the
old task. and through the nineteenth
century repeated this struggle. Now
we are In the twentieth century and
at the end OF war to make the world
safe for democracy Safe for any
country but the United States; safe
for the employing masters OF indus
| try,
What trayesty, We are called
to the fields of Flanders while these
employing upstarts remained at home
and accumulated enormous gains.
Some OF our brothers lie in graves
across the Atlantic Many have re.
turned. and they are now told by the
employing upstarts that organization
OF labor Is 'un-Americant' Would that
our brothers. now fertilizing the felds
OF France. would witness this specta.
Gle In the country for which they gave
their lives! Yet the masters tell US
this Is open shop 'Amerieanism.'
Shall we submit? Shah we permit
this stark impudence, this attempt 10
capitalize patriotism for dirty mate