Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-02-11

IL rests.-Samuel Gompers.
The union is all right and they do not
object to them so lcng as they are
good unions whose members are viii.
ing to take advice from the boss.
when the question Of hours and wages
and working conditions Is up for dts
cussion. whose members will stand
without being tied. The men who
are active In pushing the open shop
bunk are always prating about the
public Ii seems never to have oc-
CURED TO them that the ranks OF or
ganized labor are very large share
lof the public.
Another one OF their stock phrases
Is "a man has q right to run his own
business and SO he has. but he must
first have business 10 run. So has
the labor union right to run its own
business so long as both parties stay
within the law. They have these
rights. and II they run against each
other let them get together and thrash
out their differences and go ahead
This has been done In the building
trades In the Twin Cities for years
and there is no community In the
state Of Illinois the size of Cham.
paign and Urbana that has been as
free from labor troubles
A little investigation by the open
shop crew among the employers in the
building trades viii bring out the fact
that the men who have made and are
still making success In their line,
are opposed to the open shop for the
reason that they know they get better
results dealing with men collectively
than by the so-called American plan,
or open shop plan. The laboring men
OF the Twin Cities are men of at
|least average intelligence and IL the
open shop Ii Tor their good, Why do
'99.9 per cent oppose 1t? II trade
unions are detrimental to their best
II II is so un-American to hold mem
bership in a trade union and deny a
man the right to work on job who
does not hold membership in the
union. then il must be un-American to
deny physician the right to practice
in the hospital when he does not hold
membership in the Medical Society.
is 1t considered un-American to deny
the contractor who has job of street
paving the privilege or right to buy
his cement where he pleases? Which
brand of Americanism will this coun-
try prosper under--the brand dis.
played by organized labor during the
world war, or the brand furnished by
the dollar-a-year patriots and big bus
mess who through the columns of the
subsidized press and magazines a few
months ago bused labor for what they
were pleased to call the laborer's in
efficiency, sabotage, high.handed au-
tocracy, premeditated plan of slow
ing down production and then, sud
denly, without warning or any visible
cause, htey began to use the same
agencies TO herald throughout the
country an enormous overproduction,
and then proceeded to gip the farmer
out of few billions and hamstring
the laboring class by shutting down
mills and factories. and mines; stop
ping all construction work, thereby
throwing thousands of men and
women out of work, not only stopping
their income but destroying their pur-
chasing power. Which brand of Amer
icanization will this country stand
up under the longest?
The headlines tell us of millions un-
employed in Europe-the same head
liness tell of the same conditions In
America. Europes women and chill
dren are being fed by Hoover and the
Red Cross. The American working
men, citizens of the Land OF the Free
and the Home OF the Brave, are being
fed from the soup kitchens and bread
lines under the American plan Over
production in America and under-pro
duction or no production at ali in
Europe. and conditions almost the
same among the working classes In
both countries.
The conditions In Europe are the di-
rect results of the war; the conditions
In America are the results of the EN-
ployers of labor listening TO the
mouthings of John Glenn and other
emissaries Of the American Plan, un-
der which organized labor is expected
TO stand without hitching, and a man
will be allowed to work when he
pleases, where he pleases, and for
what he pleases-a condition that VIII
never prevail In America.