Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-22
NATIONWIDE
COMBINATION
AGAINST LABOR
ey MARTIN A. plLLNoN,
Niee-president Bloomington Trades &
labor Assembly.

The nation wide combination OF en-.
ployers have Just ahent exhausted
their vocabulary IN depuaeiajion ~
the Union Shop The so.called Amer,
lean plan which il a reancd term
Applied ,o the non.union ehop. Is be-
ing held m - q symbol Of .Ameri
eanism," end in an effort h patch M
ease which in is natural state.
would mol hold water. The employers
back Of the se-ealled "onon shop
movement bitterly denounee what
they term the tyranny Of labor an.
ions" II | desired to see an indus.
trial system IN practice under which
tyranny and dospotlsm Of the dark
est tnngleages ruled with high
hand, ! should visit, not Union Shop
whore the workers hargained collect.
/ iNely in matters OF wages aud condi.
tiona. and each cmploye had an equal
voice In determining the price for
which his time aud labor would be
sold 20 the employer aud the condi
tious under which the sale would be
made Instead, II | wished Ia see "ty,
rannya and masterand slave condl-
tlons really exemnlined. | would visit
a factory wherein the su.ealled "open
shop" was In full force aud eject, and
whore the employer exercised abso.
iute and dlotatorial authority over
the workers; where tho employer IL
the sole Judge OF what Is fair" re-.
garding wages and conditions, and he
is In a position 20 arbitrarily fis
wages and lay down the ultmatum
III you don't like your wages, quit -
| The so.called open shop" syatom
means that the employer is permitted
To set the price that ho shall receive
for his product, but the workers are
denied the same right when selling
their time and man power Ca the em
ployer In the ao.called open shop
the employers refuse 10 deal with or
ganiEations of the workers. trade un.
ions are not recognized The ON.
ployers themselves are organized In.
TO what amounts 10 nothing leas than
One Big Union of commerce and In
dustry. but. through their so.called
open shop" they would deny the
workers the right TO organize, or TO
bargain collectively Ia matters that
concern the comfort and weil.being of
themselves and thoir wiYes and chil.
dren. Yes, II ls under such an ar.
rangement that the workers would
have to submit TO tyranny" despot.
ism and conditions of industrial bond.
age approaching the plight OF the col.
ored man before the Civil War
| ! understand that the open shop
syndicate has set up headquarters In
the Twin Cities, and that they will
seek To sprinkle their newly com,
pounded industrial tonic In Champaign
and Urbana. Nevertheless. with their
commendable trade union movement.
their own cooperative store, and
With their splendid labor paper, the
wage carners are quite we'll fortified,
and the future OF the open shoppers
Is rather dark in the Twin Cities The
workers should appreciate the great
value OF their paper, and each mem.
ber should make himself booster
and seek TO get the paper In the
hands of every worker possible, union
and non-union alike II Is IN this way
that we can best get our side OF the
question before the public generally.
Volumes could be written In sup.
port OF tho contention that the work.
ers should support and paironlze their
own cooperative stores In cities
wherein tDey nave bten ththbllRneu.
We must buy everything possible
from our own stores. and thereby our
money spent viii work for rather than
against us The bona fide coopera.
tive movement Is one of tho greatest
bulwurks OF the workers, and they are
fast ayailing themselves OF its posi-
bilities against the onslaught of the
so-called open shop forces.
Employers who are lost to all OF
the better feelings of humanity, and
dominated by brutal and barbarious
greed. will fall TO see the wisdom OF
paying living wages 10 the workers
by appropriating the huge sums now
spent for open shop Advertising.
Nevertheless right and justice is on
the side of organized labor, and there.
fore It's victory Is certain.
We viii use our brains and by every
honorable means to resist any at.
tempt TO deprive us OF the few decent
! things OF life that our unions have
fought so hard TO build up and main.
tain. .