Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-22
''UN-ANERICAN'
SAY BOSSESOF
CLOSED SHOP

..I. o NJ the Associated Employ
T.slsrafion of principles, which
e's .saf 10 employers IN unsealed en-
- Monday morning in an effort
'e'f he first on the ground with its
10 avs we are unalterably op-
10 - the principles of the closed
P's1 Il is un-American. Illegal and
u1s4.' - when has legislation been
- 4gaInst collective bargaining
~ have never heard OF H.
~ Is The right of collective bar
-, un.tmerican9 The only rea-
b-.'.t .bst can be advanced is that it Is
~ ..s.risan for some bosses TO grab all
An. an .'ar NJ the expense OF the rest of
Ne neaple. and that II Is un-Amerlcan
~ ANYTHING or anybody to stand In
,Ssir Eay Is il American TO tell the
ngslir hat wages must be reduced
:, arder 10 meet competition, and then
- - reducing the wages TO forget all
'lagt lowering the price of the arti-
o.. 81 manufactured? Is it American
- mise priees 500 per cent. make a
c,t of % per cent. and ask labor TO
,+ta 90 per cent cut on raise IN
wages of 70 per cent?
Tho following suppressed utterance
- n cstlre. officer. Henry c. Wal.
- secretary CT agriculture, Is, ac-
o5,dipa 10 the Associated Employers,
~. tr,s-iean. and Mr.. Wallace is a
~ foreigner. Mr.. Wallace was
s,soline before the Farmers Grain
,isrketiag Committee of Seventeen at
casragn Aoril 6, this year. and said:
The right Of the laboror to form
orzani2atlons for collective action and
collective bargaining is clearly reoog-
rtgad The right of manufacturers,
merchants and other groups to or
ganize themselves into associations
far the promotion of their mutual in
tarests is not disputed. So also the
right of farmers to form similar as
soriations. both for the promotion of
their general interests and for the sale
of their LABOR in the form of crops,
with a view of securing fair prices
for their products through greater ef-
6eieney in handling and distributing
them must be admitted without ques-
ton denial of this right would re-
suit in reducing the free farmers of
the United States to a condition COM
mrable with the downtrodden peas
ants or poems of less enlightened coun-
tries. and would bring upon us all the
griefs which those countries are bear
ing"
Mr. Wallace said this, but carefully
censored kept press reports failed ut
terly to mention it, because the kept
press along with the Associated Em-
ployers, are very careful that nothing
of this sort gets into print. because
il would put the people wise and spoil
their graft
1t will be noticed Mr.. Wallace rec
ognizes the right of the worker,
farmer, and business man alike to or
ganize for the sake of collective bar
gaining The Associated Employers
are organized for collective bargain
ing, and seeks to set wages by COM
pelling all its members TO pay fail"
wage, to be determined by the associ-
alton Yet the Association denies
the workers the right the bosses
claim as their very own and nobody
else's.
They say they are strenuously op-
posed to strikes and lockouts, boy
colts, blacklists, etc. 1t is a known
fact that more than half the strikes,
lockouts, etc, occurring during the
last year have been brought on by the
employers. Local printers are TO be
locked out on the first of May be-
cause of the fact that the Masters"
refuse to abide by their agreement to
install the 44.hour week on that date.
II labor unions are un-American be-
cause they are banded together for
their mutual protection, then all other
organizations of business and profes
sional men are un-American.
We defy any member of the Asso-
ciated Employers to point to a time
when union labor demanded more
than the means of a decent living,
based upon the costs of the period and
the prospects for the future Can they
say that much for themselves? How
90 they account for the enormous
profits Of some employers?
Labor is making an open fight.
lhere is nothing concealed as to its
membership. Ii would be interesting
10 know, however, just who the As
sociated Employers are. so that labor
can hight intelligently and without in
Jaflng Its friends. We would like to
ask the Associated Employers to make
known its membership. which hereto
iofe has been carefully concealed.
we would like also to ask the AS
sociated Employers just what they
mean by fair" wage in cold cash,
aAu now the fair wage is to be de-
lived at?