The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-09-02
ANSWER TO OPEN
SHOP EMPLOYERS
Where Organization of La.
Dor is Strongest There
is the Least Danger
of Revolt


business interests of the nation which
are trying to take advantage of war
conditions to establish the open shop
in industry may be found in the report
of the commission on industrial rela-
tions, which says:
Instead of an elaborate machinery
for the prevention of strikes or lock-
outs we are convinced, from the testi-
mony gathered by the commission
that the most effectual course that can
be pursued to bring about a general
contentment among our people, based
upon humane standard of living, is
the promotion of labor organizations
The most casual investigator will soon
discover that in those lines of indus
try where organizations of labor is the
strongest, there is the least danger of
industrial revolt that would endanger
the fundamental principles of our gov
ernment and the maintenance of a
nation with respect for law and order
Where organization is lacking, danger
Gus discomfort is found on every
hand; low wages and long hours pre-
vail; exploitation in every direction is
practiced; the people become sullen
have no regard for law or govern
ment and are, in reality, latent vol
cano, as dangerous to society as are
the VOLCANOES of nature to the land
scape surrounding them.
We, therefore, urge as the great
remedy for such unnecessary indus
trial unrest as we have found, more,
and more, and still more organization
of labor and of the employers in each
industry as we'll The education of
the trade unions has been conducive to
a higher and better citizenship In re-
cent years there have come to our as
sistance scores and hundreds and
thousands of people outside the range
of unionists-ministers, professors
journalists, professional men of all
kinds-who have reached the conclu-
sion that is herewith stated, that the
most efficient cure for such industrial
unrest as should be cured, is union
organization.
We hold that efforts to stay the or
ganization of labor or to restrict the
right Of employees to organize should
not be tolerated, but that the opposite
policy should prevail and the organi-
zation of the trade unions and of the
employers organizations should be
promoted, not, however, for the sole
purpose of fighting each other, but
for the commendable purpose of col
lective bargaining and the establish.
ing of industrial good will. Organi.
cations of employers that have no OBJ
ject in view except to prevent labor
having a voice in fixing the conditions
of industry under which it is employ
ed, have no excuse for existence, as
they are bar to social tranquility
and detriment to the economic pro
gress of our country. The evidence
before the commission shows that or
ganized labor has no desire, nor has il
attempted, to control the business of
the employer. 1t insists that it has a
right to voice, and a potent voice
in determining the conditions under
which it shall work This attitude, we
are sure, will be continued in spite OF
the opposition of organizations. This
country is no longer a field Of slavery
and where men and women are com
PEELED, in order that they may live
to work under conditions in determin-
ing which they have no voice, they
are not far removed from a condition
existing under feudalism or slavery
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