The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-06-13
Gary Applies
 Lash To Gompers
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union labor workmen, increasing the
 force or reducing the force in any
 department, by promotions or other
 wise, preference shall be given to
 the workman who has been longest
 in the employment without reference
 to merit or capabihty; that all shop
 arrangements between employees or
 committees of employees and their
 employer shall be abolished and ali
 matters between employer and en-
 ploye turned over to the labor union
 leaders; and that there shall be no
 opportunity for physical examination
 of applicants for employment in order
 to determine whether not the ap-
 plicant is afflicted with disease con-
 taSious or otherwise, which might en-
 danger the health or life of other eTn-
 pIoyes- In opposition to the purposes
 of these demands, employers general
 ", and also unOrSanized Ia Dor, com
 prising from S5 per cent to 90 per
 cent of the total employees, stand for
 equal opportunity, reward upon the
 merits embracing promotion or
 qualification, energy, honesty and
 character, and protection to the
 health of co-employes.
 The Closed Shop Is Anti-FreedoIn.
 Enthusiastically, the individual can
 realize the full advantage of the op-
 portunities which this country offers
 only through the principles of the
 open shop as distinguished from the
 p? ??? and arbitrary control of
 the union labor leaders. The open
 shop means freedom to the employe to engage in any line of employme eTlt, at any place and time, upon terms and conditions voluntarily, agreed
 upon between the empIoye and em-
 plOyer. The closed shop means that
 one desiring employment can secure
 a place only on terms approved by
 the union labor leader leaders having jurisdiction. over the particu- lar closed shop The closed shop con tracts directly with the labor leader, by virtue of which conditions of em- pIoyment and operations are fixed. 1 As a rule, if not universally, and in variably in practice, no one is per mitted to engage or remain in em- ployment in the closed shop unless he is a member of a labor union and carries the union card The emplOye is restricted in quantities of prOduc- ton, particular kind and character of work, in prom otion, regardless of just deserts, and in many other respects detrimental to his freedom and inde- pendence. The arrangement compels everyone desiring employment in the closed shop to join the union, pay his initiation fee and the assessments 1 made by the leaders from time to time, all of which are considerable | and usually very burdensome. Union l labor leaders generally publicly refuse | to acknowledge some of the impor- l tant facts concerning unionism, and | they make various claims against the l open shop which are not based on | facts. Lack of time does not permit | further reference to this question | now.
 s'Tn case of doubt the truth should | always be aScertained by careful in-I uuiry of employers and of non-union employees. The safe rule for any man engaged in any line of employment is to remain free and independent, re serving for himself every advantage that is vouchsafed by our Constitu- ton and laws. The great majority of the people of this country stand for | the open sea, open ports of all coun- tries, open covenants with other na- tions open discussion of all proper questions and the open shop, and with this freedom and justice to all-''
 Capital the Fountain of Progress.
 In his defense of ca pital, JudSe Gary spoke at length of the United States as the most fertile of all fer tile fields of opportunity. He painted America a veritable millennium of op- portunity. a bounteous haven of hope. for those at least who are capa- h1e of hoping To engender hope and ambition and give incentive to high | purpose, capital, he declared. was not only merely desirable. but positively and absolute necessary. There are many reasons. he argued why the ac- cI,mulation of capital should be en- couraged by an individual, a corporH-t ton of State has always been and will continue to be considered honora- bIe and desirable In this connection he said:
 First of all. it is probably the greatest incentive O mental ana physical activity, to enterprise and application, to development and dis coVery. Funda mental to all progress toward the realization of ambition for success in any department of human endeavor are the necessities of life food. raiment and shelter. Unless these are provided it is useless to moralize or philosophize. Everyone desires protection against physical want and suffering. In this respect humans are not different from the squirrel. the ant or the bee. except we do or should look further ahead. And we kaow what can be done with accumulated capital
 Therefore. all mankind is endeav- ortnE to secure apital. some for to- day and this week or month, others for the future comforts of himself and family and many for worthy ob- 7ects with which there may be no close or direct relation.
 Tt is because we all understand inc proper uses and demands for cap itaI that we strive to obtain and ac- cum Jlate it. To secure il we must ex- erU ourselves, our bra:4l. muscle ard strength. we must study. think and experiment. We must be patient Tnd persistent in order to maintain our rishtful position in the com petitive contest for a share in all that Oppor- WAS to be forcibiH- distributed among those who earn nothing. including the l interruptions and slothful. ambition would slacken and energy weaken. Nc young man present on this oc ca- son is just to himself unless he knows ' Ha can accumulate more or less ( veaIth, and he will not be fair to the community. if he does ot, So far as honesty and propriety permit. add to his capital for such uses as may be women as we'll h