Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-15
OBJECT is
TO DESTROY
UNION LABOR
sooen" Shop Movement
Based on Greed Through
Control of Workers
fPy The Federated Press)

mo time and which is being H.
tH, and managed in the same way
Is f.rfv.four states by associations in
"a a. mes is a carefully planned and
i..oiy calculated scheme TO destroy
-, labor unions of America. That
-, i proyen as Conelusiyely and con-
..'iocinrly as ever any fact was estab-
mod by the written. published and
ten words of manufacturers and
srp,nloyers of labor, which have been
s,iioeied and will be published this
~ nv the Bureau of Industrial Re
'aareb 2S9 Fourth Avenue, New
York City.
The report. written by Sayel Zim-
"a nf the bureau. makes an end of
.ho bypocritical pretense of the great
snnloying interests that the open
shnnp drive is something without
.a,har or mother. Mr.. Zimand takes
his facts from the statements of these
arganizations, from speeches. from
aows implicitly with which employers
assoeiations have been flooding news.
n,ner offices. from private letters
rom strikebreaking detective" agen-
clos and sets forth his conclusions
rom these. He shows close mimi
isrity of the methods in use in re-
mole southwestern towns and in Sc
attle and New York and all the other
cities in which organized labor is be-
ing attacked
The open shop" campaign, Mr.. III
mand shows, is. in fact, a campaign
for shop closed against union men.
the purpose of which is to wipe out
the wage and hour standard and other
gains achieved by labor in a hundred
wears of struggle. He points out how
the drive. carried on all over the
country by open shop" associations,
chambers of commerce, bankers and
manufacturers associations, has as
sumed all the aspects of a holy war"
All the war phrases about democracy
and all the catchwords about Ameri-
canism, freedom and human rights
have been harnessed by the publicity
agents of the campaign, .and these
have been refurnished, given such
twists as to make them serviceable
to the anti-union purpose, and distrib
nted by the ton to employers, patri-
otto women, farmers and even to work
men.
The labor policy of the open shop"
examinations, the report shows, is
summarized in the following methods:
!. Propaganda asserting the "tyran-
ny Of labor organizations under union
| shop rule; waste" In the union shop
from the inefficient workers; Amer
lean" ideas of government as opposed
to the union shop.
4 IS, hos .Nf,
g. Financial aid TO employers who
are in conflict with unions.
l. Refusal of credits and raw ma
terlas to employers who refuse to
adopt anti.union tactics.
5, Bribery of trade union leaders
as a means to discredit labor organi-
cations before the people.
6. Using the blacklist against trade
union "agitators."
l. Employing under cover" men
IN factories and shops to spy on those
who are trying to organize the work
ers
g. Using under cover" men in the
unions to gain confidential informa-
lion OF the moves to be made by the
unions.
g. Organization of shop commit
tees to counter-balance the trade
union.
II. Organizing Hobbies to influence
anti.abor legislation.
H. The use of company paid pub
lie officials.
The introduction to the report
quotes the Minnesota Banker" as
follows:
The open-shop campaign, now well
under way all over the United States,
Is deemed by its proponents as the
prime means of bringing about lower
ca labor costs and with them increas-
eu production. When such a gigantic
force IN the industry of the country as
tne bethlehem Steel Company openly
announces its aid for this movement,
even to the extent of refusing to sell
us product to manufacturers not IA
soflng the open shop idea, it is at once
o.laent what vast momentum the open
shop movement is obtaining. There
no question as to the economic
value OF the open shop. But, at the
sahe time, those who are pushing it
must De careful in their methods.
=, me open shop is a powder maya
que A carelessly thrown match
might start a nationwide eonfiagra-
uoh where the radical ele-
meht Is too strongly intrenched, there
n, OF course, but one final thing to
nv NJ and that is to beat them by force.
aney must be locked out and licked
uu,il the conservatives see the light
anu realize that the rights of capital
must De considered :"
me report calls attention to the
o aaee lhat the open shop" movers de.
care the drive is a result of "spon.
sneons combination" that it Just
eaught hre here and there, and then
Spleau Ike a prairie fire. 1.-THE ap.
pSearance of national and local open
snop organizations" it continues. "in
r nShy places at once, the sudden wide
,, oy OF chambers of commerce, ro-
co. cluos, bankers and manufactur-
v s associations, is not entirely de-
'o,a OF significance"
AZ IN tnls connection the report prints
S My following letter, the original of
t Saieh Is written on the stationery of
p Que National Open Shop Association,
Antonio: io''s anu san