Arizona republican., 1921-08-31
LABOR LEADERS
 DECLARE OPEN SHOP CAMP PA|CN HELPING UNION
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 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 29- The open shop campaign and the aggressive hostility of unfair em- ployers" has strengthened rather than weakened the solidarity of the organized labor movement, it was de- clared in a statement tonight by the executive council of American Fed eration of Labor The council based its decision, the statement said, on reports submitted by affiliated na- tional and international unions and other information contained through out the country.
 An analysis of the reports, the statement said, showed a reduction in the payment of dues by the fed erations membership was due prin- cipally to unemployment. Secretary Frank Morrison denied published re- ports today that the federation had suffered a slump of 750,000 members during the industrial crisis. He re- ferred to figures announced at the Denver convention which showed a decrease of 172,212 members the past year but declined to give figures on the present membership.
 To Launch Membership Drive Calling on all affiliated unions to join in a great organizing campaign, statement by the council said: .The executive council is keenly alive to the tremendous forces that are at work to destroy trade union- | ism. It is appreciatiye of the depres- sive industrial situation and impress ed strongly with the desire and need of organizing the unorganized in a solid trade union phlanax for mutual l protection and for the advancement | of the wage earner's common interests | 1t has determined to inaugurate a l comprehensive and extensive organ l izing campaign.
 "The workers are also called on to I observe Labor day in fitting way and to manifest in an unmistakable
 manner that the cause of labor is | more alive today than in the his | tory of the trade union movement. l The statement declared that the council welcomed the changing atti- | tude of the church and women's or
 ganizations toward the trade union movement es evidence that while l plutocracy may attempt exclusively I to control the material things of life | the money and credit of the nation, it
 does not and cannot control the hear 1 and soul of America
 To Carry Out instructions l The executive council also went
 on record as binding themselves to the instructions of the Denver con- vention to support the Irish people
 'in their struggle for the recognition I of their Irish republic
 Besides calling on President Hard ing and his cabinet to take steps to bring about recognition of the repub- | lie nf Ireland and urging the govern ment "to protest to Great Britain I against brutal and uncivilized war | fare in Ireland" the council was in | structed by the Denver convention
 to send a special communication tt
 Premier Lloyd George. his cabine' l and members of parliament. giving 1 the views of American labor and pro | testing against the campaign of yio- I dence and destruction in Ireland" I All local unions are also instruct | ed to write to the president and vic, I president, members of the cabinet ant members of congress urging immedi- l ate recognition of the Irish republic
 The British trades unions and tn,
 trades unions in all of the Britisl
 colonies and dominions will also b.
 asked to support the Irish republic.