The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-02-04
J.P. MORGAN SEQ.
AND THE FIRMS
"OFFICE Boys
nv Charles NJ. kelleY.O

organized to permit of any such con
| clusion. 1t is too well financed, too
well propagandized, entirely too
brutal in it's conception and eXecu
ton, not to have a starting point
and tremendous driving force be
hind it.
1t will be profitable, therefore, t.
inquire under the surface and es'
tabish, if possible, just what inter
ests will be benefited if the drive
against the workers should be sue
! cessful, and what interests are most
active in futrhering this inhumar
and un-American program.
The chief exponent of the "oper
shop" the 12-hour day, espionage
/ invasion of fundamental rights anC
industrial penonage is the United
! States Steel Corporation. The In
telchurch World Commission has
given some interesting information
concerning the treatment it accorded
it's workers. Judge Gary, spokes.
man for the "open shop" group, is
an office boy for the banking house
of j. P. Morgan & Co.
| The Bethlehem Steel Company is
another advocate of the open shop
An investigation being conducted at
New York developed the information
that this company refuses to sell its
products to contractors who employ
union labor. 1t is spending a great
deal of money in its efforts to keep
| its workers in economic slavery. The
Bethlehem company is an instru-
mentality of Morgan & Co.
Twenty-Five railroads are giving
the workers a great deal of trouble
They lead in the assaults upon craft
organizations and are endeavoring
to force reductions of wages. These
20 railroads are Morgan roads.
Leading spokesman for the rail
road "open-shoppers" is General w
w. Atterbury, of the Pennsylvania
This corporation is dominated by the
house of Morgan and Atterbury is
| messenger boy for Wall street.
West Virginia and Alabama coal
fields have resisted with blood and
fire all attempts to organize the
miners. What amounts to a state
of civil war now exists in these
states. These fields are owned OF
controlled by the house of Morgan.
Supply and equipment concerns
that are VIGOROUSLY anti-union anC
merciless in the treatment accorded
workers are, in every instance, Nor.
gan concerns.
Industries that are financed by
Morgan, wherever located, are fight
ing workers and standing firm fol-
long hours and low wages. A Nor.
gan plant is as rule non-unior
plant, with its concomitant spy sys
tens, gunner and cowed working
| personnel.
Morgan the Evil Genius.
The ramifications of the "oper
shop" movements are co-extensiv,
with the life and industry of the ma
ton, but when any phase of it i.
trailed it shunts back to the hous,
of Morgan. At the corner of Broat
and Wall streets, New York, is be
ing distilled the poison that is being
injected into the arteries of industr!
and developing a situation that al
prudent Americans regard with Sc
rious misgiving.
1t is important that the Ameri
can people know the source and in
| spiration of this movement, and the,
should also know something about
other activities of those who would
if they could, establish feudal serf
dom in this country and destroy
every vestige of the things that have
made it great and prosperous. Thai
they have not confined their malev
olence to the workers has beer
proven recently in a manner so con.
vincing as to leave no doubt of what
must transpire unless their brutal
ity and criminality are promptly
checked
1t has been charged, and not sue
cessfully denied, that the house Of
Morgan is in conspiracy with other
financial and industrial groups tt
destroy the American merchant ma.
rine in the interest of foreign gov.
eminent. The house of Morgan is
fiscal representative of the British
sympathies as well as it's activities
| With the chambers of commerce, the
railroads and the shipping trust il
has undertaken to drive the Amer.
lean flag from the seas. 1t is pledg.
ed not to do anything that would
injure British shipping or British
trade.
Every individual and every COM
bination that is in conspiracy against
| the nation is also in conspiracy
against the workers. 1t would seem
that the open shop" movement is
part of a program to destroy this
government and it's people. No good
can accrue from the campaign to
| subjugate the toilers. The nations
prosperity is contingent upon happy
and contented industrial population
Morgan knows this, as does every
other student of economics. When
he sets out to inflame and embitter
the workers, he is not actuated by
desire to be helpful to the nation
that has sheltered him and prospered
| him.
To destroy American industrial
supremacy is in line with the at
tempt to thwart our efforts to build
up a merchant marine. 1t is not an
unreasonable assumption that the
"open shop" movement is part and
parcel of the conspiracy to promote
| British interests at the expense OF
the American people.
The Bethlehem Shipbuilding Com.
pany, which, as already stated, is
Morgan concern, is charged with
having defrauded the government OF
large sums of money in ship con-
stluction. An effort has been made
to deny the allegation that Charles
NJ Schwab, while he was serving the
government at dollar a year, haC
taken 100000 as expenses for one
month. But no attempt has beer
made to refute the charge that his
shipbuilding company took many
millions of dollars to which it hac
no lawful or iustifiable claim.