The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-03-17
BIG BUSINESS TURNS ITS GUNS ON WOMEN
" w. c. A. Financial CampsIsn Pittsburgh Boycotted
and Defeated by Employers Associ.tion-Threat of
Reprisas Made at Cleveland Convention Year Auo


repudated its social service platform would be boy
cotted financial campaign to raise 100000 has failed
at Pittsburgh result of the opposition of the EN-
poyers' Association it charged by church authorities
At its convention at Cleveland, April last year,
notice served on the Y W. c. A that its program
distastefu large business interests be
abandoned. The demand rejected after stormy
sion and Mrs Helen Gould Sheppard, owner of railroad
steel, mine and other stocks resigned president
But "Big Business" has forgotten has it for
given this open defiance exactly what said
when informed the of the Y W. c. A. that if
they failed realize the critical situation and passed
resolutions in accordance with the outline forth
its treatise What is Christian Order in Industry? it is
unlikely that future financial drives will receive
siderable aid from of business for such proposition
would be unfeasibe and utterly in opposition to good
business tactics"
following letter sent to employers and their
thizers the stationery of the Employers Association
of Pittsburgh:
of the campaign for funds which will be be-
gun today by the Young Womens Christian Association
it is felt that your attention should be the fact
that without adequate investigation the above association
has adopted industrial program" which is quite in
line with of the radical and iladvised efforts of
religious and quasiregious bodies to regulate indus
try' something they attempt to do in about the same
manner that a bull regulates china shop
Some of the things the Young Womens Christian As
sociaton believes in and endorses follows Indus
trial democracy collective bargaining; share in shop
control and management by the workers; abors desire
for equitable share in the profits and of
industry; protection of workers from enforced uenem
ployment; minimum government labor exchanges
employment oices); experiments cooperative
ership.
The Y W. c. A. has done and is doing good work
along lines and it greatly to be regretted that
they should have taken this excursion field about
which they know practically nothing and thus lend
couragement to what every conversant with indus
trial problems knows to be destructive of the very basis
of Americas progress and civilization
After the misuse of funds by the recent Inflated In
terchurch World Movement have felt it to be duty
to advise you of of the purposes to which your
money will be put if you contribute to the Y W. c. A.
if that organization aheres its present industrial
program" the formation of which venture to
responsible with knowledge of industrial
matters consulted
"The distressing failure of the campaign" the
Christian Advocate leading publication of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, "is attributed by many the
effect of this letter. which diligently circulated
among local business just this
starting"
The creed of the Y W. C. A., the Christian Advocate
protests, fair expression of the Christian position
industrial problems repeatedly stated by
tatve bodies believes the action of the Employers
Association should make friends for the Y w c. A. "and
will in the long run
be extended other religious organizations whose lead
is being followed by the w. A. for it says, the
ployers "can hardly be unchivalrous wage
only upon women 1t believes however, that unless
there great many employers Pittsburgh who dis
sent from such drastic action the outlook for industrial
and in that center is gloomy indeed