Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-01-27

The Orpheum theater was comfort
Ii fIled Sunday afternoon to hear
W;ss Agnes Nestor, of Chicago, and
D. D. Robert J. Locke, pastor of the
Congregational church, Champaign.
The meetings was opened by the
singing Of America, and following q
liver by Rev. Locke, that gentleman
80 the opening address, taking
Good viii" as his topic.
IT, church, said Mr.. Locke, can
.,.sr become anything but an in
nm .,r,,uept of good will. 1t cannot af-
for5 IN become fast institution, sup
nortinq the views of one class to the
Exclusion of the other, but the church
eSonld promote good will between the
opposing classes of people.
The boundaries OF America are not
large enough, said Mr.. Locke. to have
one class group aligned against an
otber. II was his opinion that class
sonsciepce and misunderstanding we're
Jstrimental to the interests Of both
walker and employer, and that when
al groups understood the other there
would be less strife and discomfort,
No progress worth while will be
,,ada until we clear our skirts OF
much that hangs to them in the shape
Of class conscience, he said.
The worst thing that has happened
in the past, said Mr.. Locke, is bad
Observation-Disclosures, who fail to
see and appreciate the position OF the
other side.
There should be more sympathy be-
tween the groups. They should get
tooether on some basis of understand
inc. and organized labor should not
fail 10 understand the attitude of the
unorganzed, which is sympathetic.
Miss Agnes Nestor, speaking with a
conviction engendered by many years
of experience in fighting for the cause
of union labor, in her quiet, unassum-
ing manner, presented many reasons
for the perpetuation of labor unions
and the theory of collective bargain
ing. Being glove worker by trade,
her talk was mostly concerned with
those trades connected with the sew
ing industry.
the Aopen shop" can not win per-
inanently, said Miss Nestor. II was
/. .lsslpchaxls ssiss Illinois tsga aeAx Vt
meeting of the Manufacturers AS
sociation, which chose aa appropn-
ate time for starting crusade
against the workers-when labor
faced unemployment. To popularize
the movement, coming as it did imme-
diately following the war, it was Civ
en- the name American plan" and
thus the carefully planned scheme to
disrupt the labor organizations was
put into effect. But. it cannot win,
said Miss Nestor. While "open shop
pers" may be able for a time to man
their shops with unorganiZed workers,
their methods will i'm time defeat
them. The unorganized will be forced
through the injustices forced upon
them to organize, and they will de-
mand their rights. The unions are
NOT going to disband in the face of
the "open shop" They have through
their efforts worked themselves up
out of the drudgery of long hours and
low wages, and they will NOT go
back to those conditions. Oppression
may retard the labor movement for a
while, and it may result in another
form of Observation-Disclosures fight
ing, more aggressive, and relentless,
but labor organizations will endure
Just as long as oppressive measures
are forced upon the workers.
Miss Nestor is fearful of what may
happen in the future, should the work
ers be oppressed to the point where
they will no longer endure injustice.
In the reaction that is bound to come,
she is fearful that the workers may
remember the time when they had no
work and the captains of industry
held the upper hand.