Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-02-18

hundred. Valuable time IL lost by
instruction OF new labOrers.
Every union has 4dmission re-
quirements among which is the fact
that only competent men are ad-
mitted. Third, it increases the ef-
ficiency Of the labor. The open shop
makes man insecure of his job and
i. fearing the loss Of his job cannot
give highest efficiency.
The closed shop by furthering
novelty of labor furthers the ef-
ficiency.
The second speaker for negative
was Henry Paul.
will show that organized labor al
ready has = Efficient power. In 1916
the National Railroad Brotherhoods
demanded higher wages or they
would strike in certain length of
time. The Adamson Act was passed
by the U. S. Government and the
crisis averted.
The Boston Police Strike is still
fresh in your minds when the union
attempted to set the union above the
law. AS final plea against the tyr
amy of the labor union the public
sent Calvin Coolidge to the. White
House. There is law called the law
Of diminishing returns. Labor unions
have shortened hours, done away
with child labor, but when the labor
union gets to a point where they die
tate the amount Of output and as a
climax demands the closed shop it
is going too far. Those powers that
they possess they have abused out
rageously.
The negative stands for no monop-
ly.
George Wolstenholme was the final
speaker for the affirmative.
During the war we fed Europe, and
they cannot prove the closed shop
until they prove that the output is
below the consumption. 1t is indus
trial democracy that the closed shop
seeks. In seeking to establish this
democracy the employer naturally
objects. The function of the closed
shop is not to control the employe
but to benefit the employer. Unless
organization is adhered to old condi-
tions will be maintained and no pro-
gress made.
The working man today is a mem
Der of group. who receives the same
wages and has same conditions. The
employees must bargain collectively.
In law are there not fixed fees? Are
not lawyers sometimes disbarred? ?
Has not the working man a right to
receive the same conditions as the
professional man? The closed shop is
! benecial to the American people be-
cause it betterS the class of labor. It
creates a situation where capital ami
labor are equally strong and can Sar-
sain on equal terms. 1t lessons the
| dangers of the strike.
Otis Noyes was the last speaker on
| the negative.
| England was working under the
| closed shop and Lloyd George had to
go down and plead during the war
| for the open shop in order that TIE
| people might live. The closed shop
makes for social disorder. One fun
damental fact concerning closed
shops. Force and coersion are nee
/ essary for it's establishments.
~ 'HS Iiiiie VI TIE Dan francisco
! earthquake the closed shop men re-
fused to admit skilled workmen to
| the city when there was great
amount of work to be done. These
union men then raised the wages
| three times.
| An employer may be ruined by a
sympathetic strike when the men
have absolutely no grievances. Even
the unions fight among themselves as
to who will have control.
The closed shop has failed to solve
England's labor problem.
! The principle of the closed shop is
to make work last and rests on nc
sound economic basis and can not
last.