Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-03-03

lZatlon Tor the accomplishment OF q
general purpose or he is like a straw
in a gale. Organization is necessary
and is it right for the employer who
is organized and enjoying those
rights, to deny his employees the
same rights?
Mr.. Baer, in rebuttal:
Mr.. Frey refers to British Activi-
ties of union labor. Probably some
of you have read Charles Reads
book, Put Yourself in His Place"
One chapter says, God pity a ma
ton when a union gets hold of it
like they have in England" He re-
ferred to the resolutions passed by
the National Association of Manufac-
turers. Of course, | am not here de-
Tending the Illinois Manufacturers
Association or any other association.
| think they are NO GOOD, is what |
think of them!
Mr.. Frey spoke of Marion, Ohio.
| was born within 30 miles of Mar
ion, Ohio. | don't know it as well
as | might, because | have been away
from there about Is years. l just
wonder if the Employers Association
is really as the reports indicate 1t
there. | know that one of the larg-
est industries of its kind is located
Liberalization Steam Shovel Works
they may be union, | don't know,
but | hardly think they are.
Now, in comparison between a I'M
ion town and non-union town, let's
take a couple of towns which are
probably better known to most of
us here in Illinois. Let's take West
Frankfort and Monticello or Paxton.
| was in West Frankfort about eight
years ago. Every flunkie was organ
lied down there. That was surely a
strong union town. But l believe
you will recall that they had to send
the troops down there not long ago.
Was it because it was such a good
town that it was necessary to keep
the troops down there to keep the
people from flocking in there and
building great, monstrous city out
at West Frankfort? | don't think 4
was. Where would you rather arise
your children: in Paxton, Monticello
or West Frankfort? Where will they
get the principles of living you want
them to have? In which of these
three towns?
Now, he referred to Mr.. Hoover's
Investigations about wastes in indus
try. | haven't much use for investi7
cations. About the only thing that
was accomplished was to give en-
ployment to a lot of high salaried
men and render report that nobody
ever read or cared anything at all
about. You can get most any kind of
a report you want out of figures.
Figures don't lie, but liars figure!
Talk about the wastes in industry!
How about transportation under
union labor. Why can't you trace a
shipment; why can't you get a ship
ment through. Why is it that if
you get 1000-pound weight in a
car, it is showed back and forth for
about week so the brakeman won't
have to unload it-because they don't
want to use their backs!
If you think there is no competi.
ton in business, just try it. Mr..
Frsy's ideas would indicate to any
ons that to only get into business
would be success on account of your
organizations and associations etc.
Better get into small business and
see how it is! | will tell you what
determines business. 1t is COMPE-
Triton! Competition is what keeps
you down. You may think it is all
profit, but if it is, why don't the CO.
operative stores succeed. Now, it has
been said we should be governed by
the consent of the law. This is true.
How large a percentage of the people
in this country would come under the
class of unionists? Would it be a ma
jority of the people in this country
Would it equal half of the popula-
ton? | have no figures before me
to tell. | don't imagine there are
over two or three million men in this
country connected with organization
Is it right they should control the
other millions?
The open shop does not deny the
opportunity of going to anothe, place
to work where the compensation 10
greater.
Now Mr.. Frey's statements as to
what trade unions have done for the
free public schools of the country.
believe | win challenge that state
ment. Over in Ohio, 100 years ago,
we didn't know what union was and
we had free schools then. My great
grandfather, grandmother, and so on
down had free schooling and they
didn't know what the union was.
He also stated that the union did
not draw the line on color or nation
atty, etc. | challenge that state
ment also. You know that is wron2
l will tell you the reason the In
ter-Church Movement failed, was be-
cause they didn't give Christ His
place in the movement. There was a
band of men that got together, not
to give good and the glory of Goo,
but to give themselves profit and
prominence. The religion of Jesus
Christ had no place in it at all.
He also said something about the
medical associations. | meant to give
them a rap in my first speech but |
forgot it. This is introducing a new
argument. want to say this: that
the Champaign County Medical Az
ISOLATION and every other medical as
ISOLATION ought to be abolished. 1t is