Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-21

Tie National Association OF Manu-
ssstszsrs is endeaVoring to poison
re minds Of school teachers anu lu
sehool children with open shop
aropaganda intended TO arouse hatIeu
agaiest labor organizations IN IN. 1le
s5,nds of the young. For year ms
s,,,qe4aaauda has been conducted IN the
s.jse ~ information for school class,
g reaching the most violent ana
s.ieisos heights in three pamphlets
rbase poisOned propaganda docu,
nsenfs are called "The Open or Closed
SIN 81 bv Walter Drew, counsel oil
tbe National Ereetors' Association,
4Onward March Of the closed Sh9p, j.
and aWhy the Open Shop =. Inc iass
Two pamphlets do not dlvnlge lne
names Of their authors, but they are
nTabablv tbe product of the open
ehop DEPARTMENT Of the National
Manufacturers Association.
Walter Drew, author Of the larg-
est pamphlet in this series Tor the
uoisoning of the minds OF the sehooi
teachers and their pupils, mas been
notorious for many years as one Vi
the leaders in The employers move
ment TO crush unions Of the Amerl-
can Federation OF Labor. The at
tack led by Drew was directed prin-
cipallv at the Structural Iron Work
ers' Union, although he has at dlf-
ferent times during the last twenty
wears assisted employers of other IN.
dustries to organize for open shop
battles He was hired by the employ
ers of other industries to organize Tor
"open shop" battles. He was hired
bY the employers in the waist and
dress industry of New York some
years ago TO lead the organization
of bosses in a movement intended 10
destroy the international Ladies Car
ment Workers Union. After a few
weeks Of his leadership the employ
ers discovered that he was sending
them into a battle in which they had
everything to lose. So he was shelved
and the employers abandoned their
journey toward the "open shop"
Drew and other propagandists OF
the National Association of Manutac-
turers aim in their pamphlets to show
school teachers and pupils that Pres
ident Samuel Gompers of the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor is the lead
err of a violent band of men who
threaten the government and defy its
courts. Drew hints that President
Goinpers is an anarchist.
In a subdivision of his pamphlet,
entitled Defiance of the Courts,
Drew quotes the following from a
speech made by Gompers at the time
the Buck Stove and Range Company
was trying to send him TO prison for
violation of an injunction.
81 desire to be clearly understood
that when any court undertakes with
out warrant of law by the injunction
process to deprive me of my personal
rights and my personal liberty, guar
anteed by the Constitution, | shall
have no hesitancy in asserting and
exercising those rights"
Commenting on Gompers' state
ment, Drew says:
My Gompers then asserts greater
than that of the courts
created by the Constitution in the in.
depreciation of his rights under the
Constitution. This absurdity wouls
he ridiculous II 1t were not the cloal
OF anarchy, for what else is anarch,
than a condition where each man |,
final judge of his own acts? And Mr.
Gompers is the leader, teacher ant
spokesman for 100000 workmen."
Drew continues in his efforts t.
show that the American Federation
of Labor is a lawless, violent organ
ization with a quotation from state
ment issued by the executive com.
mittee of the Federation after the
injunction was issued against the
strike Of the coal miners In the fall
of 1919. The quotation follows:
by all the facts in the case the
miners strike is justifiable. We in.
dorse it. We pledge to the miners
the full support of the American
Federation of Labor and appeal t
the workers and the citizenship o.