The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-04
union SPEAKER
FLAYS ACTION
OF DAUGHERTY
M. W. Martin Calls Attorney
General Bunglesome De-
ceiver, but Capable Receiv-
er from Wall Street.
ATTACKS OPEN SHOP

Attorney General H-75ry N. Daugh- |
tery Is a bunglesome deceiver al |
though a capable receIver-from Wall |
Street, said NJ w. Martin, editor of
the Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and
Helpers journal. in his Labor Day ad- |
dress at Glen Miller park Monday aft
ernoon. His speech resounded with a
most emphatic condemnation of the
present governmental policy toward
labor generally He also flayed the
open shop movement.
Preceding the meeting held at Glen
Miller park, a parade was held down
Main street to the place of the exer-
cises. Approximately 500 persons took
part in the procession. A number OF
cars were decorated and many local
crafts represented.
Frank Irwin served as chairman OF
the session, with the Rev. H. S. James
delivering the invocation
D. S. Miller, general chairman OF
the board of adjustments for the Penn
sylvania system, member of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, was
speaker in the afternoon. The gen
eral strike situation was covered by
him in his address.
A large audience was present when
the parade, led by the Sons OF Veter-
ans Drum and Bugle corps reached
the park Several selections were CIV
en- by the corps while the crowd was
gathering.
Alfred Bavis, former president of
the board of works, declared that train
men had not abandoned their trains
in the desert of California, as publish
ed in daily papers, but had left them
in towns.
Martin Speaks.
Mr.. Martin in part said:
The cowardly open shop drive and
starvation tactics to crush organized
labor, unsurpassed in any age of our
nation, has been met and defeated
through superb heroism by the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, despite
autocratic employers driving from
their shops, mills, mines and foundries
the cream of workers, in their mad
and determined effort to adopt the
American plan, hiring a raft of float
ers, unskiIIed and Indifferent to human
society who break down the standards
of decency and good working condi-
tions.
Under this American plan, social
ed. open shop, there is no system OF
collective bargaining. No one will ven
ture TO adjust a wrong or a grievance.
Think of Judge Gary, head OF the steel
trust, with 10000 or more men to
deal with, willing to hear their COM
plants or having the privilege to bring
their grievances before them. Read
the steel strike Investigations by the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
if you want startling and shocking
testimony coming direct from work
ers. The Steel Trust open shop back
ed up this American plan.
Result of Policy
Think of the Pennsylvania road
willing to meet any of its 200,0 en-
ployes. as individual or independent
workers, who could go to President
Samuel Rea any time to present a
complaint President Rae President
Smith, of the New York Central, and
other corporation presidents ara too
busy playing golf to fool away their
valuable time on a lot of dependents.
What usually happens? 1t is this:
1t is common throughout this nation
to note men with their families -
wives, sons and daughters, WORKING in
the open shop. l dare venture the
assertion you can find this to exist
right here in your own city.
Does not this represent a deplor-
able condition industrially and econ
omically?
Collective Bargaining Needed
Again the existence of many evils
in our present industrial system
proves the need of collective bargain
ing to give labor justice There is
no remedy, either by law or Other
form to take care of labor's griev
ances. There is the company union
all company and no union, but labor
cannot turn to capital for complete
Justice. Therefore. by the very ex
istence of evils under the present
capitalist regime and by the wicked
campain drive of open shop employe;
against the workers in mills, mines
railroads, shops. in fact all forms O
industry, against the right of laboI
to organize, compels labor to yrotec
itself in the struggles, which car
come only through the combined Graf
strength and federation of collective
bargaining and organization. Ever
our best thinking American citizens
tell us that since some influence il
needed to give labor Justice, it mus
come primarily from labor Itself
through effective collective bargaining
which is impossible without constitut
ing a union shop it therefore follow;
that the union shop is a necessary an
inevitable institution in American sc
ciety, and the principle of the uniol
shop is justifable in that its applica
tion would best serve the interests O
the American people.
Defines Open Shop
so much wild propaganda ha
been scattered as to what constitute
union shop and the public often ask
What is a union shop?' without takin
the definition of labor and capital.
will quote from one of the commits
sions of the United States govern
ment, the Industrial Relation commits
sion, which states, "A union shop is
shop where the wages, the hours {
labor and the general conditions {
employment are fixed by joint agree
rent between the employer and tn
trade union
But these American plan ope
shops for independent workers de
mand the open shop as they spen
millions of dollars to try it out. 9TH