The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-05-20
NATION NEEDS UNION SHOP.

NATION NEEDS UNION SHOP.
E. J. McCone, the notorios Buff
falo publisher, and leading advocate
of non-unionish in the printing in
dustry; has been generally discred-
tied by that portion of the Ameri-
can public to which both union la
Dor and anti-unionists usually ap-
peal for sympathy and support. Nc
Cone is convicted falsifier. He is
so bitter and vicious in his opposi-
ton to union labor that he stops
at nothing to build up his case
against it. He. verify stoops to the
sewer. He has told untruths about
union men and unions. Fellow pub
fishers have repudiated his false
statements, and he still persists in
repeating them with full knowledge
that they are not true.
Mr.. McCone delivered a speech on
1.-THE Closed Shop Press" at con-
vention of Illinois manufacturers
in October 1920. That speech has
been printed in pamphlet form and
is being used as an "open Shop
textbook by anti-union organiza-
tons of employers. The Duluth Citi-
zens' Alliance is circulating it this
week. It's president, Mr.. l.. C. Har-
ris, calls special attention to the
speech in his bulletin of May IS.
The local anti-unionists have des-
cended to the level of McCone to
spread the lie he has uttered
against the International Typogra-
phical union.
What is that lie? 1t may be found
on page seven of the pamphlet
above referred to. 1t reads, "a*"any
printer receiving a piece of copy,
particularly editorial matter, deal
ing with industrial matters, submits
it to his chapel chairman for ap-
prevail. If that gentleman decides
that it is inimical to the interests
of organized labor he issues an or
der that it shall not go into type"
Hundreds of American newspa-
pers having Union shop composing
rooms have denied that statement.
Follow copy" is the unwritten rule
of the chapel. McCone lied about
the Typographical union, and Mr..
Harris Of Duluth is giving circula-
ton to that lie. The publishers of
the Duluth Herald and the Duluth
News Tribune know that McCone
lied, and Mr.. Harris who was in
recent conference with at least one
OF them was in a position to ascer-
tain the truth, which he did not do.
He did not want the truth. He is
not looking for good things to say
about union labor. He wants the
worst and it he can not find it he
is ready to use the reckless state
ment of any irresponsible person.
whose prejudice has led him into
the realm of mendacious invention.
The Duluth Citizens Alliance has
adopted the creed of McCone's as
its own. 1t is set off on the fly leaf
OF the pamphlet containing his Wit
rolic attack on the Union shop.
Here it is: ANY employer signing
CLOSED Shop agreement should
be ostracized as unfit to enjoy the
privileges of the democracy he i'm
perils." Isn't that cruel slogan.
It contains so little of brotherhood
and fellowship. 1t fails to say any,
thing about the autocracy in indus
try their so-called "open shop"
would perpetuate. It would lead
the reader to believe that the Union
shop, which they call the "closed
shop" establishes an autocracy in
industry, an autocracy out of keep
ing with democratic institutions.
He is indeed. superficial stu
dent of industrial problems, who
can not see into the hypocrisy of
the enemies of union labor by the
manner in which they have twisted
the meaning and the application of
the Union shop to industry. The
ants would have the public forget
their autocratic conduct of industry
by which they make all the, rules
and all the regulations, fix wages
and determine hours of labor, with