The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-04

IIUI SHCu6y, uOI6u ECONOMIST,
says, THE open shop does not accord
to union members the right of organ
ization"
Chief Justice Taft said, Tt is the
custom of employers to call the move
ment to kill unionism, an open shop
movement
Note the inconsistency among
| those who say they favor labor organ
izations and yet favor a policy which
will destroy unions. We have a fine
example of it right now by the attor-
ney general of the United States,
who, like others with whom he asso-
ciates in government control is trying
to deceive the toiling organized forces
of America into believing he is their
friend. Labor forbids to accept the
right hand of friendship with a dag
ger in the left hand, to stab it in the
back. We want the attorney general
of the United States to distinctly IN
derstand that organized labor wants
none of his friendship. He is bungle-
some deceiver. although capable
receiver-from Wall Street Even
| the rubber stamp Wall Street keeps
/ in the White House does its work
we'll 1t is a fine, obedient group of
| servants that instituted nation
wide injunction without any question
of doubt, against the railroad work
ers.
Mr. Daugherty was satisfied that
there is all the law necessary to do
all that is needed in the event of the
present crisis Sure! Mr. Daugh
erty's subsidized legislators have been
busy making laws for employers and
against employees for year, and months
ago banked up measures ready to
strange workers when the time ar
rives, as in the proposed anti-strike
clause in the villainous Cumnins bill
Catching workers in its tolls wher
other methods fail!
This open friend Of capitalism and
pretended friend of labor planned tc
invoke the legal powers of the fedora
government, keeping the government
policy up his sleeve, like all fake of
fetal friends of labor.
why should the government keel
silent on its policy toward workers IL
case of a strike? Here is the answer
using the attorney generals owl
words: 4 will use the power of the
government of the United States with
in my control to prevent the labor IN
ions of the country from destroying
the open shop
Another Objection
The attorney general goes still fur
ther in his zeal for labor by declaring
that he has no desire to obstruct an!
legitimate policies of the unions, blu
he will not let the unions break u
the open shop against the wishes o
the workers. How brave, how patri
otic-to stand for the open shop ant
falsely state that the workers want It
IF organized labor waned open shoi
, there would be no lock-outs nor strikes
, and workers would be slaves as il
, feudal times.
! Next he says, The government o
! the United States is not opposed to la
; Dor unions if they perform such func
! lions as can be performed in Lawful
, America 1t would be amusing wer
, it not SO serious, the way this mai
: carries water on both shoulders. Mari
the sieve-like argument-ample proc
: of the unsound doctrine put out by tn
attorney general when he knows, o
, should know, after all the scandalou
attacks made on him by members 0
! congress and which he has not, up t
the present time, been able to refute t
, the satisfaction Of congress, when b
talks about lawful America
Il will quote from the CongresSiona
Record, Tuesday, Aug %, 1922. pag
1928. United States Senator Cappel
: Republican, of the state of Kansas, &C
: dressing the senate on the, soldiers
compensation act, and which he strong
ly endorse-used these words:
Mr.. President, believe the wa
profiteers and the peace profiteers ow
y bonus to the World war. There
| no better guaranty against militarisI
! than to require the men who prof
! out of war to pay it.
:. Increased Millionaires.
$ "Profiteering during the war prt
; duced one American millionaire for e.
Q cry three American soldiers killed
1 France. l would like to see the go1
eminent recover the hundreds of mi
lions of dollars stolen from the trea!
ury by the crooks and grafters VIII
profiteered off the government in wa
contracts and then use that money t
pay the soldiers bonus"
'Friends-you have just heard tn
words of Republican senator, eleete
e on the same political platform of tn
present administration. Therefore,
i cannot be said L am playing politics
n Senator Capper spoke a profoun
l. truth.
Where's the attorney general, su