Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1922-03-25
COUNTY SCHOOL
DEBATE WILL Be
HELD WEDNESDAY
Berlin High School Team Will Meet
Pocomoke Team In The En-
pire Theatre.

The interest of both pupils and pa,
irons Of the High School is centering
on the next big academic event of the
year-the second annual inter-school
debate, which will be held in the En-
pire Theatre, next Wednesday even
ing March 29th.
This is project instituted last year
by the High School Public Discussion
League of Maryland of the University
Of Maryland, providing for county
iilter-school debates in the various
High Schools of the State.
1t is the aim of the sponsors of this
project to choose a subject for discus
sion that is of vital and present day
interest and it is believed that su. !
a subject has been selected in the
question for this year; i. e., Resolved
That the Closed Shop Would Benefit
the Nations as Whole. The world
today is in a state of unrest and tur-
MOL. The World War was a great
disrupter shaking civilization to its
foundations. The monster reached it's
fingers into every phase of life and
there left it's imprint After the
close of the great conflict we have the
problems of war itself. Not the least
important of these pcrplexities is hh
economic problem the readjustment
Of industry. 1t does not need to be
said that things are not as they
should be in the business world. Ore
Of the greatest obstacles to readjust
ment of industry is the unrest and
discomfort of labor. There has al
ways been disagreement between en-
ployer and employee and this discord
has been aggravated by the war and
the disruption of society which 1ol-
lows upon conflict of such magni-
tude. But real reconstruction will
never come until there is peace arc
harmony in the industrial world and
this will never be accomplished until
there is cooperation between the two
factors of industry-labor and CAPT
tai. For the future of American in
dustry depends upon the harmony OF
these two great forces. And upon the
future of American industry depends
t. a very great extent the future of
America. For industry supplies the
necessities Of life and without the ne
cessities of life we die.
The question for debate: Resolved
That the Closed Shop Would Benefit
the Nation as a Whole, is concerned
with the problem mentioned. 1t is
concerned with the demand of organ
lied labor for what is known as the
closed shop and with the demand of
organized capital for the open shop.
/; is concerned with the claims of or
ganized labor on one hand and organ
lied capital on the other with respect
to the effect of the policies they advo-
cate respectively upon the country as
u whole. Theclosed shop is an estab-
lishment in which only union members
are employed in those occupations al
which unions exist. The opposite to
the closed shop, the open shop, is an
establishment in which membership
or nonmembership in union is not
considered either in the employment
Oh the discharge of workers. Tile
labor unions claim (D that through
their organizations Labor has been
freed from industrial slavery, ana
given a place of dignity in the indus
trial and social world; (2) that their
unions will be destroyed if union men
are required to work side by side
with non-union men and in compet;-
ton with them; and (3) that the de
struction of Labor organizations VIII
cause Labor to fall back into its for
mer position of slavery. The employ
ers claim (1) that Labor Unions have
no right to dictate to whom they shall
employ. ~ that the Labor Unions
are unfair and unreasonable and are
simply trying to coerce the employers
into giving them shorter hours and
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