Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-21
THE "OPEN SHOP" IN
The CLASS ROOM
gy EDWARD b. DAWSON.

our country TO give like Endorsement
to the men engaged in this moment
Gus struggle"
Commenting on President Comp
ers' call to the miners to fight the
Anderson injunction of 1919, Drew
says:
"Organized labor, in its applica-
ton of the dictrine of force, has thus
arrived at the point where it was
willing to use its strength and re-
sources in defiance of the order of a
federal court issued upon the suit of
the government itself, acting in the
interests of the life and industry of
the nation"
| In the other two pamphlets, "On-
ward March of the Open Shop" and
why the Open Shop" an attempt
| is made to lure the teachers and
school children to support the anti
labor movement of the manufactur-
ers association with a picture of the
Community benefits of the open
shop" Ignoring the fact that the
workers are the Community" and
| the public" that the bosses so often
plead for, one of these pamphlets
says:
1.-THE community will not only ben
eft from the open shop because the
employers benefit, but will also profit
in other ways"
The author of the pamphlet does
not explain how a community can
benefit from reductions in wages and
| increases in the hours of work, which
always accompany the introduction
of the "open shop Neither do the
authors explain how the community
will benefit from an increase in the
number unemployed through in
creased production from already over
worked toilers. Though the pamph-
lets would make the teachers and
school children believe the employers
wished to benefit the workers, an
analysis of the sopen shop" litera-
ture indicates the scheme is to bring
the wages of skilled men and women
down to the level of unskliled work.
ers.
If all the teachers and school chill
dren of the nation were to believe
the open shop propaganda of the
National Association of Manufactur-
ers there would be a dangerous mem
ace to the American Federation of
Labor. The thousands of students
uflu IOICkt WIN dIt FOtuA
| teering for scabbery in the coal min
ion propaganda has reached many.
The employers even have the brazen-
ness to make their "open shop" fight
the patriotic" call to teachers and
pupils, with all the capitalization re-
tained
1.-THE open shop best represents
the truly American principles of
Equality of Opportunity, Liberty of
Contract, and Individual Freedom.
These should be restricted only by
the courts in their decisions and by
duly-enacted law never by outside,
governmental agencies. Tbs
open shop Ii the essence of the
American Revolution which gave
birth to our nation, for it is fight
against the control of our economic
life by men who wish to plan q tax on
those who have not authorized them
to do so.
II That is an invitation to teachers
and school pupils to scab with clear
conscience in strike times.
Backed with war chest of many
millions of dollars, the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers has be-
gun its fight to destroy all the unions
In the United States. The "open
shop" movement has reached every
industry, and every labor organiza-
ton is compelled to meet this attack.
The gigantic army of the unemployed
is allied with the employers in the
great struggle. With the minds of
teachers and public school pupils
poisoned by the employers propagan-
da, the organized workers face an on
slaught which demands every energy
in their defense.