Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-03-03

ing between himself and his employ
ees. In other words, it is the same
or holds the same position In industry
which the Czar held when he main
tanned as chief ruler of his country.
There was no cooperation between the
Car and the citizens in determining
what the law of Russia should be.
The Gar and the council determined
that and the people accepted IL
whether they liked II or not.
] think perhaps II might save time
and enable me tn rove TO some other
ground | desire TO occupy IL ] took
one open shop town that is well
known and describe the conditions
that exist there under the open shop.
Then you will better understand IT,
Some time ago. interested in what
was taking place in my country and
also in the state of Ohio (where re-
side), | visited well-known city
Marion, Ohio, which is known as one
of the typical open shop towns in the
state. | found there that retail deal
ers had an association; that the man
ufacturefs had an association; that
the bankers had an association and
that they were all combined together
In an Employers Association that
maintained a secretary, and it was
the the secretary's duty to keep a
card index record of every employe
in the city and this record, among
other things, contained the type of
workman he was and the wages that
he received. There was the under
standing among the members of the
association at Marion that no one
would employ the employee of an
other unless the first employer should
give his consent.
Now, there was a fear among the
employers of Marion that if the work
men were free 10 90 from one en-
ployer to another, that perhaps it
might lead to the payment of higher
wages and so they tied, under this
open shop plan, the individual work
man TO a job. While | was in the
city on one Of my visits, several girls
who had been employed as clerks,
secured work in a candy factory
where the wages were higher and
the open shop association of Marion
| compelled the employer of this candy
factory TO discharge these girls. OF
course, he couldn't force them TO go
back to the company or the counter
where they had been working but
through his power he did leave no al
tentative to these girls, If they were
going TO work for wages, but TO go
back to their previous employer. So
it is in any other community where
the open shop is firmly established,
the individual workman is tied to his
job as the serf was tied to the soil
during the mediaeval ages, and he is
also tied with the wages the employer
is willing to give him. This condi-
ton is a serious reason because il
prevents cooperation between labor
ing men or between labor and man
agement. We suffer in our indus
try because there is that lack of CO.
operation. We are called upon to
give that cooperation but II some
power foreign TO our constitution was
TO secure control Of our government
| doubt whether we would give a
peaceful kind of cooperation.
When management says 10 labor,
cooperate with u.s." but they give
US no chance of having a voice IN
the determining Of rules under
which we cooperate and under which
the cooperation VIII De carried on II
is no more than human that We
should want a right 20 speak. We
would be willing TO cooperate under
those conditions, Of course. A short
time ago some striking evidence Of
the lack of cooperation and results
we're submitted BY the Committee OF
Engineers appointed by Secretary of
Commerce Hoover. They studied the
wastes in industry. Their report was
published a few months ago. Among
other things, you will find in their
report that in the metal trade indus
try they found the management re-
sponsible for 81 per cent Of the
waste; they found labor responsible
for 8 per cent, and what they term
outside contracts responsible for 10
per cent. This is proof not only
that there was lack of cooperation,