Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-03-02
THE GREED OF A
WOLF.

The UNION LABEL is a red rag
20 the OPEN SHOP bull. And no
woDder' The pop-eyed individual who
Smacked MS lips 50 greedlly ever war
profits and boldly claimed the right
"a all he could get on; Of the nations
extremity is net the sort 70 hesitate
In the scramble 10 exploit labor.
He'll wave the flag and cheer the
American Plan in a~Noiee trenul-
Gus with emotion and even spend his
money TO spread the patriotic Cos
pei" Of the OPEN SHOP. This fellow
forms the backbone Of the employers
associations Of the country.
Give TO every workingman the
right 20 labor where and when he
pleaSeS, and give 10 every employer
the right 10 deal with each employee
Pas an individual-that's American
freedom he declares.
Fine patriotic spirit. And the in
dividual employe would have the same
chance that Little Red Riding Hood
had 70 bargain with the wolf. An
honest working man dependent on
his labor for his daily bread pitted
against subtle, cruel and graSping
boss, 70 whom one hand, more or less,
is one white chip in the game. Fur
thermore the Open Shop boss knows
they'll all come to work before they'll
starve. That's one idea of Ameri-
can freedom--a year-round open sea-
son on the poor for the benefit Of the
rich.
II is ineoneeivable that such trans
parent propaganda should deceive in
telligent Americans, but il is not the
thing for Organized Labor and its
friends TO despise an enemy so rich,
nowerful and INSCRIPTIONS as the
Open Shop crowd. They work day and
night. They employ every medium
of deception their agents can discover.
70 meet this onslaught. which has re-
doubled in volume since he war,
every worker in America should take
solemn pledge to fly the banner of
Unionism--the UNION LABEL, sym
Dol of the Closed Shop--in every gar
ment he wears, every cigar he smokes
and all the merchandise he buys.
Consider few aims, openly stated,
of employers associations:
l. Counter organizations to trades
unions in city, state and nation.
2. The right to hire and fire and
to pay whatever wages a man can be
made to work for.
3. Spread of propaganda to show
the tyranny of unions by use of news
paper space, conventions, meetings,
literature, speakers and other media.
4. Convincing the Closed Shop en-
ployer that the union label is detri"
ment to his business,
5. Prevailing upon employers to
boycott goods bearing the union label
and to refrain from dealing with
other employers who do not also boy
colt the label.
6. Providing financial aid for
members involved in strikes, and per-
suading banks to refund interest on
loans made for fighting strikes.
Z. Breaking strikes by means OF
sluggers.
s. Seeking laws with which TO
harass organized labor and to make
available government force for use
against labor; also, laws to make un-
ion funds open to attack.
9. Organization of welfare schemes
to deprive workers of the incentive
for organizing in their own defense.
10. Employment of spies and stool.
pigeons to discover union plans and
to pry into private lives OF union
leaders. !,
II. Winning the sympathy and
friendship of courts and other gov
ornamental agencies.
IL. Opposing use of the union
label on all government publications:
IS. Gaining strength in politics by
use of money.
Ia. Ioaning of labor in cases OF
strike and fulfillment of factory or
ders with return of profit to the plant
affected by the strike. ,
Is. Control of newspaper politics
by placing or withdrawal OF adver-
Using contracts.
I6. Use of blacklists to ruin and
starve men who REBEL against shop
conditions or treatment of men.
II. Pressure by insurance and pen
sion schemes to prevent workers from
casting their lot with their fellows.
is. Use of Injunction laws ana
bringing of damage suits to. give fuil
play to propaganda power of eloquent
| legal talent.
1g. Vociferous opposition to the
living standard bisis of arriving at
wages. and employment of expert
talent to prove that the trade can
stand no higher wages
20. Giving carefully prepared IN
terviews to newspaper attacking labor
and getting interviews printed 'py
| financial pressure on editors.
81. Use of bonus and premiums 10
misIead labor into the belief that y
has an interest in the business anc
4 thus keeping wages down to permit
81. Engaging services of preach
erS iudges. writer's and professors az