The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-09
DEMAND THE LABEL
 ON EVERYTHING
0nternational Typographical Union
 Service.)

The Union Label is a red rag to the Open Shop bull And no won der! The pop-eyed individual who smacked his lips so greedily over war profits and boldly claimed the right to all he could get out of the na- tion's extremity is not the sort to hesitate in the scramble to exploit labor. He'll wave the flag and cheer the American Plan'' in a voice tremulous with emotion and even spend his l money to spread the "patriotic gos pei" of the Open Shop This fellow forms the backbone ot the employers associations of the country, ] Give to every workingman the right to labor where and when he 1 pleases, and give to every employer the right to deal with each employe freedom" he declares.
 Fine patriotic spirit! And the in l dividual employe would have the same chance that Little Red Riding
 Hood had to bargain with the wolf. An honest working man dependent on his labor for his daily bread pitted against a subtle, cruel and grasping boss, to whom one hand, more or
 jess, is one white chip in the game.
 Furthermore the Open Shop boss
 knows they'll all come to work be-
 fore they'll starve. That's one idea of American freedom-a year-round open season on the poor for the bene- fit of the rich.
 It is inconceivable that such trans parent propaganda should deceive in telligent Americans, but it is not the thing for Organized Labor and it's friends to despise an enemy so rich, l powerful and interruptions as the and night. They employ every med ium of deception their agents can ! discover To meet this onslaught, which has redoubled in volume since the war, every worker in America should take a solemn pledge to fly the banner of Unionism-the UNION | LABEL, symbol of the Closed Shop in every garment he wears, every cigar he smokes and all the merchant disc he buys.
 Consider few aims, openly stated, of employers associations: l I. Counter organizations to trades unions in city, state and nation. ?. The right to hire and fire and l to pay whatever wages a man can be made to work for. B. Spread of propaganda to show l the tyranny of unions by use of news paper space, conventions, meetings, l literature, speakers and other media. 4 Convincing the Closed Shop em- ployer that the union label is detri ment to his business. l 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. -. l G. Providing financial aid for mem bcrs involved in strikes, and persuad- ing banks to refund interest on loans made for fighting strikes.
 7. Breaking strikes by means of sluggers.
 8. Seeking laws with which to harass organized labor and to make available government for for use against labor; also, laws to make union funds open to attack. l g. Organization of welfare schemes to deprive workers of the incentive 1 for organizing in their own defense.
 Io Employment of spies and stool pigeons to discover union plans and to pry into private lives of union l leaders.
 II. Winning the sympathy and friendship of courts and other gov ernmental agencies.
 I2 Opposing use of the union label on all government publications.
 B. Gaining strength in politics by use of money. 14. Loaning of labor in cases of strike and fulfllment of factory or ders with return of profit to the plant affected by the strike,
 15. Control of newspaper policies l by placing Or withdrawal of advertis- 1 ing contracts.
 16 Use of black1ists to ruin and