Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-08

NT TONI me FAlUttiIdI i
The National Association Of Manu-
faeturefs, which might just as well
be called, as il il know 10 be, a ma
tional organization Of malefactors, in
it, recent national convention In New
York City adopted, as a part Of the
report of committee on so-ealled
open shop, the following statement:
Wherever the public has had both
side Of the open shop question ade-
quately presented, it has decidedly de-
clared for the open shop There can
be no other Characterization Of such
a statement than it is the most bfaz-
en-. inexcusable kind of falsehoOd.
The report Of the same committee
contained the following paragraph:
in the economic field our open shop
department has presented clear eyi-
deuce on the public cost Of the closed
shop. II has, for example, shown
that rent increases are much greater
in towns where building is closed
shop; that taxes are increased by the
closed shop, since it costs 46 per cent
more to erect school buildings under
open shop conditions, and that higher
prices for commodities are largely
controlled By closed shop production
methods"
If it is possible for one mendacious
falsehood 10 surpass another in men
dacity, then the laurels unquestiona-
bly, go to the second quotation. The
statements made by the National As
ISOLATION Of Manufacturers are IN
supported and unsupportable. Any
organization that is actively and al
most exclusively engaged in propa-
ganda may be excused for the use of
adjectives, but there can be no such
excuse for outright misstatement of
facts.
If there is any difference in the cost
between union and non-union opera
| ton, it Is decisiVely in favor Of union
operation in the aggregate, and for
many reasons. If the National Assoc
citation of Manufacturers will exam
| inc the statistics compiled by the
| United States Census Bureau, it will
| discover that of the value added by
! manufacture, money paid in wages
! forms, in most cases, something less
than 30 per cent of the total. In the
| competition of modern manufacture
management methods play a much
more important part than wage diff
| ferentials in the final cost of most
commodities to the consuming public.
| The avarege efficiency of trade union
workers over unorganized workers is
| fact so we'll established as to be con
coded by all employers who have in
vestigated without bias. This was
/ clearly demonstrated when building
employers appeared before the Lock
! wood Committee and under oath testi-
fled emphatically and unequiyocally
that union labor in building construc-
ton was more efficient and economical
than non-union labor. The best man
aged industrial undertakings operate
in agreement and in harmony with the
organizations of labor. Good manage
ment and union labor are found to.
gether to much greater extent thar
good management and non-union la.
Dor. 1t may be said truthfully and
accurately that factor in the quail.
cations emitting management to be
called good management is the intel.
| ligence to understand the ACCESSIBILITY
of operating in agreement and in nu.
tuality with the organizations oil
workers.
The proposition set forth by the
National Association of Manufactur,
ers is simply impossible of successful
support. 1t is nothing less than &