The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-08
WORKERS PARTY
TO War ON open
SHOP IN Ohio
To Call Unionists Into
Conference
BY ALFRED wAoENKNEcHr.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, March g.
There are fifteen million automobiles
and trucks in use in the United States.
Horses are already extremely old
fashioned. And iackasses would at
tract as much attention as q string Of
Barnum's elephants upon any city
thoroughfare.
The Ohio legislature at Columbus,
is, however, still living in jackass
days. The Ohio senate passed bill
yesterday repeating law making is
a misdemeanor to drive jackass past
a cemetery at greater speed than
six miles an hour. The bill was intro
duced by Senator Geo. Bender Of
Cleveland, and secured vote Of "a to
2 amid much horseplay. If at any time
within the next few years any worker
gets yearning to see a genuine jack
ass, or a flock Of them in action, let
him hike to Columbus.
But the "jackass" bill is a red her
ring. While the legislators are bray
| ing to detract attention, they are put
ting over pile Of dirt on the workers
by devious Darkroom methods. The
best representatives union labor has
in Ohio, the most forceful lobbyists,
had to speed to Columbus this week
10 help void the yellow dog" con-
! ract. What is the yellow dog" con-
tract? 1t is contract forced upon
workers by the bosses by which the
workers are compelled to agree not
to belong to union as a condition
for getting a job-as a condition for
| living!
Manufacturers Lobby.
Major Long and Malcolm Jennings
are steering the ship of state for the
Ohio Manufacturers association at
| Columbus. The Ohio Manufacturers
association has another name, which
is, the American Plan association.
The American Plan association loves
the yellow dog" contract and the
open shop. These are the gentry who
also o. K. the strike breaking state
military police bill.
Union Leaders Are "cood."
It seems as il union labor is at
tempting to prove itself good" at
Columbus. Major Long of the manu-,
facturers' association fred this at
Max Hayes and other labor union lob
byists: "You would not protest IL en-
ployers refused to hire |. w. W. and
Communists and say that there are
some organizations masQuerading as
trade unions that are just as bad"
Major Long knows that workers are
workers and that the capitalists will
have to keep an eye upon all OF them
if capitalism is going to have fair
shedding.
Shall Labor Beg and Losef
On the other hand, the labor union
lobbyists at Columbus seem to believe
that they can pick sweet grapes for
workers in the enemy's vineyard They
have not yet learned that all of labor,
the Communists, the l. w. W., the
trade unions, all workers organiza-
lions must enter into a mighty united
front and fight the offensive Of CAPT
tai every inch of the way If labor is
to be victorious.
Shall labor fight and win, or shall
labor beg and lose? Will the yellow
dog" contract live and deceminate
the ranks of organized labor? VIII
labor learn that Columbus is an en-
envy camp, that it is the seat Of the
bosses boot-lickers? These are the
questions which trade unionis in Ohio
will have to face and answer. The
Workers Party intends to call the
trade unions into conference so that
the solution will result in a militant
uncompromising struggle against all