Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-01-23

J. NJ Nollmer the national seete.
tarN Of the open shoppers, has hesu
! running want ads for non.unien men
In papers all over the country. II
a man comes 10 Chicago IN response
to one Of these ads he Is given a job
which he Is permitted TO hold until
It is needed Ter another sucker. where.
upon be Is lci out and the newer nsh
Is given chanee at H.
lmpnrtel Men Wait for Jobs
The Chicago correspondent Of Inter
national Labor New Service visited
the open shop headquarters on the
twelfth feor Of The Monadnoek Build.
ing to give the place the "onec oYere
They occupy ronms from 1902 10 1907.
inclusive. The largest roam In the
suite Is used AZ bum room. Or
hang0ul for seah printing tradesmeu
ont Of work, There was dilapldaied,
hungry, scurvyslookine crew Of about
SO hanging around lookine for a job
when the correspondent appeared
Same Of these fellows were Chicago
tals who have families here, but can't
| vet work because the bosses are R,vs
ing preference 10 men who have been
lured from other cities
The 10 local unions IN the printing
trades In this city have been making
united drive TO unlonise the indus
try for asveal weeks past and have
been meeting with considerable sue.
cess.
Forty NV Union Shops Organized
I'VE have organized 40 union label
shops since the drive has been on
said y, A. paiske president of Chit
eago Typographical Union No. ID,
land Ne have about 40 other good
prospects at the present time. II ia
because Of our activity that Vollmer
Is SO busy importing men from other
cities, and as consequences he "
helping to add TO the crime problem
! IN Chicago.
1T was only the other das that one
Of his rat printers was caught red
handed a. hold.up man. The fel.
low told the police that ho could gel
no work and had TO steal Go provide
for his wife and children.
Sirska lsvaksgs taust of Crime
international labor News Service
! Is undoubtedly correct In IT'S eonten.
ton that the importation of strike.
breakers Is largely responsible for the
present unparalleled crime situation
In Chicago continued Mr.. Patzke.
1T only stands 10 reason that II the
market Is overloaded with ineompo.
tent men something out Of the ordi.
nary Is bound to happen.
'.fhe pace for skilled men in Chi.
eapo is too fast iof these miserable
misfils, aud they soon find themselves
ON the scrap heap. Out of funds and
desperate, II is no wonder that they
turn TO criminal pursuits. There -
nothing else for them To turn 20.
Vnllmer and his associates In the Open
Shop Employing Printers ASS pciation
care nothing about this riff-taiI except
as instruments IN their Vaccinations
against the unions,
Small Strike Eseiies Nollmer
I'VE apparently gave Vollmer a bad
time Of IL the other day" said Mr.
patzke. we struck the printing
plant Of Swift a CO., the packers, and
Nbifl'f tore HiA hHlih FtAAiiN vi AhN
job to supply strikebteakers. We did
not consider the strike of great mo-
ment, but Vollmor evidently did. FOR
he had four uniformed policemen and
six detectives doing guard duty In
short order. There were only six com
positors, three prossmen and six girl
Uressfeedefs involved. The plant had
been running on n non-union basis
since the II hour strike Of 1921"
Mr.. patzke told Of AN unprinciplod
scheme Of controlling apprentices thai
the open shoppers in the printing in.
dustry here have IN operation. The
are compelled to serve SIX
years and S2 Is withheld from their
wages each week, Mr. paizke said. II
the boy quits bis job OF the trade be
fore the expiration Of the six year
period. he loses the toal sum taken
from his wages. Officers Of Typo
graphical Union No. rs are consider !