The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-21
OPEN Shoppers
MEETING IN new
YORK CITY over
Launch Vicious Attack
on Union Labor
BY ROBERT DUNN.
Federated Press.

Federated Press.
The National Founders Associa-
ton has closed its 31st annual con-
vention in New York City with an
other violent attack on union labor.
William H. Barr, president, told the
200 executives Of foundry corpora
lions present that the history of
is one Of broken promises,
and destruction of prop
erty."
Barr has been singing the same
song for as long as we can remem-
Der. In addition to being one of the
most vociferous figures in the cate
CORY of professional patriots
being a close associate of Fred r.
Marvin, head of the Keymen of Amer
ica movement-Barr is one of Amer
ica's bitterest strikebreakers.
Provide Scabs.
His organization, which is . we'll
disciplined group Of open-shop manu-
facturers, offers the following serv-
ices to it's members: l. providing
scabs and strikebreakers on request;
g. importing armed guards and thugs
for the purpose of breaking up picket
lines; g. helping the struck boss have
his work done in other shops; ~ pay
ing a certain amount per day per man
to the member who has a strike in
his plant; 5. securing injunctions to
prevent strikes and picketing; 6.
feeding, housing and caring for the
scabs so long as they are needed to
crush strike.
In addition Barr's association OPP
crates a blacklist and plants spies in
the factories of members. 1t cleans
out union men from the factory on
demand. The Intelligence corps" Of
the National Founders Association,
is nationally effective. It has a num-
Der of good standing" men in the
holders union and is the implacable
enemy of that organization.
Bless Mitchell Palmer. aur
Through lobbyists in Washington
and the state legislatures the associa-
ton has fought all labor and progress
sive legislation. 1t has backed anti
picketing laws and fathered state
constabulary bills and other measures
aimed at labor.
1t has attacked organizations and
men sympathetic with the labor
movement such as William B. Wilson
and Frank P. Walsh, and commended
the anti-strike activities Of A. Nit
chelf Palmer and the late Major-Gen-
eral Leonard Wood. 1t has attacked
the American Federation Of Labor
for years and linked it as equally
dangerous" with the Industrial
Workers of the World. The unions
and the Bolsheviks it has always put
in the same class.
Professional Spies.
The organization issues a journal,
The Open Shop Review, which it
sends to the homes of workers to
Combat socialistic ideas" This
monthly is packed with Red Peril ma
torial, attacks on unions and argu-
ments in favor of the individuals or
yellow-dog contract. One of the COM
tributors has been Jacob Spolansky,
and other professional spies and ex-
department of justice agents Spolan-
sky's last underground act was an
attempt to break the Passaic strike.
The National Founders Association
believes in close organizations for the
employers. All members are obliged
by contract to take the orders of the
administrative council in settling
strikes and handling labor problems.
| The motto Of the association after a
strike breaks out is mo negotiations"
and unconditional surrender" by the
workers, and the discharge of every
worker who was active in bringing
about the stoppage.
Wants Open Shop.
/ In one Of Bars circular letters
early this year, he wrote: The
unions are only playing possum.
Nothing has happened to change the
spots of unionism. the way to
keep it asleep is to reduce its power
by making the open-shop universal
in these United States"
More information about the Ma
tional Founders Association and
other similar open-shop employers
GROUPS aggressively challenging
union labor is contained in Robert
Dunn's book THE Americanization Of
Labor" This is published by the Tn~
ternational Publishers, New York,
and sold for S1.90
'Dunn's Company Unions" pub
lished by Vanguard Press, New
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