The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-10
FEUDAL SYSTEM
IS IMPOSED ON
FLORIDA WORKERS
Bosses Chest for War
on Unionism
(By a Worker Correspondent

bY W Orker correspondent
The combined forces of capitalism
in Florida are at present striving tc
establish a more CALLING mode of in.
,ustrial feudalism in the state thar
has yet existed here, altho the pres
emit conditions of labor are almost in
describably bad.
But, taking advantage of the con-
ditions of unemployment Jackson
vile is reported to have an unemploy-
ed army of some 10000, and the pres
once of the "tin can tourists" who
have been flocking into Florida for
he past two months, from centers
Of unemployment in the north, the
capitalists of Florida are seeking the
further enslavement of their slaves.
Bosses Speak.
As evidence of this fact note the
etter printed below, which was sent
out with other printed matter, under
late of Sept. 8, 1927, by the Florida
employers Association-sinc re-
christened "The Associated Indus
tries of Florida" ~
To the Business Men and Indus
tries of Florida:
Gentlemen: The Florida Fedora
ton of Labor is asking the business
men, industries and politicians of
the state to contribute to the war
chest of organized labor the sum
of S125,000, with which they hope
TO publish the Annual State Labor
Review, spreading the doctrines of
Closed Shop Unionism and to have
a considerable sum left over for
fund to be expended in an endeavor
to elect labor candidates to the next
legislature.
We understand that the State
Bride Fund.
The entire state is now being can
vassed for advertising in the pub
LEGATION mentioned above at $3.50
a page-or for donations from those
who do not care to advertise.
1t seems strange that business
man should be called upon to con-
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thing to which he is fundamentally
opposed and which he knows will
be detriment to his business and
a great drawback to industry and
the general welfare of the state as
a whole These are results which
have been observed time and again
in other states and in many in
stances in Florida.
Closed Shop San Francisco lost
out, two to one, with its Open
Shop competitor. Los Angeles.
San Francisco has finally broken
from union control at a cost of
more than five million dollars, but,
the business men of that city gave
and gave gladly and still give tens
of thousands Of dollars a year for
the work of the associations that
won and are maintaining this in
dustrial freedom
It is generally conceded that one
Of the greatest attractions which
the south has for industry is its
freedom for Closed Shop Unionism!
Florida can i'll afford to allow its
industries to become throttled by
submitting to the Closed Union
Shop and the dictation of radical
leaders and business agents, or by
permitting radical and restrictive,
syndicated, organized labor laws to
be passed.
Through the efforts of this asso-
citation during the last two years,
large number of concerns have
. seen the folly Of supporting the
Closed Union Shop with one hand
and the American-Plan Open Shop
with the other, and are now, not
only saving themselves consider
able sums of money by having dis
continued this practice, but are also
saving such associations as ours
the work and expense of having
to counteract the influence of the
work of the unions and publications
which their donations had helped to
finance.
Uaryy cordi 111y xyourr