The sub., 1943-12-09
(From the QUA News)

nave you ever wondered
 why the international labor
 unions and certain officials of
 various Departments of La
 bor have ganged-up with la
 Dor politicians in a bitter at-
 tempt to destroy independent
 unions? And have you ever
 wondered how the independ-
 ent labor organizations have
 managed to live, even to
 thrive under this persecution :?
 Well, the answer is easy-inde- pendent unions do not need the helping hand of Government and statutory crutches to aid their pro- gresS. Independent unions are the natural and normal way for men to associate themselves together for the purpose of real collective bargaining and genuine self-pro- lection. It is the course that men take of their own free will. It is the only way the workers can man. age their own affairs, and see that their own interests are served rather than the interests of pro- fessional, highly paid leaders.
 With international labor unions democracy" has become merely a word used as a screen for actions and policies as completely auto- cratic as those of any czar or com missar. Many of the leaders of said unions shrink from the prac- tice of democracy as from plague. They know that democracy would destroy them. Without compulsion they could not live.
 Independent labor unions, on the contrary, exist and thrive on de- mocracy. All they need is free dom. They have legitimate scorn for the closed shop; they deteSt compulsory membership, violence and gangster methods, and they have nothing but contempt for the labor politicians who pander to those who use such methods. Some day soon-sooner than many want to admit-the wrath of the great mass of peaceful, independent working men and women and their families is going to catch up with the politicians, Government offici- als and union leaders who have peddled and exploited the work CTS birthright.
 The reason, of course, that inde- pendent unions are distasteful to the international organizations is that workers too often choose the independent union when they are permitted to make a truly free choice. The great, wealthy politi- cally powerful organizations can- not live and compete with the free independent unions. Therefore, they and their political friends set out to smear and to destroy the latter. The "Internationals'' are constantly at work trying to enlist the help of Governments in dis couraging membership by work CTS in unions of their own choos- ing and to force them into inter- national unions and the groups af- fliated with them. They complain that all independent unions are company unions" and "dominat- ed' by employers. That, of course, may mean almost anything. It may mean nothing more than an atti tude of friendship and understand ing and cooperation between the union and the employer; it may mean condition of industrial peace that international unions talk so much of and do so little about.
 The independent worker knows that independent unions are unal- terably opposed to the payment of tribute to any individual for the right to work. They also know that independent unions will in siSt upon their right to be heard and their right to choose their own without compulsion from any source.
 It must be remembered that the real and final sufferers from labor disputes are not the organizers or 4y14 xA .Y !